Adopting?

Providing For Your Pet's Future Without You
PAWS urges potential owners of an adopted pet to obtain health information when adopting and to have pets vet-checked within 48 hours of adoption.

PAWS cannot guarantee the health of pets privately owned and listed with PAWS.

BECAUSE PETS USUALLY HAVE SHORTER LIFE SPANS than their human caregivers, you may have planned for your animal friend’s passing. But what if you are the one who becomes ill or incapacitated or who dies first?

HERE ARE SOME QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER:

  1. What can I do now to prepare for the unexpected?
  2. How can I ensure long-term or permanent care for my pet if I become seriously ill or die?
  3. How do I choose a permanent caregiver?
  4. Can I entrust the care of my pet to an organization?
  5. Can I request that my pet be euthanized after my death?
  6. Do I need legal assistance?
  7. Is a will the best way to provide for my pet?
  8. How can setting up a trust help?
  9. Which is right for me—a will or a trust?
  10. Consider also a Power of Attorney.

For help with answers to these questions, or other information, please call
PAWS at 250-428-7297 or email us at paws@kootenay.com.
Spay and Neuter
PLEASE BE A RESPONSIBLE PET OWNER. Have your pet spayed or neutered and keep vaccinations current.

PAWS can help with spay & neuter costs. Call us for information.
ID your Pet
Make sure your pet can be returned home if it becomes lost!

Ask a PAWS member about our ID Tag/database program.  Call 428-PAWS
Strays
If a stray, untagged cat or dog shows up at your door, the immediate things you can do are to:

- Check the newspaper under Lost Pets
- Call the vet clinic
- Call 428-PAWS

Unless you are prepared to assume the responsibility and care of this pet until an owner or new home can be found, DO NOT FEED IT!

If the pet is not encouraged to stay, it will probably move on and could find its own way home. 
Fostering
PLEASE REMEMBER, our fostering resources are extremely limited and CRESTON HAS NO FACILITY FOR LOST OR ABANDONED PETS!!!

CATS NEED VACCINATIONS TOO! A WELL CARED FOR CAT CAN GIVE MANY YEARS OF ENJOYMENT TO YOUR FAMILY.