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Animal Adoption Center opens
Published March 3, 2009
The new DeKalb County Animal Adoption Center is now open for business.
Fort Payne Mayor Bill Jordan offered congratulations and thanks to the DeKalb County Commission.
“On behalf of the city of Fort Payne, I would like to thank the commission for all of their hard work, and we look forward to working together on this,” Jordan said. “It’s going to be a great success.”
The center started taking animals on Monday, and Director Leslie Johnson expects the facility to fill up quickly.
“I’m sure we will fill up soon,” Johnson said. “The first few weeks will be overwhelming.”
The facility features 44 holding kennels and a room for cats.
“We also have a meet-and-greet room for adopters to meet their potential pet,” Johnson said.
Even though the center will have to euthanize animals to control overcrowding, DeKalb County Commissioner Brant Craig said that is not the plan.
“Our main objective is to adopt these animals out,” Craig said. “We want to euthanize the least amount we possibly can.”
Johnson said as animals are brought in, they will be evaluated for adoption.
“We look for animals that have a good personality and a good temperament,” Johnson said. “We will keep the animals we feel have a good chance of being adopted until they are adopted, so we have to be very selective in our decisions.”
Animals aren’t the only ones that will be evaluated but also potential adopters.
Those wanting to adopt an animal from the center will have to fill out an application before taking home an animal.
Some of the information the applicant will have to provide includes references, why he or she wants to adopt an animal, how the animal will live and information on any pets the applicant already owns.
The fee for adopting an animal from the center is $75, which includes deworming, heartworm testing, feline leukemia and immunodeficiency virus testing, rabies vaccine, first vaccinations for puppies, first vaccinations for dogs, basic grooming, spay or neuter and inserting microchips in the animal.
“Each animal that is adopted from the center will have a micro-chip implanted in them,” Johnson said. “We will also offer it as a service to people that would like to bring their family pets in to be micro-chipped.”
The facility will also take donations.
“We’ll take food, blankets and toys,” Johnson said.
The facility will take animals from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will be open for adoptions from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday through Friday.
For more information, call the center at 304-0474.
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