“This year, don’t bring a dog home for the holidays, bring them home for life,” a post on the Clark County Dog Shelter’s Facebook said. “Adopt a dog that needs a chance, a home of their very own, and a family to love.”
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Normally an adoption at the dog shelter cost between $150 and $175, depending on additional costs for things like spaying or neutering and shots, Clark County spokesperson Michael Cooper said.
“So $77 is a pretty good deal,” Cooper said.
Clark County recently increased the price of a dog license for 2020 in order to deal with the steady increase in strays the county has seen.
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Clark County Dog Warden Sandi Click said last year by November the shelter had taken in 728 dogs. In November of this year, the shelter had already taken in 878, a number Click said she expected to increase before 2020.
The Clark County Dog Shelter is located at 5201 Urbana Rd. in Springfield. The shelter is open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
The shelter is closed on Wednesdays and Sundays.
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