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Last Updated: Sunday, November 16, 2008
If you have a stray animal, call the dog control officer or dog warden in your town.
Sometimes the decision to surrender an animal must be made. It can be an unpleasant task, especially if it is someone's loved pet, but we understand and we do care. Even a wild, unowned and free-running dog though deserves the warmth of a shelter and food and water.
If you have or find an unwanted animal, please do the right thing for it; do not let it become unloved, forgotten and hidden away, possibly to starve to death, be hit by a car, or suffer other needless miseries. Here is what you can do:
IF YOU ARE BRINGING AN ANIMAL IN YOURSELF, CLICK HERE.
If you need to contact the Dog Control Officer or Dog Warden for your area, you can click the IMPORTANT PHONE NUMBERS button to the left. That list includes county dog wardens/officers, law enforcement, shelters and veterinarians for this area. In an emergency it could be pretty handy.
OR, unlikely as it may be, should the list contain an out of date phone number, the local government links below will contain the information also; just not as neatly organized, but they should be constantly up to date
In Ogdensburg call 393-1555 and ask for the Dog Control Officer.
For all other towns and villages, you must contact your Town Government for the correct information. You can find them in Transwestern and Verizon Superpages directories in the Blue Pages, OR,
Here is a link to the roster of St. Lawrence County government officials where for most areas you will find Dog Wardens or Animal Control entries, arranged by villages and towns.:
http://www.co.st-lawrence.ny.us/County_Clerk/Roster2004.pdf#page=55
All city, county, town and village government is listed there. You’ll need the Acrobat PDF reader to download it to your screen.
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Click the link, search for your city/town/village or town and then look within that for dog warden or anything to do with the office. There will be a phone number to call there. If you don’t find anything in your specific town, look then in the immediately surrounding area; often a dog warden may cover more than one area.
The information is also available from the Transwestern and Verizon Superpages directories in the Blue Pages.
IF YOU ARE SURRENDERING A PET:
Please also surrender any health, vet and shot records you may have for the animal. Do not remove collars unless they are causing the animal discomfort.
And, on a final note, should you surrender a pet or stray, please realize that our by-laws do not permit the SPCA to provide updates to anyone concerning the animal's status. Our volunteers are very busy. Please just try to rest comfortable in the knowledge that they experienced the most humane thing possible to be done for them, in most cases that is to be adopted by some loving family or person and meantime to enjoy the warmth, comfort and love of the SPCA staff who care so well for them..
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