Leon County and Thomasville Humane Societies share the right — and wrong — ways to rehome a pet
Click the photo above to watch our interview with WCTV, describing a recent case of animal abandonment at our office.
Surrendering a pet is often a difficult and emotional process and finding placement for a stray animal can be stressful.
We’ve put together this guide to help community members who are trying to do right by animals and help them find a soft spot to land – responsibly.
While we stretch to save as many as we can, our intake is limited based on space, resources, and available foster homes. While we wish the answer could always be yes when we receive intake inquiries, unfortunately we’re not always able to assist.
This link includes other ways to rehome animals while putting the animal’s best interest at heart!
Know you’re going to have to surrender on a certain date? Call City of Tallahassee – Animal Service Center at 850-891-2950 to schedule a surrender appointment. This is the City Animal Shelter by Tom Brown Park on Easterwood Drive. Do not wait until the last second – give them the courtesy of letting them know your limitations so they can plan for the arrival of the animal. Then, you can use that time period to exhaust other avenues of rehoming!
Contact rescues, (email photos and information to either cats@leoncountyhumane.org or dogs@leoncountyhumane.org for our intake inquiries,) utilize your vet’s office to post flyers, post on social media, and do everything in your power to find a home and keep that animal out of the shelter. If you succeed, call the shelter to cancel that surrender appointment.
If everywhere else is full and no one is equipped to adopt, then that’s why the shelter exists – as a community resource and safety net. While the shelter should not be your first stop for surrendering, it is a much safer option for an animal than leaving them unattended or abandoning them. Many fear the shelter as being an unsafe place for animals, but the people working at the shelter are people just like us – there to help animals and their community. They rarely euthanize for space and work hard to provide humane care for animals and help them out into loving homes.
They need the support of their community just like we do to save lives. It takes a village to save animals and do right by them, and through education and teamwork we can keep animals safe and euthanasia numbers low.
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