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Yucaipa Animal Placement Society seeks adopters, reports Petco Love grant and parvo treatment costs
Summary
Jennifer Hurlbut, executive director of the Yucaipa Animal Placement Society, presented Aug. 11 about pet adoptions, a Petco Love vaccination grant that funded several hundred shots and recent parvo treatments that cost about $1,500 per pet.
Jennifer Hurlbut, executive director of the Yucaipa Animal Placement Society (YAPS), delivered a brief presentation to the council on Aug. 11 describing current adoption and animal-care efforts.
Hurlbut brought "Harley," a 7-year-old boxer available for adoption, highlighted a senior-adoption discount and said the organization runs vaccine clinics funded by a Petco Love grant. She said the grant has funded vaccines for "a little over 350 animals" so far and YAPS will operate a free clinic the next day at an off-site location on Highway 18 offering free vaccines and low-cost microchips and bordetella.
Hurlbut said YAPS rescues animals from local municipal shelters (San Bernardino city shelter and the county shelter at Devore) and sometimes treats animals for communicable diseases. She told the council that recent parvo cases among rescued puppies required antibody treatment that costs approximately $1,500 per pet and described a recent litter of 15 puppies who received treatment.
Hurlbut asked residents to consider adoption, microchipping and community vaccine clinics as ways to reduce shelter disease exposure and keep animals in safe homes.
