Hi Candy,
We do not necessarily deny someone for adoption if their pet is unaltered. It just limits what they would be allowed to adopt. For example, we would never send a female to a home with an unaltered male. We do ask the potential adopters why their pet is unaltered. A lot of the time it is because it is a large breed dog and their vet won't do it until they are a certain age. We talk to them about the importance of spay/neuter and try to get them signed up for our low cost clinic. If the people seem shady or just haven't done it because they don't want to, then we may deny them. If the people mention breeding or wanting their female to have a litter first, we would deny that. But if the people are nice, cooperative, and have a reason or are willing to come to our clinic, we don't deny the adoption.
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Erin Robinson
Foster Coordinator
Licking County Humane Society
OH
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-28-2024 09:35 AM
From: Candy Sullivan
Subject: Cat Adoptions to People With Unfixed Animals
If a person fills out our adoption screening form and have an unfixed cat or dog, we have routinely denied the adoption until their personal pet is fixed. Recently, we are revisiting this because there are instances when the vet has instructed them not to fix the animal until it's a certain age (i.e. 15 months for large dogs, six months for kittens.) We do pediatric spay/neuters (2 lb. and up. We've received some pushback on this and are considering an addendum for when their pet is not old enough to be fixed, but to enable them to schedule their pet and take home one of our cats or kittens. We would appreciate some guidance on this, as well as verbiage. Thank you.
#AdoptionsandAdoptionPrograms
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Candy Sullivan
Managing Director
Candy's Cats, Inc.
FL
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