A-PAL HUMANE SOCIETY

We aim to reduce shelter intake, to promote planned parenthood for pets, to spay and neuter our feral cat colonies, to find appropriate homes for special needs cats and dogs, and to help pet owners in need in our community.

Our strategies to accomplish our goals include:

-working with our t&r feral cat colonies to lower birthing rates, disease rates, and implement colony managers to watch the colony progress
- providing spay and neuter services to amador county residents with low income
-providing spay and neuter services to amador county residents with pit bulls (who are one of the highest instances of shelter intakes).
- working hand in hand with Amador Animal Control to adopt out any animals who are in need of homes.
- providing care to special needs animals who require the right forever home
- fostering kittens
- promoting humane animal treatment to our communities

A-PAL Humane Society has worked with shelter staff, volunteers and the public to keep our communities animals safe and happy, and we will continue to do so in the future. A-PAL has already accomplished many positive changes for our County and will positively impact our community for years to come.

So far we have:
- assisted county workers at the shelter with dog walking as well as cat and dog adoptions.
- initiated a certificate program to assist residents with spay/neuter costs
- transported pets out of area to rescue groups
- the Save the Kittens program was started with kittens being removed from the shelter to foster, spay/neutered, given age appropriate shots, dewormed and placed in retail locations for adoption.
- A-PAL offers the public free spay/neuter for feral cats that they trap and take to one of our local veterinarians.
- the Community Cat program was begun with feral cats that were turned in to the shelter in traps. These cats were previously held for 72 hours and then euthanized. The cats are now spay/neutered, rabies vaccinated and returned to their colony, or if appropriate, placed in barn or pet homes.
- the Barn Cat program was started to adopt, at a reduced price rather than euthanize, those cats deemed "unadoptable" due to their age, appearance or demeanor.
- A-PAL worked with county staff, the Chamber of Commerce and the Amador Community Foundation to build a new shelter. A-PAL was also instrumental in hiring new animal loving, professional shelter staff.
- a free dog and cat spay/neuter program was started for low-income, Medi-Cal recipients and the County agreed to fund this program, with A-PAL administering and advertising it. The goal was to reduce shelter intake.
-252 dogs have been successfully adopted from our K9 Second Chance program by 2014
- helping special needs animals with our Santa Fund. This fund has assisted more than 120 animals through 2015