Not being able to find your family pet can send some owners in a panic, but the Greater Moncton SPCA does its best to ensure you are back together quickly.
Executive Director Dave Rogers says they reunited quite a few animals with their owners in 2016, thanks to both microchips and licenses on both cats and dogs, “If someone calls and says there’s a stray cat or dog in their yard, and we go an pick them up. Then we go looking for their original family, and we’ve reunited about 205 pets with their loved ones.”
Rogers says licenses are reasonably priced, and it is a worthwhile investment, if it means getting your pet home safely, “For that $10, when your animal is picked up or dropped off at the shelter, we can go and look in our system, find you, give you a call, and then you are reunited with your pet.”
Rogers says they’ll be pushing in 2017, for more pet owners to get their animals licensed. He notes, the $10 goes right into the operating budget for the SPCA. It is not a tax to the city.
