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East Ridge Animal Services


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East Ridge Animal Services is a full spectrum municipal animal control services agency and animal shelter serving the City of East Ridge, TN. ERAS facilitates both field operations and shelter operations, including routine animal control, cruelty investigations, registration, animal care, TNR, adoptions, etc.

ERAS operates as a "NO KILL" shelter, adhering to the "No Kill Equation" as policy. The shelter does not euthanize treatable, adoptable animals, and maintains a total euthanasia rate well below the commonly accepted 10% benchmark.

ERAS
1015 Yale St.
East Ridge, TN 37412
423-664-0271

Jonathan "Jack" Cooper, Supervisor

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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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I wonder if the ignorant realize you are adopting out pit bulls and pit bull mix dogs who are a danger to children? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305270428_Characteristics_of_1616_Consecutive_Dog_Bite_Injuries_at_a_Single_Institution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFa8HOdegZA&t=1506s
posted by VanHalo, on 2018-06-04 18:10:25
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Impressive staff. Appeared very dedicated and sincerely concerned regarding animal welfare in our community. Thank you Andrea and staff!
posted by BarbaraRosenblatt, on 2017-04-10 13:17:45
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Hello Im writing to request some help for the following dogs. they are se to die mon early, the new supervisor Kevin really wants to try & help these dogs but the shelter does not have any direct volunteer help from rescues or a page set up for networking on fb, can you help with rescue/adopt.foster anything? & even connect with Kevin for future collaboration your reply is much appreciated we have a team of awesome crossposters working around the clock trying to save them but we are not local,. here are the links to 5 urgents all links here http://www.adoptapet.com/pet/12071123-springfield-tennessee-pit-bull-terrier-mix http://www.adoptapet.com/pet/11992991-springfield-tennessee-pit-bull-terrier-mix https://www.facebook.com/pawspitparade/photos/a.370402766419622.1073741828.359026147557284/603615486431681/?type=1&relevant_count=1 https://www.facebook.com/pawspitparade/photos/a.370402766419622.1073741828.359026147557284/603613853098511/?type=1&relevant_count=1 https://www.facebook.com/203715703038037/photos/a.711562105586725.1073742059.203715703038037/711563042253298/?type=1&relevant_count=1 thank you!
posted by ReginaRianiQuinn, on 2014-12-14 14:23:09
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can you please tell me when you added East Ridge to the list, as of Thursday August 8th it was not on the list and is it the 1st shelter in Tennessee to become a no kill shelter.
posted by JeremyBryson, on 2013-08-10 14:32:56
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