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It's Kitten and Puppy Season - Find Your Best Friend For Half Off This Weekend

Kitten and puppy season has arrived at Fulton County Animal Services. Find your best friend for half-off this weekend!

The Fulton County Animal Services (FCAS) shelter is beginning to hear the pitter patter of little paws – and lots of them.  It’s the time of year known as “kitten and puppy season,” when animal shelters and rescues across the country see an influx of kittens and puppies that need homes.  During the spring and summer months, many of Fulton County’s smallest residents will end up at the shelter needing medical care, food and forever homes.  To bring in more adopters, FCAS is offering half-off all shelter animals, including puppies and kittens, from May 10 to May 12.                                                                            

“Puppy and kitten season starts at the beginning of spring and continues through the end of summer, and it’s not uncommon to get multiple litters on the same day,” shelter director Lara Hudson. “We hope that our half-off promotion will bring in more adopters to adopt some of these babies.”

Donated Items Needed

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The shelter is also asking the community to help by donating items or volunteering as fosters.  “It takes the whole community to help give these animals their best possible chance,” said Hudson. “So if you’re thinking about getting a pet this summer, please foster or adopt from our shelter.” 

Items needed include:  puppy and kitten bottles, formula and food, snuggle safe warmers, wire or plastic crates and puppy pads.  These items can be dropped off at the front desk of FCAS.   

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Spay or Nueter for A Healthier Pet 

Ms. Hudson says the most important thing anyone can do to decrease the number of puppies and kittens brought into the shelter is to spay or neuter their pet.  “If everyone spayed or neutered their pet, puppy and kitten season wouldn’t exist,” she says.  “LifeLine Animal Project, the nonprofit that manages FCAS, has two clinics that offer monthly low-cost spaying and neutering to the public, and if people can’t afford it, they will help them find resources to get it done for free.” 

In addition to preventing unwanted litters, there are many benefits to fixing your pet, including reducing:   the risk of certain cancers and other diseases, the tendency to fight with other animals, spraying (marking objects with a spray of urine), howling, escaping, and other troublesome behaviors.    

LifeLine Animal Project is the largest low-cost spay/neuter resource in the region, and the provider for more than 50 area shelters, rescue groups, and spay/neuter assistance programs. Since 2002, they have performed more than 55,000 spay/neuter surgeries.

For more information on fostering or adopting an animal from FCAS, please contact. Kerry Moyers-Horton at kmoyershorton@fultonanimalservices.com.  To learn more about LifeLine’s spay/neuter clinics, please visit:  http://www.lifelineanimal.org/spay-neuter.

About Fulton County Animal Services

Managed by LifeLine Animal Project, Fulton County Animal Service’s mission is to provide a humane environment for Fulton County’s homeless pets while placing them into loving, permanent homes, and to end pet overpopulation by promoting spay/neuter, advocating for life-saving public policy, increasing public awareness of homeless pets and educating the community about responsible pet ownership.  To learn more, visit www.fultonanimalservices.com.

About LifeLine Animal Project

LifeLine Animal Project helps prevent unwanted pet litters through low-cost spay/neuter, helps make pet care affordable through low-cost and free vaccine clinics, saves the lives of special needs shelter animals through our rehabilitation facility, and saves feral cats through our trap-neuter-return program.  As the managing organization for Fulton County Animal Services, LifeLine is making Atlanta a lifesaving community. For more information on LifeLine Animal Project, please visit www.lifelineanimal.org.

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