Staff at the Louisa County Animal Shelter are telling people who find missing pets in that locality do what they can to help locate owners because the facility is full.
“In the past, it was standard practice for lost pets to be brought into the Shelter,” reads a press release sent out this morning. “However, it is now known animals have a much better chance of getting back home if some actions are taken in the neighborhoods where they’re found, before they are brought to a shelter.”
The release claims that nationally, 17 percent of pets who enter a shelter find their way home.
“But when a pet is kept in a safe place in the neighborhood where they were found, that rate jumps to 70 percent,” the release continues.
Anyone in Louisa County who finds a lost pet should fill out an online form to report the missing animal. And anyone who is missing a pet is asked to review a list of strays on the shelter’s website
Additionally, shelter officials are asking people to rehome their own pets rather than bring them to the facility. They offer these resources:
All adoptions are currently free and the shelter is open at 18 Sacred Heart Avenue in Mineral Tuesday through Saturday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.
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