You can make an appointment at Wallys Friends low cost spay/neuter clinic in Red Bank @ 423-877-9966 or on the web at www.wallysfriends.com

RABIES & REGISTRATION

East Ridge Residents all dogs & cats must have a current rabies vaccination (City Ordinance #10-206 Inoculation Required) and City Registration tag (City Ordinance #10-201) Registration of Animals

All pets (dogs & cats) over the age of 3 months must be vaccinated against rabies in the state of Tennessee. All pets (dogs & cats) within the City limits of East Ridge (37412) must be registered with East Ridge Animal Services.

Collegedale, Lakesite, Soddy Daisy, Signal Mountain, Red Bank & all Unincorporated Hamilton County residents must registered your animals with the Humane Educational Society 423-624-5302.

Residents from the Chattanooga City limits must register their animals with McKamey Animal Care & Adoption Center 423-305-6500.

East Ridge City registration tags are $5.00 if the pet is spayed/neutered and $25.00 if the pet is not spayed/neutered.

All residents that have not utilized one of the several rabies clinics during the month of April and for some reason we have to visit your home and find an unvaccinated & unregistered pet you will only have 72 hrs to have such pet vaccinated & registered, failure to comply will lead to a citation to court for failure to follow the State of Tennessee Vaccination law & City of East Ridge Registration ordinance.

Be a good pet owner, have your pets vaccinated against rabies and registered. Registering your pet is the best form of ID that you can put on your pet next to micro chipping. With your registration we can contact you any time of the day or night in the event your pet is ever injured or found stray by a citizen, while it is harder to contact the owner of a pet using the vets rabies tag information (during regular business hours).

Proper ID on your pet will insure that your lost or injured pet will always be reunited with you!

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****Ask about our Guardian Angel Program****

The Guardian Angel Program enables you to help animals in our shelter by donating funds towards their adoption fee; you choose the animal you wish to help.

Many worthy families that would like to adopt but just can't afford the adoption fee can adopt an animal that has a Guardian Angel. So far we have had 31 animals adopted through this program.

Contact the shelter at 423-664-0271 or czagona01@comcast.net to find out more details.

Some people just want to help the animals in shelters and just don't know how to go about it, this is one way you can DIRECTLY affect the happy outcome of one of the pets at our shelter.

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Our Featured Pets...

Say hello to Milli, she was surrendered by a citizen that said she was a stray. Milli has 5 kittens along for the ride. Milli is super friendly and is available for adoption now.

Say hello to Snyder, he is one of Milli's kittens. Snyder is real friendly and playful. Snyder is about 5 weeks old and is ready for his new home.

Say hello to Kilo, he was surrendered along with his liter mates by a citizen that said she found them where she had moved. Kilo is real friendly and has had FRcP and Strongid. Kilo is available for adoption now.

Say hello to Sid, he had been hanging around a local neighborhood and the residents said he was acting aggressive. Sid is real friendly, we had not problem vaccinating him. Sid is also good with other dogs. Sid has had DA2PP & Bordetella on 2/23/20009 and if not claimed by his owner will be available for adoption on 2/27/2009. 5/29/2009 Sid was neutered and is heartworm neg!

Say hello to Celia, she had been at a citizens house over the weekend and wouldn't leave. Celia is super friendly and if not claimed by her oner she will be available for adoption on 2/27/2009. Celia has had DA2PP & Bordetella on 2/23/2009. 3/2/20009 Celia was adopted to a great family. 5/1/2009 Celia was returned because her owners said their landlord wouldn't let them keep her anymore. 5/19/2009 Celia has found a Guardian Angel that has paid her adoption fee. 6/6/2009 Celia was adopted to a great family while out at Petsmart. 6/26/2009 Celia was returned for the second time, the owner did not give a reason.

Say hello to Biscute, he was surrendered by his owner. His owner was asked if he had tried to find Biscute a new home and he replied 'NO'. Biscute has had DA2PP & Bordetella on 6/8/2009. Biscute is available for adoption now. 7/1/2009 Biscute has found a Guardian Angel that has paid his adoption fee.

Say hello to Saxon, he was runnning in and out of traffic on Ringgold Rd this morning and some workers at the Sure Shine Car Wash caught him so he wouldn't get run over. Saxon is super friendly, but he doesn't play well with other dogs. Saxon has had DA2PP & Bordetella on 5/20/2009 and if not claimed by his owner will be available for adoption on

Say hello to Luna, she was abandoned by her owner, a citizen called us and told us he saw a blue Fors pull away and then found her. Luna was taken to our vet to be treated for mange. Luna is super friendly and has had DA2PP & Bordetella on 5/18/2009. Luna is available for adoption now. 7/1/20009 Luna has found a Guardian Angel that has paid her adoption fee.

Say hello to Lady, she was found by a resident and surrendered to us. The surrender said she found the dog near Eastgate Town Center and tried to turn her in at McKamey but was turned away because she didn't have a Chattanooga address. So maybe the owner will look for her at East Ridge since she lives in Chattanooga! Lady is real skittish right now but she does wag her tail and will let you pet her. lady has had DA2PP & Bordetella on 1/23/2009 and if not claimed by her owner will be available for adoption on 1/29/2009. 6/1/2009 Lady has found a Guardian Angel that has paid her adoption fee.

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2009 News

We will continue to do our best to find placement for all animals that come into our care, we know that people will continue to dump animals within the City limits of East Ridge, we know that people will continue to lie to us when surrendering an animal because it's their animal or a friend from Chattanooga. So 2009 should be an interesting year for ERAS. We are also working with some neighborhood watch programs within the City, these citizens are our eyes at night when people try to abandon an animal in their neighborhood. BEWARE we have many eyes, and we will get your car tag and then you will get a visit from an officer.

We are a very small shelter with extremely limited space. We are unable to accept animals from other areas; proof of residence will have to be given when surrendering any animal.

Please do not have a friend from East Ridge surrender your animal as theirs. We do check up on all suspicious surrenders. And do not surrender your animal to us as a stray, that is just wrong and we can tell if you are the owner.

We have the reputation of finding our animals new homes or getting them into rescue, but it's not our responsibilty to find "YOUR" animal a new home, we are the last RESORT.

We have only ONE main cat rescuer and only ONE dog volunteer that brings the dogs to Petsmart to increase their chances fo finding new homes. We would like to thank our other couple that helps with the dogs every other week with getting the dogs to Petsmart.

So, you can do the math on your own, our resources are extremely limited and so is our kennel and cat cage space.

PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO FIND YOUR ANIMAL A NEW HOME, REMEMBER YOUR PET IS A FAMILY MEMBER, NOT A THROW A-WAY OR RECYCLABLE ITEM THAT CAN JUST BE THROWN AWAY WHEN YOU ARE TIRED OF IT. YOUR ANIMAL IS A LIVING BREATHING, CARING CREATURE THAT DESERVES BETTER! THINK ABOUT IT BEFORE YOU SURRENDER YOUR FAMILY MEMBER, THE CHOICE YOU MAKE WILL ALWAYS STAY WITH YOU!

Please do not have a friend that lives in East Ridge surrender your animal, this is not fair to the animals from East Ridge.

If you live outside of East Ridge and need to surrender an animal we can provide rescue contacts but we can not take your animal.

Please remember WE are NOT a RESCUE group but an ANIMAL CONTROL FACILITY. We can not guarantee that your surrendered animal will find a new loving home.

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"NOTICE"

SINCE PEOPLE HAVE FOUND IT NECESSARY TO ABANDON THEIR ANIMALS AT THE SHELTER AFTER WE CLOSE, WE HAVE BEEN FORCED TO INSTALLED SURVALLENACE CAMERAS THANKS TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. CAR TAGS CAN BE SEEN FROM THESE CAMERAS, IF CAUGHT YOU WILL BE PROSECUTED FOR STATE ANIMAL ABANDONMENT!

We would like to thank our citizens for providing car tags of people trying to abandon their animals at night in East Ridge.

REMEMBER, ALL WE NEED IS YOUR CAR TAG AND A WITNESS IN ORDER TO PROSECUTE FOR STATE ANIMAL ABANDONMENT!

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Who We Are

East Ridge Animal Services was created to provide the citizens of East Ridge with fast and courteous animal control services.

East Ridge Animal shelter is certified by the State of Tennessee

East Ridge Animal Services Officers are the only NACA certified (National Animal Control Association) Animal Control Officers in Hamilton County at this time; both Officers hold a State of Tennessee CAET certification (Certified Animal Euthanasia Technician) and both are members of the Hamilton County DART Team (Disaster Animal Response Team).

Officer Zagona is on the Board of Directors of ACAT (Tennessee Animal Control Association).

East Ridge Animal Services will work with the new McKamey Animal Care & Adoption Center & Catoosa County Rabies Control if asked since our areas border each other’s jurisdictions. We cannot provide services to these areas; we do help in situations when needed.

Animal Control services are provided 24/7/365 days a year, all calls are ran during regular business hours, on weekends & holidays only emergency calls are ran.

PLEASE ONLY SICK OR INJURED ANIMAL CALLS, ANIMAL BITES, AGGRESSIVE ANIMALS or ANIMALS at a BUSINESS ARE CONSIDERED AN AFTERHOUR EMERGENCY CALL, If you believe your complaint is one of the above please call the East Ridge Police @ 423-622-1725.

Please remember for animal emergencies DO NOT call 911 for a stray or a dog running at large afterhours. Stray animals or dogs running at large are not considered an emergency and no Animal Services Officer will be dispatched.

If you have a stray animal please call the shelter and leave a message and we will run the complaint the next business day.

When making a complaint please provide the owners address if known & animal description. This will enable our officer to talk to the owner and remedy the problem quickly.

East Ridge Animal Services shelter is a rescue friendly shelter, we gladly welcome all rescue groups to come by and visit with us at anytime. We have had several rescue groups visit. They thanked us for being so friendly and helpful. We could not help these animals without the help from these rescue groups.

Please donate to your local rescues!

Click to see our pets!

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Adopting a friend

♥ Adoption prices are ♥

*** Unaltered (not spayed/neutered) $85.00, which includes a vet check,a rabies voucher and a spay/neuter. The pets are wormed when they arrive at the shelter. All other services, shots & tests are not included and will not be covered under the adoption contract.***

***Altered (already spayed/neutered) $40.00, which includes a vet check & a rabies voucher. All other services, shots, tests are not included and will not be covered under the adoption contract.***

When dogs and puppies arrive at the shelter, they are given a DA2PP (Distemper, Adenovirus Type 2, Parainfluenza and Parvo virus) & Bordetella vaccine.

When cats and kittens arrive at the shelter they are given a FRcP (Rhinotracheitis, Calicivirus & Panleukopenia) vaccine.

Participating Veterinarians

These veterinarians provide a service to the community buy accepting our adoption contracts, they don't make any money off the spay/neuters but in turn hope to gain a new client.

If your veterinarian is not on our list ask them if they would accept our adoption contract, just have the vets office call us and we can explaine our reimbursement policy to them.

East Ridge Animal Hospital

Riverview Animal Hospital

Middle Valley Animal Hospital

Ashland Terrace Animal Hospital

Red Bank Animal Hospital

Northgate Animal Hospital

Ooltewah Animal Hospital

Animal Medical Professionals of Ooltewah

Shallowford Animal Hospital

Hwy 58 Animal Hospital

Wolftever Animal Hospital

Chattanooga Veterinary Center

Animal Hospital of Signal Mountain

Signal Mountain Veterinary Clinic

Lee Parkway Veterinary Clinic

Brainerd Hills Veterinary Clinic

Mountain Hospital for Animals

Northshore Veterinary Clinic

Sequoyah Animal Hospital, Soddy Daisy

Marion County

Kirk Veterinary Clinic, Kimball, TN

Rhea County

South Rhea Animal Hospital, Dayton,TN

Bradley County

Bradley Veterinary Clinic

Keith Street Animal Clinic

Animal Medical Center

Georgia

Catoosa Veterinary Clinic, Ringgold, GA

Dalton Animal Care (Gordon,Murry & Whitfield counties only)

Alabama

North Jackson Animal Clinic, Stevenson, AL

Mountain Top Animal Clinic, Pisgah, AL

Critter Care, Scottsboro, AL

Huntsville Animal Clinic, Huntsville, AL

Linderman Animal Hospital, Brownsville, AL

We can no longer adopt out of state unless one of our participating veterinarians is used, or the animal will have to be spayed/neutered here and picked up from the vets office only after the animal is able to travel. Any extra costs will also have to be paid to the vet before the animal can be picked up by the new owner (HW test, blood work ect.)

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Thanks to All Our friends and Volunteers

We would like to thank all the rescue groups for the help in cross posting our animals, to date we have had several rescue groups take animals from the shelter. Without these groups help our animals would not of found the help they needed in finding a new loving home. Please donate to your local rescue groups; this will enable them to continue the hard work they do for the animals.

We would also like to thank the Best Friends Network for their members help in finding rescues and donations for our shelter, and we would also like to thank C.A.R.E for rescuing many kitties and pups and the Pet Placement Center for rescue help and all the numerous rescues that have helped.

We couldn't of found as many homes to date without the tireless effort given by Cindy Viar on Saturday's at Petsmart! Stop by and say "THANK YOU" for all she's doing to help the shelter animals!

We would also like to thank Danny Viar, Jack Bosch for helping transport the animals to Petsmart! We would also like to thank the staff at New Leash On Life Thrift Store for their donations to our Guardian Angel program.

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Donations

We are in need of blankets for our furry friends, We could also use DRY DOG (Dog Chow) & PUPPY FOOD (Puppy Chow), KITTEN FOOD, CAT LITTER (Tidy Cat), CARRIERS/CRATES. Toys would be great for everyone, but please washable toys only (hard rubber) for the dogs. We don't want them ingesting any of the tear up kind of toys like stuffed animals and such. We will accept any donation. Nothing goes to waste. If you would like to just come and visit the animals, that would be AWESOME! The doggies need walks and quality time spent one on one with caring individuals. We encourage the citizens of East Ridge and people everywhere to visit the shelter and just spend time with the animals. They desperately need the affection and exercise.

If you would like to MAKE dog beds for our dogs, check out this link: http://www.columbusdogconnection.com/elevated_dog_beds.htm

We do recommend using heavy weight vinyl material for the beds. 40 oz per square yard weight is what the brand/company Kuranda uses for their beds. It is highly unlikely that the doggies will be able to tear or chew this material. Another volunteer made some beds using canvas material and they were all but destroyed completely... So, canvas would not be a lasting choice...Since these beds take a good little bit of time to make, it would be in ones best interest to have them last- not to mention the doggies best interest. :-)

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You can also see our adoptable pets in Critter magazine, we also list our animals on 1-800-save-a-pet.com, Pets 911, and some of our animals can be seen on KZ-106 Kelly McCoys Pet Project page. We do post our animals on several web sites to get the animals more exposure; it has been working great for us.

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Come Visit Us!

We are located behind East Ridge Hospital at 1015 Yale St. Come down Spring Creek Rd and look for Graston St. there will be an Animal Shelter sign. Follow the signs to the shelter.

Map to our shelter

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City of East Ridge Animal Services
1015 Yale St.

East Ridge, TN 37412
Phone: 423-664-0271

Shelter Email: eras@comcast.net

Animal Control Supervisor Email: czagona01@comcast.net
Email: czagona@eastridgetn.org

Animal Control Officer Email: jcooper952@comcast.net
Email: jcooper@eastridgetn.org

Click here for a list of pets at this shelter

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Click here for a list of pets at this shelter

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