Live in Eaton County Michigan?
Need help with your pet? Contact us!
Every week there are people who gradually or suddenly find it impossible to continue to care for one or more pets. There can be many reasons for this: Some pet owners become ill, or advancing age makes pet care more challenging, or a family has to move and can't take the pet(s), or dozens of other things can happen. Sometimes a pet changes personality and becomes unsocial, or that tiny cute puppy all-too-soon becomes a 100 pound bundle of unmanageable energy. And we know that the current economic climate has put unaccustomed financial pressures on many families.
Only an animal that is a "Vicious Animal" or that is fatally "sick, injured or otherwise suffering" should be voluntarily turned in at Eaton County Animal Control. Some animal welfare facilities have a tendency to euthanize animals prematurely, animals that could be lovingly adopted.
If you have a pet that you can no longer take care of, because of finances or for any other reason, please do not take it to Eaton County Animal Control. Contact D.A.W.N. or H.E.A.R.T. or some other local animal welfare group and we will try our best to help you find resources so that you can keep your pet or have it lovingly cared for !!! Whatever your situation, you will be treated with respect, and with respect for your privacy, and we will try to help you with your problem as quickly as we can get to it.
Please don't expect that we are going to give you money, because that isn't going to happen; but we will try hard to locate for you an emergency supply of pet food, some basic veterinary care, or an adopter to give your pet a loving new home.
If you do not live in Eaton County Michigan, it's hard to tell you where to go for assistance.
The best advice that we can come up with started with a suggestion from Debbie Schutt of the Michigan Pet Fund Alliance:
(1) Try to find an animal welfare group in your area that does not operate a shelter, and ask them for their opinion of which shelter would best care for the pet that you can no longer keep; or
(2) contact local shelters and ask them about the percentage of animals that they manage to adopt out compared to the percentage of animals that they euthanize; or
(3) check the statewide animal shelter statistics at the Michigan Department of Agriculture, which supervises every animal shelter in the State, at
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mda/Michigan_Animal_Shelter_Activity_Reports_2009_319597_7.pdf
You can reach D.A.W.N. by one of the following methods, listed DEFINITELY IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE.
We hate talking on the phone, so you are definitely going to get our
positive attention with E-mail or a Text Message.
However you contact us, please give us your E-mail address if possible, because your response will be faster if we can get back
to you by E-mail.
(Small operation, easily overwhelmed if the traffic gets heavy)
1. E-MAIL -- talk2us@eaton-dawn.org
2. TEXT MESSAGE -- 517-648-9169
3. Voice Phone -- 517-648-9169
D.A.W.N.'s Webmaster is Larry@eaton-dawn.org -- Thank you for reporting technical problems that you find here.
