Thanks to a grant, the Hardin County Animal Shelter is providing free distemper parvo vaccinations for dogs and feline distemper vaccinations for cats.
These vaccines will be dealt out to pets of county residents at the shelter’s annual rabies clinic from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 7 at the Hardin County Fairgrounds.
Shelter director Mike McNutt said they also plan on having smaller clinics throughout the county.
While the vaccines provided in the grant are free to residents, the rabies vaccinations are not.
McNutt and Deputy Director Sharon Kelly decided to apply for the grant after recently attending the Best Friends National Conference in Dallas which was presented by Petco Love, the granter and nonprofit arm of Petco. The goal of the grant is to reduce preventable diseases.
Kelly said they then partnered with Petco Love, applied for the grant and they received it for the first time.
These vaccinations can only be used by the shelter on animals that are owned by residents and not ones housed at the shelter, McNutt said.
While the county does have great veterinarians, McNutt said the cost and demand of pet health care is too much to take care of everyone’s pets.
“A lot of times some people can’t afford vet health. So they get rid of their pets just because they can’t afford to keep them healthy,” Kelly said.
At the conference, they learned shelters ought to aim for a 15% pet retention rate, which is when pets are adopted and stay with their owners. McNutt said the rate so far this year is 22%.
“I have to say Hardin County is at the forefront of trying to make things better all the way around,” he said.
However, the shelter is crowded. McNutt said animal control officers do everything they can to return an animal to its owner.
“We’re full. We’re busting at the seams,” McNutt said.
To combat overcrowding, the shelter, as of Friday, is waiving the adoption fee for dog adoptions who are five months and older.
Ultimately, McNutt said if the general animal population is healthy across the county, diseases such as parvo, for example, won’t spread through the shelter thanks to the free vaccines that were given to them by the grant.
“If we’re making our animals healthy (in the county), the animals that do actually have to come to the shelter should be healthier because of this,” McNutt said.
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