Wanna Save Lives?
FACT: Each day 70,000 puppies and kittens are born.
FACT: Each year in Virginia alone hundreds of thousands of dogs and cats are euthanized due to overpopulation.
FACT: As long as these birth rates exist, there will never be enough homes for all the animals.
What can you do?
Resources for spay and neuter Information
- Your local veterinarian
- PETA 622-PETA
- Spayusa.org
- Your local SPCA
- Your local Animal Control
If you're not convinced yet, here's some more info
An unspayed female cat, her mate, and all of her offspring producing 2 litters per year with only 2-3 kittens per litter surviving can produce an astounding amount of kittens in a short period of time!
| 1 year: 12 kittens |
6 years: 66,088 kittens |
| 2 years: 67 kittens |
7 years: 370,092 kittens |
| 3 years: 376 kittens |
8 years: 2,072,514 kittens |
| 4 years: 2,107 kittens |
9 years: 11,606,077 kittens! |
| 5 years: 11, 801 kittens |
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| (figures compliments of spayusa.org) |
Benefits of spaying females
(dogs and cats) |
Benefits of neutering males
(dogs and cats) |
| • It stops heat cycles |
• Reduces or eliminates spraying/marking |
| • They will have less desire to roam |
• Less desire to roam |
• Risk of mammary gland tumors, ovarian
and/or uterine cancer is reduced or eliminated |
• Risk of testicular cancer is elimated |
| • Eliminates the possibility of pregnancy |
• Eliminates ability and urge to mate |
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• Decreased aggressive behavior |
Make your pet a better pet.
Help your pet live a longer and healthier life.
Be a HERO…
SAVE LIVES
Barking Dogs
It is unlawful according to Hampton City Code to permit your animal to make noise to so to disturb the peace of others (refer to Hampton City Code for complete reading of code). We ask that you be neighborly and respect the fact that everyone carries different schedules and all residents deserve to live in a peaceful environment.
If you have a dog that likes to bark when they are outside, we ask that you let them out only when you will be home to monitor their behavior. If they bark, please bring them inside. If this is not possible, consider other options such as a bark collar (available through pet supplies stores) or obedience training.
What can I do to ensure I am taking good care of my pet?
- Make sure your pet is safely confined to your yard.
- Provide for your pet adequate shelter at all times so if he chooses to utilize it, it is there. Law requires shelter to consist of 3 solid sides, a solid floor, and a solid slanted roof. It is required to be large enough for the animal to stand up, turn around and to lie down comfortably. Use caution when getting or building a shelter too large as a shelter is made warm by the body heat of the animal using it. If the shelter is too large they will not be able to stay warm in cold weather. It must be made of material that can be cleaned and sanitized properly (plastic is good).
- Also keep up to date identification on your pets and if your pet is micro-chipped, keep the registration current with your up to date information.
- Take your pets, upon acquiring, them to the veterinarian for an initial check-up and initial vaccinations. After this visit keep up annually with vaccination recommendations from your vet.
- Provide emergency care when needed.
- Give your pet attention and affection.
Phone Book
- Peninsula SPCA - 757.595.1399
- Animal Emergency Center - 757.234.0461
- Hampton 3-1-1 (use to make a report for Animal Control) - Dial 311 from a landline within city limits or 757.727.8311 from a cell phone or from outside city limits.
- Emergency Vet Clinic - 757.874.8115
- PETA - 757.622.PETA
- Wildlife Response - 757.543.7000
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