Programs
SAVE THE KITTENS PROGRAM
All the cats are spayed/neutered before adoption, and have had part or all of the feline distemper series. Cats four months and older also have their rabies shot. Please read the card on each cat's cage at their location for series and booster shot requirements.
Due to the limited number of volunteers we have, and the need to have a professional assess the kitten's health and determine if they need veterinary care, we don't take kittens directly from the public. We go to the county shelter and coordinate foster home placements for any new kittens there. If you have kittens to give up, please take them to the county animal shelter on Airport Road in Martell, and we will work on finding foster homes for them from there. If you have a mother cat with the kittens, please wait if possible until the kittens are weaned (eating canned or dry food and no longer nursing, approximately 4 weeks of age) before taking them to the shelter, as we have a very limited number of foster homes that can bottle feed newborn kittens, and the longer the kittens nurse with their mother, the better their immune systems become thanks to the benefits of mother's milk (just like humans).We need more foster homes!
Both for bottle feeding moms and for weaned kittens, or for a mom cat with a litter. Call Amador County Animal Control at 223-6378 if you can foster even one litter; it would be a big help. We get our kittens from the shelter as they come in, but we need homes to place them in temporarily. Fostering is a real joy, and is a great summer vacation project for a responsible teenager (with parental permission). A-PAL and the animal shelter supplies all food, cat litter, and can authorize veterinary treatment and medicine if needed for your foster babies.SPAY & NEUTER PROGRAM
No excuses...no littering!
Every year we have a kitten season, which runs from March to as late as November depending on weather. The Amador County Animal Shelter houses and takes care of as many kittens as space permits, and many people in our community at animal control, the veterinary clinics, the humane society, and shelter volunteers work very hard to try to give these previous lives a chance to be adopted and find a forever family.
Even with all of us banding together and working as a team, using both the county and humane society financial resources, the sad truth is many kittens will have their tiny lives cut short due to being separated from their mother too early, exposure to diseases from other cats and kittens, being exposed to the elements and having their core body temperature drop too low before being found, etc. It is not desirable or natural for infants of any species to be separated from their mothers and grow up in small cages! This needless suffering can be ended if we just spay and neuter our pets, and ideally widen the net if we can to include strays and ferals on our properties. A-PAL has financial aid programs to help low income cat owners, and also has certificates to offset the surgery cost of spay/neuters for both dogs and cats that belong to any Amador County resident."ADOPT A PET" PET ADOPTION PROGRAM
The Amador County Animal Shelter is responsible for control and adoption of all stray and owner turn-in animals within the county. We are working the adoption end of the process harder with each day and beginning to see daylight through the increased adoptions that are occuring.
County Animal Control
Monday - Saturday
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
CLOSED DAILY 1:00 PM TO 2:00 PM FOR LUNCH
If you live in Amador County …
A-PAL has a program to meet your needs!
FREE FERAL CAT SPAY OR NEUTER
Rent a trap, trap the cat and call a participating veterinarian to make an appointment. Take the cat in the trap to the vet, pick the cat up, release to the same location, feed and shelter the cat. One ear will be clipped to identify the cat as spay/neutered.
FREE DOG & CAT SPAY/NEUTER FOR Medi-Cal recipients
Call a participating veterinarian and inform them that you wish to participate in this program. Be prepared to show your Medi-Cal card and to pay for any additional services you require.
FREE PITBULL DOG SPAY OR NEUTER – For Amador County Residents only.Call Jim 296-6856 for details.
ANIMAL SHELTER MOM CAT FREE SPAY
Customers who surrender a litter of kittens at the animal shelter will be given a green free spay certificate for the mother cat. Instructions tell them to call a participating veterinarian to make an appointment to spay their cat. Participants must be Amador County residents and must give their certificate to the clinic at the time of surgery.
SAVE THE KITTENS
Kittens and cats will be removed from the shelter, spayed or neutered, receive their first shot and go to adoption locations.
BARN CAT PROGRAM
Cats deemed appropriate for this program will be adopted out after paperwork is completed at the Feed Barn and returned to the shelter. The participants will not be allowed to pick the cats, these are chosen by animal control personnel. Linda Fazzio is the contact person for this program 223-7713.
SHELTER DOG HEARTWORM TREATMENT
Adoptable shelter dogs are tested for heartworm. If the test is positive, A-PAL is contacted for approval and funding is given for treatments.
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For financial aid in spaying/neutering
your pet(s)...
PRINT - the certificate of your choice - dog or cat:
CALL the participating veterinarian of your choice listed on the form. Be prepared to show proof of Amador County residency
PRESENT the certificate for the specified dollar reduction at the time of payment.
Certificates may also be picked up at:
Amador County Animal Control - 12340 Airport Road, Jackson, Ca. 95642
The Feed Barn Country Store - 11261 Prospect Drive, Jackson, Ca. 95642
NOTE - the amount paid for cats is more than for dogs because we continue
to have alarming numbers of cats entering our shelter.
PLEASE!
SPAY/NEUTER YOUR PETS TO PREVENT OVERPOPULATION AND THE RESULTING
SUFFERING!!
