animal rescue and placement organization and our plus fee is family pants stay in family environments so therefore we do home sheltering we use foster homes which is baccy is one of our foster homes and holding s probably i would say about eighty percent of our animals are strays our philosophy you know what we want to get to strays off the street our own relinquish parking lot that's pretty much our main concern making trees and those animals are off of the streets and in safe environments where there can be cared for and then begin to weep then we can begin to try to find homes for them  help with our foster homes of course these are volunteers that agree to bring their animals and bring in a ml's into their homes keep them with their families in a healthy and safe environment and till we can find homes for them we have one hundred foster homes we need two hundred foster homes you know there's always going to be need for foster homes because we have to have a place to put the animals that people are calling us about the strays or owner relinquish or allergies or and whatever it is whatever the reason for that is so that's always a concern not everybody can be foster homes because of their situation on perhaps they ran or their work schedule so then that's where we use volunteers for fundraising and that's what helps cover the expenses that we have with our organization we have our junior volunteers such as alex these are high school students and middle school and high school students that come out and help us at different events such as our and often jana is one of our cage cleaners at pet smart because we have cages that pets more where we keep our cats during the week when we're not doing adopt thon so we have cleaners we need volunteers to transport animals to and from the vets we have volunteers that will help with follow up conversations with our parents check references for people that are interested in adopting from us there's lots of different things that they can do crafts you know at our fundraising events we have volunteers that make crafts for us  the morning i start out in the morning with the feeding of my foster cats and all the course sassy has to go outside for a little while we do litter boxes and we have multiple litter boxes depending on how many kittens and catch you have in foster use we go for walks after work evenings are usually more pair playing and just patten given your and the foster love they need to know that they or love no matter whether in foster or talking to people socialize and get the socialized with different people i mean do you have right now right now in foster i have eleven fosters that's probably the smallest number i've had and they are all cats i have one female cat had to do to have kittens any care of animals providing care and love to them so ok sherry i think you probably did explaining explain your adoption policy would you mind going on yet again please if someone is interested in adopting a pet from pet search the first thing that we like to do is get a little bit of information about them we know all about the pets and we can tell them all about the pets but we want to know about them so we do have an adoption application that we asked people to fill out simply giving us you know background information about themselves what they have what veterinarians they use help with their philosophy is on caring for pets once we have the application in hand then the first thing that we like to do is check the preferences of fish specially the veterinarian references if they do have pets if there are if they rant then of course we need to contact landlords and then we'll schedule a phone call conversation where we can get a you know talk with them and then if everything checks out then they are now proper aunts and they are taking the pet home with them were do they get all this information i mean how do they get this information oh well there's a variety of different sources we have because of the four cages that we have a pet smart we do have applications of pet smart where people can fill out for cats we have actually have two websites we have our own website w is pet search p eight dot org and we also on pet finder so those animals that are available for adoption are on those two websites and people can also download an application from our own website if they do see an animal that is on the web site that they like or if they've seen one at one of the adoptive parents that didn't make it on the website yet so they can always they can always get an application from us is the same procedure used  there something a little different well actually i guess with the foster homes when people contact us we have two different types of foster homes we have temporary foster homes these are people that find animals or have animals that need to place that we possibly don't have room at the time or because of the pets personality and temperament and can't go into a foster home so they become a temporary foster home and they keep the animal until we can match up the right home the other ones are our brachial or foster homes and i probably have been to every foster home that we have in their house more times than not just to visit with the animals talk to them you know help them out with paperwork and those sorts of things so if someone is interested yes we like to get a little bit information about them and yes we usually do a visitation to their home ok now you had mentioned something about a junior membership does that work or did you tell us about that already well remember in junior members of our ages pretty much we've had junior members as young as eight or nine years old and it goes to eighteen these are high school students middle school students that are loving animals and they have an interest in animals because quite honestly they're the future for the animals you know becky jan and i are only going to be able to do this for so long alex is going to carry on his mother's legacy of animal love and hopefully continue with doing rescue work i mean that's always our kid that's what we would like for many of the high schools i know trinity one being that's where i teach i'm sure peters township shore tears are used in tandem act all of those they do have community service requirements volunteer things that need to be done simply for graduation and that's where a lot of we do get a lot of our junior members is because you know national honor society key club graduation requirements the kids have to have x amount of hours of community service so you get animal lovers and they then they pair up with us and they come out and they help with the doppler thons and they'll walk dogs and play with the cats and you know you know run forms back and forth for us help fill care packages for the animals to be adopted lot of fundraisers during the summer going to different festivals and areas in close in the town and basically we have crafts and stuff that we sell we have homemade pet or dog biscuits cabinets get second i think we have a lot of resale that we do the money from the adopt a thought the option of a pet does not really find the organization that cost that covers the cost of stay or neutering a pet before it leaves u going in there vet check there are shots there microchips and so the cost of an adoption really does not think go into find raising you put microchips yes oh yes we microchip every animal before it leaves oh does it hurt in the pit might be a pinch for a second but that said it's important it's important to make sure that the animals are returned to the to the organization or to their  six hundred and twenty six thousand investors that's how many people s i p c has helped since my nine hundred seventy five hundred five million dollars over a half a billion dollars that's how much s i p c has made available from its reserves to help investors over fifteen billion dollars that's how much as i p c has made it possible for investors to recover what is a side p c it's a securities investor protection corporation and investors first line of defense in the unlikely event that a brokerage firm fails it doesn't happen very often but when it does s i p c is there for real people like me and me and me and you can eradicate polio but you can promote peace and you can plead that you can help children do better in school because new can get involved with rotary because rotary believes that by working together you can do and learn more at rotary dot org and course as being a foster home if somebody would choose say from the audience that is watching the program today they would choose to want to be a foster home and become involved with pet search there's no expense to them that search covers everything we provide all the medical attention the veterinarian care food litter toys collars leashes everything that a foster home might need for the animal so yes and a pet of course so there's no expense to being a foster  home you know they just provide the love in the safe environment while the animal is in their care while we're trying to match up because really i guess for matchmakers we're trying to match the personality and temperament of the pet in this case with her being a little does cover some of the expenses the fundraising covers an awful lot by going to you know the peters township community days the pumpkin festival the covered bridge you know all the different festivals and any place that anybody will let us come out and sell some of our beautiful handmade crafts and things like that that covers a lot to when people relinquish pets to us we do ask if they would consider making a donation to pet search it's not mandatory because we know some people with today's economy have to read consider but if they can make a donation to pad search that certainly helps and we ask when we do place in the end what's a sixty five dollar doe adoption fee or adoption dollars and it covers there's a lot involved with with getting an animal ready for adoption we'll get to that in the us is that yes ok would you want to answer this one what programs do you also to the community or neuter assistance program and actually for a very nominal fee you can have your pets spayed or neutered you this is this certificate you take and it's one of our vets we have numerous vets in this program you take your pet to one of the only requirements is that they are up to date on their vaccines and if it's a very low cost first stage or to get your pets trained or neutered makes them a much better peda much healthier your party you know in the program would be course we have seven veterinarians that participating in the program for snap you can download an application from our website which is went to the end pet search ph dot org you can pick up applications at pet smart or petco litter prevent a kid you want to explain their place in order to prevent so many litters of kittens being born we are having a preventive kitty litter event this weekend at tractor supply on saturday they will be from ten to five when you can come in and actually purchase that certificate to have your dog or cat spayed or neutered to prevent those unwanted pets there are so many unwanted and uncared for pets that we're trying to just take care of that make about two years now and is just it blows me away as to the number of applications or the number of foreign vouchers that we are sending out weekly because people veterinary care is expensive so this way we can help people keep their pets prevent more unwanted pets from being born at a discounted price so i mean that's that's the key so it helps everybody out in armed pinion the other program that we have trap neuter release this is our feral cat program where animals are where if people have feral cats and of course you know they some people call them a nuisance but there is a reason for that mean that the mouse and things like that but they are also overpopulating that we have traps we will assist people in trapping the cats getting them spayed or neutered and then releasing them back out where they come from because these cats some some of these cats have been born in these areas and there they have so use it's better not to try to remove them from that environments we leave them in that area we also have a blessing of the animals and that's always sixty five dollars and for anybody that is a pat owner when i explained what also included people usually go how can you afford it that's why we have the fundraisers what is included in the sixty five dollars excuse me she's not happy today she isn't going to be a television story what is included in the sixty five dollars is an animal dog cat puppy or kitten that has been to the vets they have been checked they are healthy they have all shots that are appropriate for their age so an eight week old kitten will have its first set of kitten shots a twelve week old kitten will have a rabies shot so it's appropriate shots that are appropriate for their age they are flea treated they are wormed they are micro chipped and that sixty five dollars is also inclusive of the added microchip registration which many shelters tell people there's an additional fee for that we cover that they're al sometimes we have young ones that are too small to spay and neuter before their place but we do include a voucher and that does cover the spare the neuter we pay for that also also with every adoption goes a care package which has a bag of science diet pet food color's leashes for poppies toys treats help make the transition from our foster home to the new parents home a little bit easier because these are toys that the animal has already that they've played with the type of food that they've been eating so it makes it makes a little bit easier for everybody involved we feel then that was  do well how do you do it for such a low price so well once again and then i just said i mean because it takes us usually one hundred and ten to almost two hundred dollars to get an animal ready for adoption  by the time that we put in the vet care and you know and everything else so the fundraising covers a lot of that are christmas donations help cover the generosity of people you know we've got people that have adopted from us and they still consider to be you know can you know continue to be generous with us you know throughout the year you know the processing fee that's what we call it for somebody that does relinquish an animal to us that they give us a donation  that's that all of sort of gets pulled together and that helps cover the costs and we are very fortunate that we can still keep the costs low and still provide quality care for the animals that are looking for placement and when adopt from pet search especially when they've adopted sometimes two or three or four animals from us and we have repeated to doctors come back that many yeah they know that they are getting an animal that is healthy that has been cared for that has been well socialized because it's in a foster home it's not living in a cage it's sleeping on some of these bad it's playing in the shore and it's not in a kennel and that's i think that's what makes our program very very special because twenty five years and we're still full to broaden our program the way that we do and i don't think that any of us here would want it or any of our other volunteers would want it any other way because we know the the program works and it works real well because we have animals that would you describe or you can calm as a bouncer she is a she's a brittany spaniel mix that actually was abandoned at our house somebody put her in an outside counsel at our house and she's have a little kids we can put him in a cage and we've got the one cage at the bottom we can open up it's a big cage and we can put three or four there they probably don't stay too long no they don't you know we got our kitten from the kate we accept any kind of toy crates any kind of things like that you can contact us on our by calling us at seven two four two two eight seven three three five  pet search number you can leave a message that's how you can get involved that's how you can make donations that's how you could you know talk to us about making a deal leaving us in your will you know just talk call us because we love the animal lovers