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Contributed by:
Planned Pethood
P.O. Box 178
Swanton, OH 43558
http://www.plannedpethood.org/
Volunteers reach people advertising "free" puppies and kittens in
newspapers by offering to help place the litters in an adoption program
as long as the person allows their adult animals to be altered. If the
adoption program is full, they ask the person to hold the litters, and
they will alter them when they are old enough and provide help in
finding them homes.
What You'll Do
- Someone to scour the "free" puppy or kitten classified ads in local daily papers and call them
- Funds to perform spay/neuter surgeries
- A clinic to take the pets for their surgeries
- A program for placing animals in adoptive homes
- Help transporting the animals
- Cards to distribute with the organization/clinic phone number
What You'll Need
- Look in the classified section of the local papers each day and see
if litters of puppies or kittens are being offered for free or low
cost.
- Call the people who placed the ads and offer to help fix the
litters and their parents. If you have space, your organization can
offer to take the litters into your adoption program. If not, you can
ask the people to hold the litters until they are old enough and you
will help fix.
- Help set up appointments and provide transportation if necessary.
- Follow up!
What You'll Want to Know
- Many people are grateful for the help! They didn't want to be in
this position with litters of animals to place and are happy to know
services are available.
- It can really spread by word of mouth so be prepared! Litter
Patrol took into their adoption program 184 puppies and 600 kittens in
2006. They also altered 39 adult dogs and 174 adult cats.
- It's important to set aside some funds up front to get this
program started. Planned Pethood earmarked $6,000 from a Paw-Hoorah
auction event.
- In just three years, Planned Pethood is seeing a decrease in
the number of puppies listed in classified ads and the county is
beginning to see a decline in intakes—signs of success!
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