Shown right here is an adoptable cat on the Ohio County Animal Shelter. The shelter is on the brink of host rabies vaccination clinics for dogs and cats at numerous places between July 1-11. The pictures are $8 per pet. (Photo offered)
The Ohio County Animal Shelter has introduced that, as soon as once more this summer time, it can provide its annual rabies vaccination clinics for dogs and cats.
This 12 months’s clinics begin July 1 and run by way of July 11 at numerous places throughout the county. Wendy Neubauer, shelter supervisor, stated rabies vaccinations are required by legislation for individuals’s pets.
The shelter hosts the clinics to make getting their canine or cat a vaccination extra handy and reasonably priced. The pictures are $8 per animal. There isn’t any residency requirement to attend a clinic.
“It’s mandatory by law. Every animal must have a vaccine, and it’s for their safety too,” she stated.
Neubauer stated there isn’t any remedy for the illness, which is why the vaccinations are required. Wild animals, similar to raccoons and bats, are recognized to be carriers of rabies.
“The vaccine is a three-year shot. If they don’t know if their pet had it, it will be their one year and after that it will be a three-year shot,” she famous.
Neubauer stated dogs should be leashed and cats held in carriers whereas attending the clinic. The clinics can be held from 5-7 p.m. on the next dates:
– July 1, Madison Elementary School;
– July 2, Ritchie Elementary School;
– July 3, Warwood Elementary School;
– July 5, West Liberty Elementary School;
– July 8, Woodsdale Elementary School;
– July 9, Wheeling City-County Building;
– July 10, Valley Grove Community Center; and
– July 11, Bridge Street Middle School.
Neubauer estimated that the shelter’s clinics have vaccinated between 500 and 600 pets yearly. She thanked the native veterinarians for volunteering their time to vaccinate the pets. They embrace Drs. Debbie Shondrick, Karl Yurko and Pamela Harrold.
