South Houston and surrounding areas- SPCA $4.00 adoptions !

That is awesome! I get to check out available kitties next weekend...I'm hoping to find a good companion for Bogart. I think he's a little bit depressed...a kitten (not too young) might cheer him up!
 
That is awesome! I get to check out available kitties next weekend...I'm hoping to find a good companion for Bogart. I think he's a little bit depressed...a kitten (not too young) might cheer him up!

We were disappointed. The fee was for animals over 30 pounds, which was OK,and we wanted to adopt a black dog since they're usually the ones most overlooked and first to be put down. We found two we loved, but they were not good with cats. The smaller dogs were precious,but we couldn't afford the $100 adoption fee. We'll keep trying.

Good luck with your kitty adoption;there are tons of cute ones out there!
 
$4? bloody hell. that's WAY too low. :( it needs to be at LEAST $25... ideally no less than $50.

in my mind, if people aren't prepared to shell out $50, and can't or won't find it, it's hard to be sure that they're taking the commitment to adopt seriously. if their new pet needs vet care, it's gonna cost more than $4 to treat them... you know?

in a similar vein, i feel that a group shouldn't be allowed to call themselves anything to do with or similar to 'spca' OR 'shelter' if they're not a No Kill agency. :(
 
I can afford the vet care, because we have an awesome clinic in Houston (SNAP) which has a program for lower income folks,but I cannot afford $100 adoption fees. The Houston SPCA has a a very high kill rate :(.That's the reason I was so excited to adopt from them,but yeah, I have to agree with you for the most part, not to mention the fact that some sicko may come along and take a few"cheap" dogs and do God knows what. I think they're trying to adopt the larger dogs out as opposed to putting so many down,but it does make one worry. Not to say that there are not good low income people out there who love and take good care of their pets,but it does raise some concern.
 
i know what they'd do with them. i also know that they'd be paid more than $4 per dog for many of the things they could do with them. :(

no doubt that low income peeps can and will often do a damned good job of caring for their animals- it's just very easy to find yourself in a position where you have a horrible choice to make, having found out that your animal friend needs unexpected vet care likely to run into the thousands. it's great that you have a clinic near you that helps in that regard. we have a spay neuter clinic in the city near me (no use for us though as you need to prove residence inside city limits!) but i really miss the PDSA type system back in the uk.

i guess part of it is about choices for many people- i've had people say that they want to adopt a cat, but then want the charity that i volunteer for, to pay for their current cat to be fixed, because they can't afford the surgery cost (all our adoptees are fixed at our cost, and we won't adopt to homes where the residents aren't fixed).

when we explain that cats come with unexpected costs attached, and that their new cat may one day need $400 of vet care all at once- and ask how they would feel confident that they could cover that, if they can't cover paying for the spay surgery, then often it becomes rapidly apparent that it's actually more a case that they could find $400 for the spay (they have $400 of credit, and could pay it back at a decent rate if they budgeted, etc), they just don't want to shell out $400, if they could spend it on something else (like a nice cat tree, or a few months worth of cable tv subscriptions) and we'd pick up the tab - in exchange for them 'doing us a favour' and taking an unwanted cat off our hands (!).

the charity that i volunteer for is funded totally by public and company donations though (no government money), is no kill, and it costs more than $200 per cat just to get them adoption-ready (spay/neuter, shots, vet check, etc) so i'm probably biased in that regard- i know that the $100+ we charge in adoption fees enables us to haul the next kitty off death row at a high kill 'shelter', or start working on getting the next litter of feral kittens out from under somebody's back deck, as well as serving as somewhat of a reassurance that the new adopter wouldn't be so likely any time soon to find themselves in a position where they'd fret over the cost of basic vet care, or be reluctant to shell out for it. :D
 
You sound like one amazing human being. Thank you for all you're doing for these babies.I would give a zillion dollars to adopt a kitty or pup if I could. I can't think of many things more important. The number of animals killed each year is mind blowing. I try to network as many as I can;it's staggering to see how many there are!:(
 
The rescue I volunteer with has an adoption fee lower than what it costs us to spay/neuter, and we still get tons of people who complain about how "expensive" the rabbits are.

Yes, and the first time they have to take Bunny to the vet, they will be shocked to find out a standard exam is more than that for a dog or cat.

:(
 
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