1. National Pet Adoption Month
Make your pet feel special!
10% Off Bathing or 15% off for pets with proof
of adoption in the last 6 months!

2. Animal Statistics:
• The number of homeless pets in the
United States is staggering! The surplus
is in the millions here. Cats are 45 times
as prolific, and dogs 15 times as prolific,
as humans.

3. So How Many Pets Does That Equal?
• As of 2013 there were 313 Million people
in the US! How many homeless pets does
that equal?
• 14,045,000,000.00 – OVER 14 Billion
Cats
• 4,695,000,000.00 – OVER 4 Billion Dogs

4. Horses count too!
• In 2012 (despite there not being slaughter
houses in the United States), 176,223
horses were exported to Mexico, Japan
and Canada for slaughter.

5. To find them all homes…
• Every person in the US (Man, woman and
child) would have to own:
• 15 Dogs
• 45 Cats
• And around 1 horse per 10 house holds

6. How can we help?
• Spay & neuter cats, dogs and male horses
• Responsible breeding (if you must)
• Adopt instead of buying – save a life!

7. Shelter Euthanasia Info:
• Did you know that not only does
irresponsible pet ownership lead to
homeless and unwanted pets, but costs
tax payers hundreds of thousands of
dollars to pay for shelter operations,
including euthanizing unwanted pets.
• These next few slides show what shelter
euthanasia rates and expenses were for
2012:

8. 2012 Area shelter euthanasia stats:
• Brunswick County: $383,443.07
Dogs – intake: 2,072 Euthanized: 1,220
Cats – intake: 3,245 Euthanized: 2,973
• Duplin County: $12,423.00
Dogs – intake: 804 Euthanized: 200
Cats – intake: 347 Euthanized: 222

9. 2012 Area shelter euthanasia stats:
• New Hanover County: $1,220,939.00
Dogs – intake: 1,755 Euthanized: 753
Cats – intake: 1,671 Euthanized: 1,116
• Onslow County: $772,170.00
Dogs – intake: 2,948 Euthanized: 1,119
Cats – intake: 3,121 Euthanized: 2,753

10. 2012 Area shelter euthanasia stats:
• Pender County: $356,310.00
Dogs – intake: 1,316 Euthanized: 281
Cats – intake: 1,481 Euthanized: 740
• Sampson County: $162,045.00
Dogs – intake: 1,685 Euthanized: 1,502
Cats – intake: 1,035 Euthanized: 917

11. How Much Money!
• Over $29 Million Dollars of taxpayer
money was spent in this 6 county area in
2012 on unwanted animals!

12. WHY ADOPT?
• Did you know that there are dozens of
rescues in our area!
• 75% of the animals that these non-county
funded rescues pull, are death row pets
from county shelters, taken in an effort to
save them!
• These rescues survive on donations and
adoption fees to cover their costs!

13. Adopted pets are often a better
buy:
• A pet from the shelter typically cost $100-$200,
but most of them are up to date on vaccines,
deworming, and have been spayed or neutered!
Just those services alone costs between $200-
$400!
• When you buy a puppy from a breeder, you pay
$300+ for the pup and then all the expenses of
vaccines and spay/neuter is additional! A typical
puppy first year cost upwards of $700.00 just in
appropriate medical care!

14. Shelter Pets are Often Trained
• Depending on the rescue, lots of their pets
are already leash, crate, and obedience
trained! This also saves you time and
money. They typically go through behavior
evaluation as well. This helps match your
home situation with the right animals (i.e.
– kid or other animal friendly, etc…)

15. Some Local Pet Adoption
Agencies:
• Adopt An Angel
• CAT Adoption Team
• Columbus Co Humane
Society
• Cape Fear Rescue
League
• Coastal Carolina Saint
Bernard Rescue
• ECHO – German
Shepherd Rescue
• German Shepherd
Rescue
• Half Way Home
• Monty’s Home
• Pender County Humane
Society
• PEAR – Pender
Endangered Animal
Rescue
• SE German Shepherd
Rescue
• Schnauzer Rescue of
Carolinas
• Sunburst Foundation

16. Local Equine Rescue:
• United States Equine Rescue League –
Cape Fear Chapter (USERL)

17. Save a life & make a life long
friend:
• Adopt your next pet & make a difference

18. June Clinic Promo
• All bathing is 10% off
• If you have proof of adopting your pet in
the last 6 months, you get 15% off of
bathing. 
• Come make your pet feel GOOD!