Animal Welfare Professionals

Memphis Animal Services has created an impound acknowledgment form that is a carbon copy. When issuing a summons on scene, we give this form to the owner at time of seizure, where they agree to come in and pay impound fees during the first 72 hours (our legal stray hold) to then "lay claim" that they want to get the pet back.

If they do not come in by that deadline and they signed this form, we considered the pet abandoned and can move forward with an alternate outcome. This has drastically reduced our length of stay for court case holds.
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