Correction to Newspaper Article

The St. Paul Journal recently did a story on the shelter, very nice, except we do not have any reserved funds for a building, the only funds we have reserved is around eight hundred dollars for spaying and neutering of dogs. We had a number of dogs spayed and as they are adopted schedule the next dog for a spay or neuter as we can afford it. 

We will start fund raising for a building and set up a building fund once we have a location to put it. 

As you may have noticed the on line form for the pet registry is not working at this time, we are working on it and hope to have an online form soon., in the meantime a paper form is available at the shelter, or can be emailed to you and returned the same way. Thank you for your patience in this matter., 

Good news, Darby has been adopted and so has Ivan. Unfortunately we are at capacity again as new pets arrive as fast as they are adopted out, sometimes faster and we have to turn many away.

Pet Registry Service

You can now register your pet's information with the St. Paul Animal Shelter. 

This is a free service we are offering to reduce stress both on the pet's people and on the pets themselves.

It works like this: 

• You fill out a form with your information and up to four pet's information including up to three pictures of each pet. (Dogs, Cats, and Other types of pets) (You can register more than four pets but need a new form for each group of four). 
• All information is kept confidential and entered in a secure database.
• If your pet ever goes missing you just call the shelter and we pull up the pictures to match with any found pet calls. (Much more accurate than trying to visualize a description over the phone). 
• If someone calls with a matching pet they have found we then (depending on your preference) call you to call them, give them a number you have approved to call you, or can even have them meet you at the shelter to return your pet home.
• It also makes it quicker for us if a pet is brought to the shelter, we can match the found pet to a picture in the database and voila your pet is back home. 
• Right now we can only do paper but are working on an online form that hopefully will be available soon on our website.

This service also include a no charge pick up of your pet if it is picked up the same day it is brought here and is in the database with accurate information and picture.

What do you think about this service? Do you think we should try to get other shelters involved in offering a pet registry?

One other item of note: Although no personal information would ever be given out the statistics of how many and what types of pets are in our community and surrounding area could be released and maybe we could finally get an off leash dog park and other pet services in our area, if we can show the numbers and a need for it?