Protect Your Pet

At the Kearney Area Animal Shelter we understand that your companion animal is family and we want to help you keep him or her safe. Follow these tips to ensure that your companion lives a long and healthy life.

• Take your animal in for a Veterinarian check-up once a year. Your Vet will be able to give you individualized advice on keeping him healthy and detect any possible problems early on.
• Keep your companion’s vaccinations current. Vaccinations are an important piece in protecting your animal from diseases.
• Keep your cat indoors at all times. Indoor cats live longer because they are not exposed to the disease, illness and predatory animals of the outside world.
• Have your companion spayed or neutered. An altered animal is less likely to stray from home and become injured. Spaying and neutering also reduces the risk of some cancers.

• Read more: Protect Your Pet

Microchip Your Pet!

It doesn’t take more than a second – a door left open while you bring in the groceries, a child running through the gate leaving it unlatched, or a neighbor at your door – and your pet is gone.

Some pets don’t get far, others do find their way home, but for the millions of other unidentifiable pets that go missing each year the chances of a happy re-union are not good. Less than a quarter of all lost and abandoned pets that are brought to animal welfare organizations each year are ever re-united with their families. Why? Because the animals are not identifiable, they have lost their collars or tags or, their tattoo is not legible. There is only one truly permanent form of animal identification – microchipping.

Stop in and get your pet microchipped today!  It takes only a few minutes and costs just $40 plus tax.