Shelter Facts
Rolla Animal Shelter Facts:
- Animals at the shelter do not receive any medical care due to lack of budgeted funds.
- Law enforcement is prohibited from soliciting donations
- Rolla shelter receives no funding from Phelps County. The facility is solely supported by Rolla residents, which is why Phelps County residents must pay $10 to bring in strays or surrender their pets.
- Rolla shelter has dual priorities: public safety as well as the humane treatment of animals.
- In 2-4 years, the Rolla shelter is planning on moving into a new facility.
- Not all animals have equal chances at adoption: smaller breed mixes or popular breeds have a much better chance than other vulnerable ones.
- Strays are held 5 days to give their owner a chance to claim them.
- Despite cat and dog overpopulation in the area, the Rolla Animal Shelter has achieved a 60% adoption rate last year, as can be seen in these Happy Tails.
- Each year in this country, 8 to 10 million lost and unwanted dogs and cats enter animal shelters. They have about a fifty percent chance of getting out alive: 4 to 6 million of them will be euthanized – around a half million a month nationwide, 575 each hour, one every six and a half seconds. From: One at a Time
- It is estimated that one in 5 pet becomes lost during their lifetime. For the sake of your pet, please attach identification or microchip your cat and dog. If your pet is missing, be sure to check the local shelters--by law, the Rolla shelter is obliged to hold strays for 5 days to give owners a chance to reclaim them.
- No-kill shelters are often able to operate by limiting intake when they are full. Open intake shelters, like the Rolla Animal Shelter, must take all strays found in their precincts, and subsequently face difficult choices of which animals to euthanize to make room for incoming ones.