City of Nashville, Berrien Co. Animal Shelters partner to offer “Black Fur-Iday” pet adoption event
NASHVILLE, Ga. – The City of Nashville Animal Shelter and Berrien County,Georgia Animal Shelter are dedicated to helping pets find loving homes for the holidays.
Both shelters are offering unique opportunities for pet adoptions in celebration of “Black Fur-Iday.”
“All the adoptions are half off for every single animal in the shelter. Basically just the initiative to kind of empty out the shelter as much as we can for the upcoming holidays, get them in homes. Where they’ll be nice, warm, happy, safe before Christmas. All animals are coming fully vaccinated, microchipped with free registration for life, fixed, and; flea, tick, and heartworm prevention,” said Kayla Lackey, City of Nashville Animal Control Officer & Shelter Director.
Kayla Lackey, Animal Control Officer and Shelter Director for Nashville, Georgia, emphasized the importance of giving every pet a second chance, especially as the number of animals in need of homes continues to rise.
“Here, especially in South Georgia, Berrien County specifically, we are riddled with homeless pets. We’re riddled with dumped animals. Just us, in the past couple of days, we’ve gotten multiple calls on dumped animals. A lot of shelters, especially in South Georgia, they’re not no kill, so they have to euthanize. So the goal is to save those lives so that they aren’t euthanized,” said Lackey.
The Nashville, Georgia, and Berrien County, Georgia Animal Shelters encourage adoption as the safest and most reliable way to provide a loving home for pets and their future owners.
“With adoption, you are literally saving multiple lives. You take a kennel, you empty that kennel that gives a spot to another animal that needs it. It discourages backyard breeding a lot more when people are picking up fully vaccinated, fully fixed pets versus everybody getting the cute puppy from likes, Facebook and stuff, and then they realize all the bills that come with it. The vaccines the dog never got, to spay and neuter. Oh, no, now it’s got puppies. Now I have to get rid of the puppies. We can stop that and have people actually get healthy, adoptable fixed dogs already, we’re not adding the population. We’re adding sickness to the population because a lot of times these people get these puppies and they’ll get them off the side of the road at three or four or five weeks old. They’re sick, they’re riddled with parasites, they end up dying, they end up costing a lot of vet bills. And then people are confused and they’re upset and they could have had a fully healthy, good to go, dog,” said Lackey.
Both shelters work tirelessly to ensure that all animals are well-prepared to transition into their new homes.
“We work with them, we work really hard with them. Most of them are house trained, most of them are crate trained, they’re social with each other. So, you kind of know what you’re getting versus just getting something off the internet and then it’s an issue,” said Lackey.
The “Black Fur-Iday” adoption special is this Friday, November 29th, from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
De’Andra Jacobs reporting.
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