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Home for the Holidays Pet Adoption Campaign Kicks Off!
Nov 28, 2007 MEDIA CONTACT Ria Brown, Lee County Animal Services FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fort Myers, Florida, November 28, 2007-Lee County Animal Services will join more than 2,000 pet shelters and adoption centers across the country for Home 4 the Holidays 2007, a national event organized to raise awareness of the joys of owning shelter-adopted pets. Organizers hope to link more than 350,000 dogs, cats, puppies, kittens, and other companion pets with loving, adoptive families. Lee County Animal Services will launch its local campaign on December 1st and by December 31st hopes to place 300 pets from its facility in life-long homes. Pets adopted during the month of December will go to their new homes with a special gift in addition to the services normally provided with each adoption. The adoption fee will be reduced to $50 for dogs (normally $65) and $40 for cats (normally $50). The fee includes spay/neuter surgery, vaccinations appropriate for each animal's age, flea treatment, worming, heartworm test for dogs six months or older, feline aids and leukemia test for cats, a county license for pets three months or older, collar, training DVD, nationally registered Microchip Pet ID, and a special gift pack that includes toys and treats. The total adoption package is valued at more than $400. The Home 4 the Holidays adoption campaign is a departure from the traditional practice of shelters suspending pet adoptions during the holidays, which are normally very hectic. In the past it was considered a bad time to introduce a new pet into the household. However, many shelters euthanize more animals during this period due to overcrowding while missing out on the season when most people seek to add a companion animal to their family. Adoption hours at Lee County Animal Services are 10 am to 4:00 pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 10 am to 6 pm on Tuesday, and 10 am to 3:00 pm on Saturday. For more information call 432-2083. Pictures of pets available for adoption can be viewed online at www.LeeLostPets.com. Lee County Animal Services provides animal control services throughout Lee County and operates an animal shelter to house stray and abandoned domestic animals. Animal intake exceeds 16,000 annually. It also administers low-cost spay/neuter programs, animal cruelty investigation, education, rabies control, and bite case management programs. The shelter is located off Six Mile Cypress Parkway next to the Lee County Sheriff's Dept.
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