Animal Crackers will try to help you place a pet in a new home, but we are not a shelter and have no facility to house animals.
What to do if you find a dog or cat...
If you FIND a dog or cat, please do the following:
Local Veterinarians
(After Hours Emergency for Hurt Animals) - 252-972-1471
etc....
SCAN THE PET - Take the pet to a veterinary hospital or your local shelter and have them scanned for a microchip. Animal Crackers also has a universal microchip scanner and will be glad to scan any animal for you. Please email Connie at doglady555@hotmail.com to request a scan. If you call the animal shelter, give them a description of the animal, the location where you found it, etc. so they can inform any owner who calls looking for a lost pet.
POST FLIERS - You can post fliers around the area where you have found the dog/cat, but do NOT post a picture. Give a partial description, but leave something that someone claiming to be the pets owner could tell you. There are people out there who will pretend that the pet is theirs and sell them to companies that experiment on pets or do other things to them. You can also put an ad in the Rocky Mount Telegram for free to try to find the owner. Animal Crackers will post information about the found pet on the Found Pets tab. Please email Laura at LauraDurham_3@msn.com if you would like to do this. We will not post a picture and recommend that you give only part of the description of the pet. The owner should be able to give a complete description of the pet and/or show proof that they are the owner.
If no one claims the pet:
After 7 days go by, you can either keep the pet or try to find it a home. First, take it to the vet and get it examined and vaccinated, whether you are keeping it or looking for a new home. It is much easier to find a new home for a pet that has been "vetted". You may contact Jennifer from Animal Crackers at jlmcdonald01@gmail.com and ask her to put your "foster" pet on Animal Crackers Pet Placement Page. You will need to send her current pictures and a description, as well as your contact information. We will post the pet for you, but all responsibility is with you in finding a suitable home. We will also forward this to our email listing of people in hopes someone will be interested. We also recommend that you make fliers and pass them around, especially at the Petco and Petsmart bulliten boards and anywhere businesses will allow you. You can also list your "foster" pet on Craigslist as well as the newpaper classifieds. We encourage you to ask for references from any potential adopters and make sure to check them. Always ask for a small small adoption fee to cover expenses because that will exclude dishonest people looking for free animals to sell to animal research laboratories, to train fighting dogs to kill and other unethical and disturbing things.
Rescues in the surrounding areas
Merlin's Song (cats only) (252) 446-7611Friends of Rocky Mount AnimalsFor the Love of Dogs (252) 243-7450Chatham County Animal Rescue and Education Chatham County Animals only, cats and dogs) (919) 542-5757Feral Cat Friends (they help 'friendlies' also!, cats only) Garner, NC ) (919) 662-5365 and (919) 772-2212Happy Hills Animal Foundation Staley, NC (336) 622-3620Have a Heart Animal Rescue & Education, Cary, NC, 919-481-3373 (cats and dogs)LIFE Animal Haven, Oxford, NC, 919-938-4261 (cats and dogs)Best Friend Pet Adoption (919) 661-1722New Leash on Life Dog Rescue Wake Forest (919) 788-3633Operation Catnip (feral cat TNR help) (919) 779-7247CARE for Animals (cats and dogs) (919) 938-0501SAFE Haven for Cats Raleigh, NC (919) 872-1128Second Chance, Cary, NC, 919-460-0610 (cats and dogs-also, they have a special fund
for animals whose owners have passed on or have had to move into a nursing home)Goathouse Refuge Pittsboro, NC (cats only)Alley Cat AlliesSaving Graces 4 Felines Greenville, NCMarley Fund Greenville, NC (cats only, dedicated to making a difference in the fight against feline retroviruses, including both feline leukemia and feline immunodeficiency viruses)
If you have LOST your dog or cat:
Please call the same agencies, as they might be able to help you locate your pet. Put a good, close up picture of your pet with the location it was lost, as well as contact information on a flier and distribute it to the local vets, shelters, neighbors in your area, post on telephone poles, etc.
If you have lost a cat, don't forget to look up into trees, a frightened cat often will climb up and may not be able to get back down. Tell your neighbors to check their garages and sheds. Cats usually will not wander during the day, especially if they are lost. Get a large flashlight and make sure to search from dusk to dawn. A frightened or injured cat will often hide, so look in bushes and anyplace that a cat could hide in.