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Free to Live


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Adoptable Pets in Oklahoma
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Established in 1984, Free to Live Animal Sanctuary is the largest nonprofit, no-kill animal sanctuary in Oklahoma. Whether they are strays, abused, mistreated, neglected or extreme medical cases – all of our dogs and cats will live out their lives with love, companionship and a sense of family from our dedicated staff and volunteers. With your help, we can ensure every animal is free to live!


Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 5884
Edmond, OK 73083-5884

Call Us: (405) 282-8617

Do you need to find a loving home for your pet?

No-kill shelters do wonderful work, but as a result, are often inundated with pet surrenders. In the unfortunate scenario that you have to find a new home for your pet, please read through the rehoming solution and articles on this page before contacting the shelter.

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1. Feral Cat TNR Program

Many communities are embracing Trap, Neuter, Release programs (TNR) to improve animal welfare, reduce death rates, and meet obligations to public welfare.


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2. High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter

Low cost, high volume spay/neuter will quickly lead to fewer animals entering the shelter system, allowing more resources to be allocated toward saving lives.


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3. Rescue Groups

An adoption or transfer to a rescue group frees up scarce cage and kennel space, reduces expenses for feeding, cleaning, killing, and improves a community's rate of lifesaving. In an environment of millions of dogs and cats killed in shelters annually, rare is the circumstance in which a rescue group should be denied an animal.


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4. Foster Care

Volunteer foster care is crucial to No Kill. Without it, saving lives is compromised. It is a low cost, and often no cost, way of increasing a shelter's capacity, improving public relations, increasing a shelter's public image, rehabilitating sick and injured or behaviorally challenged animals, and saving lives.


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5. Comprehensive Adoption Programs

Adoptions are vital to an agency's lifesaving mission. The quantity and quality of shelter adoptions is in shelter management's hands, making lifesaving a direct function of shelter policies and practice. In fact, studies show people get their animals from shelters only 20% of the time. If shelters better promoted their animals and had adoption programs responsive to the needs of the community, including public access hours for working people, offsite adoptions, adoption incentives, and effective marketing, they could increase the number of homes available and replace killing with adoptions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, shelters can adopt their way out of killing.


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6. Pet Retention

While some of the reasons animals are surrendered to shelters are unavoidable, others can be prevented-but only if shelters are willing to work with people to help them solve their problems. Saving animals requires communities to develop innovative strategies for keeping people and their companion animals together. And the more a community sees its shelters as a place to turn for advice and assistance, the easier this job will be.


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7. Medical and Behavior Programs

In order to meet its commitment to a lifesaving guarantee for all savable animals, shelters need to keep animals happy and healthy and keep animals moving through the system. To do this, shelters must put in place comprehensive vaccination, handling, cleaning, socialization, and care policies before animals get sick and rehabilitative efforts for those who come in sick, injured, unweaned, or traumatized.


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8. Public Relations/Community Involvement

Increasing adoptions, maximizing donations, recruiting volunteers and partnering with community agencies comes down to one thing: increasing the shelter's exposure. And that means consistent marketing and public relations. Public relations and marketing are the foundation of all a shelter's activities and their success. To do all these things well, the shelter must be in the public eye.


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9. Volunteers

Volunteers are a dedicated "army of compassion" and the backbone of a successful No Kill effort. There is never enough staff, never enough dollars to hire more staff, and always more needs than paid human resources. That is where volunteers come in and make the difference between success and failure and, for the animals, life and death.


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10. Proactive Redemptions

One of the most overlooked areas for reducing killing in animal control shelters are lost animal reclaims. Sadly, besides having pet owners fill out a lost pet report, very little effort is made in this area of shelter operations. This is unfortunate because doing so-primarily shifting from passive to a more proactive approach-has proven to have a significant impact on lifesaving and allow shelters to return a large percentage of lost animals to their families.


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11. A Compassionate Director

The final element of the No Kill equation is the most important of all, without which all other elements are thwarted-a hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired cliches or hide behind the myth of "too many animals, not enough homes." Unfortunately, this one is also oftentimes the hardest one to demand and find.


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Missing “Chicago” my domestic shorthaired cat. He has white fur on his nose, all four paws, neck and little on his stomach. He has green eyes, been neutered and is highly afraid and skittish with loud. noises. He meows a lot of the time. He was last seen off Broadway Extension and Memorial Road area. Please help me find my baby boy.
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Please help save Nina and her unborn kittens! Hurry they do not have much time left! Saving Shawnee Gas Chamber Animals Page Liked · June 14 · Edited · Pledges-$171 NINA-I.D.#160506 Details:Medium Female Gray/Tan DSH Cat Date:6/14/16 Available:6/16/16 11:37 A.M. Found:664 N Market Rescue Needed for the pups and kitties at the Shawnee Animal Control facility.There are only 13 open kennels in a 30,000 population town. Dogs only have 48 hours stray hold, and after that are in mortal danger. Please do NOT EVER call Animal Control unless you are an owner, an adopter or a rescue. We are in the shelter every day and have a lot of respect for the Animal Control Officers. They did not set the policy, but are required to follow it. DO NOT CALL - PLEASE - calling will impede our efforts to rescue, help adopters and help owners. If you have a question, please send us a message. PLEASE CONSIDER PLEDGING TO HELP RESCUES SAVE A DOG OR CAT. EVERY DOLLAR HELPS! Once a rescue has saved a pet, there will be a information in the header concerning how to honor your pledge. This note describes PLEDGING in detail: https://www.facebook.com/…/how-can-i-help-…/1593229597592781 If an animal is reclaimed, we will move the animal from the timeline, and into the SAFE FOLDER. Once we know an animal is rescued, we will keep them in the timeline for awhile, and move them into the SAFE FOLDER of the month. HOW TO ADOPT: https://www.facebook.com/notes/saving-shawnee-gas-chamber-animals/how-to-adopt/1593210020928072 RESCUES - HOW TO START PULLING FROM SHAWNEE https://www.facebook.com/notes/saving-shawnee-gas-chamber-animals/we-are-a-rescue-how-do-we-pull-from-shawnee/1593229307592810 — with Penelope Shaw Ashenhurst, Gosia White and Gigi Dixon.
posted by GailPhillips, on 2016-06-28 19:47:08
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