Lafayette, La- The Animal Aid for Vermilion Area and Lafayette Animal Shelter are reducing normal dog and cat adoption fees to hopefully find loving homes for animals at the shelters. Both shelters are urging people to adopt or foster a pet due to them taking in more animals.
The need for people to adopt or foster animals at local shelters is at an all-time high. Both shelters tell me they are trying everything they can to find the animals forever homes and not euthanize them due to overcapacity.
Animal Aid for Vermilion Area has a great success rate when taking in animals and finding them homes.
"We've just recently have been confronted with a euthanizing."
After eight years, they had to euthanize a dog named peanut due to the shelter being crowded.
Volunteer, Macie Zoble is pleading for people to come out and rescue or even foster a dog, as they are stuck with possibly having to euthanize twenty more dogs. "It is extremely difficult for us to hold and move that many animals. We are in a depressed, depress plea for foster homes or we are going to see what the entire community doesn't want."
Zoble wants people to know that even if they cannot rescue an animal... fostering would be a big help. Currently, they only have about ten foster families, and they need more.
"From anywhere from two weeks to maybe about two or three months. We financially provide everything. We back these dogs heartworm treatment vaccinations. Food if you need," says Zoble.
"All these babies need a home, please come adopt."
Lafayette Animal Shelter, which also has a great track record of not euthanizing animals, is faced with the same problem.
Adoption coordinator Lynn Bourque says they are looking for homes for both cats and dogs in the shelter. "It's very important with the shelter near compacity that this fee waived event happened today and tomorrow. It's critical in getting the animals placed."
As kitten season is getting closer, Bourque hopes to see that many are soon adopted or fostered. "Full of mamas and babies and newborn kittens that are found without their moms. It's critical for us to have foster families to bottle feed and to help with special needs."
All animals up for adoption will be spayed or neutered, microchipped, and will have all current vaccinations.
If you're thinking about welcoming an animal into your home, consider rescuing or fostering it until the shelter can find the animal a forever home, be sure to contact the shelters.
If you would like to help, you can contact the shelter and ask for Debbie Garrot at 337-643-3160.
The Animal Aid for Vermilion Area is need:
- volunteers
- Farmer's Market Fundraiser people to help man the poboys stand.
- Photogs for Shelter Saturday
You don't need experience, but have to be over eighteen years old.
Lafayette Animal Shelter
410 Dugas Rd, Lafayette, LA 70507
