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Steps to Take Before Bringing Your Pet to a Shelter
 Feel like you can not keep your pet anymore? Or perhaps you have found a homeless animal that you would like to find a home for? The MSPCA is here to help both you and the animal in your care. The following presents a list of the most common problems pet owners face and possible solutions that can help you keep your pet for life. We also have tips on how to find a new home for your pet from the comfort of your home without having to bring your cat or dog into a shelter.
 Evaluating and Modifying the Problem
It is important to explore all options before bringing your animal to a shelter. Here are some tips on how to work through the problems you might be facing.
 Finding a New Home
Your pet will be less stressed staying in familiar surroundings until he/she is in a new home. Click here for a list of useful guidelines to help you find a new home for your pet from the comfort of your home.
 Surrendering an Animal to the MSPCA
If you are no longer able to care for or keep your animal, you can bring him/her to the MSPCA. Our shelters take in owned animals as well as stray cats and small mammals. If you find a stray dog please contact the animal control officer in the town in which the dog was found.
Our Reality More than 26,000 animals come into our seven Adoption Centers each year. The shelter environment is very stressful on a pet used to a quiet home with lots of attention and an established territory. While we do our best to make each animal feel as comfortable as possible in our facilities, it is not a home.
We have thousands of amazing success stories of finding homes for pets who are surrendered to us from owners. Our adoption center staff is well trained in screening and counseling prospective pet owners and finding new loving homes for pets brought into our adoption centers. But while we try our hardest to find homes for every animal that is brought to us, it is impossible to find homes for such a large number of animals. For animals that can not be placed, we have no choice but to provide them with a humane death through euthanasia. It is for this reason that we look to you to try everything you can to work on the situation you are facing in order to keep your pet for life or work to find a new happy home for your pet.
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