Contra Costa Animal Services (CCAS) will be offering $5 adoptions of all animals on Friday, December 13 and Saturday, December 14, as part of the Bissell Pet Foundation’s “Holiday Hope” adoption campaign.
The goal of this promotion is to bring holiday hope to homeless pets in Contra Costa County by finding loving homes for them through this promotion.
Through this partnership with the Bissell Pet Foundation, CCAS will join 110 shelters in 22 different states offering reduced fee adoptions to adopt as many pets possible this weekend.
“To permanently end the homeless pet problem, everyone across the country needs to understand that there are beautiful, worthy animals in shelters who should be the first choice when bringing a pet into your home,” said Cathy Bissell, Founder of the Bissell Pet Foundation. “You will get the most loving pet who will literally change your life because it’s so grateful to be loved. I want every person to know they can be part of the solution if they adopt a shelter pet.”
The $5 adoption special includes most fees associated with adopting an animal, including: adoption fees, spay/neuter, micro-chipping and vaccination (avg. cost of adoption is between $104-$284). However, new adopters will be required to license their animal.
Interested adopters can take advantage of this free adoption promotion by visiting CCAS’ Martinez and Pinole adoption centers to meet our animals and adopt their new family member. To view available pets online, please visit www.ccasd.org.
CCAS Adoption Locations
Martinez Adoption Center – 4800 Imhoff Pl., Martinez
Pinole Adoption Center – 910 San Pablo Ave., Pinole
If the $100 adoption fee was the only thing stopping you from getting a pet, then you’re probably not ready to have a pet…
Their hearts are in the right place but I don’t think giving animals away for almost free is the right thing to do either.
This is a complex issue. Sad….
Having worked with a number of people involved in animal rescue, my understanding of this practice is that a lot of these animals come back at one point or another
Let me tell you a little story. About 10 years ago while traveling in Namibia we visited the Cheetah Conservation Fund center. Namibia is part of the cheetah’s native range but their numbers are dwindling due to the ranchers killing them to protect their flocks of sheep and goats The founder of this place had the idea of giving the ranchers a kind of dog that was used in the middle east to protect their livestock. The idea was that the dogs would integrate into the sheep and goat flocks and by instinct would protect the flock. They offered the dogs free to the local ranchers. In the beginning it was a miserable failure. It seems that since the dogs were free, the ranchers didn’t value them much and they would just die from malnutrition and disease and not keep the cheetahs away from the herds.
So the Cheetah center stopped giving away the dogs and only offered them for sale. The sales arrangement was made so that the price of the dog was actually covered by the free food made available from the cheetah center. And there was training for the ranchers and the dogs. The program has been thriving ever since. The difference is that the ranchers have a stake in the dog and take good care of them. Also since the rancher needs to bring his dog in to get the free food (and a medical checkup) dogs and ranchers are doing much better. The dogs are healthy and can chase away the cheetahs, the ranger feels connected and proud of this valuable dog and the center is thriving and the cheetah population has stabilized. There’s a lesson in there somewhere I think.
Click on my new pic and you’ll see that I have only ONE! white whisker…how cool is THAT!!
Meow, y’all
I hope by now handsome sweetheart Bubs is in his forever home.
Never fear. Friends up in Oregon tell me that our local animal shelter actually flies critters up there (from Contra Costa shelters) to local Humane Societies where locals can’t wait to take them home. The Humane Society is very active there.
Thank God they are flown instead of like that stupid woman driving 24 dogs cross country crammed in a van only to be stolen in Oakland, the worst place possible in the Bay Area. What kind rescue person does that? Saying she is in animal transport for a business. There should be laws prohibiting creepy people like her cramming animals in a van. Those poor dogs were a mess.
So glad. Empty the shelters give these pets a chance. Just because you dont have extra money to pay for a pet, does not mean you don’t have a good heart full of love for one lucky pet. Money does not a good person make. The county also needs low cost animal care. I mean free care.
You don’t need to be rich to own a pet. Just smart. Put aside $50.00 a month for an emergency fund. And don’t touch that money. Let it build up.
How can you expect veterinary care to be free. It cost more than $200,000 to get your DVM.
With an emergency vet visit running a minimum of $400, I have been priced out of pet ownership. I’ve had pets most of my life, seven cats, but I can no longer afford the vet bills.
Pets are expensive. They need routine snd sometimes emergency medical help. Don’t take on the responsibility of pet ownership if you can’t take care of them in an emergency or illness. I appreciate reducing adoption fees but animal services should vet new owners in their understanding of pet responsibilities and medical needs.
My last sick cat cost $3000 for 3 more weeks of life,and I would have spent it all if she hadn’t died.I was not ready to say goodbye on the first visit when they told me from their experience, this is not going to end well,and I should think about having the cat-I stopped them right there and said”no!”.
I would love to have another dog but the vet cost is a concern. For that reason, I will not be getting another dog. I want 3 dogs but I guess I will have none.
Buying the dog is the inexpensive part of the pet ownership experience. Then factor in the annual check up and detailing at $250 a pop, plus special food to address their special dietary needs, pharmaceuticals, and then of course those final expenses 10 years out. At the end, we all say, “Never again”; it’s too heart breaking, and too expensive.
Then a year goes by, and we get another one. Why? Because they make our lives and family richer. They are worth it.