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Special delivery: Donations for pets Readers exceed goal of $10,000 for shelters Help us reach $10,000 for local animal rescue groups! Money flowing in for local animal shelters Sibling kittens and Lab mixes Welcome The Cat People to Pets of the Week Take home a new pet today! Tails Of Bakersfield Video: Spotlighting the SPCA Adopt a pet The Cat Is Out Of The Bag! Get your Pet Pic in TBC! June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 February 09 March 09 April 09 May 09 June 09 July 09 August 09 September 09 October 09 November 09 Get involved at these events How to adopt a local pet: ALPHA Canine, open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. For directions: alphacanine.org. Call 391-8212 for an appointment. Kern County Animal Shelter, 201 S. Mount Vernon Ave., 868-7144, www.co.kern.ca.us/acd. Open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday through Saturday; 2 to 7 p.m. Wednesday. Bakersfield SPCA, 3000 Gibson St., 323-8353, www.bakersfieldspca.org. Open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; noon to 6:30 p.m. Thursday. The Cat People, 327-4706, www.thecatpeople.org. Cats are adopted by application and interview for a refundable $50 at the Rosedale Petco from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. most Saturdays. 
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Tails Of Bakersfield Video: Spotlighting the SPCA
Location:
3000 Gibson St,
Bakersfield, CA
In March and April of this year, over 2,700 cats and dogs were euthanized in Kern County. There are many pet shelters in Bakersfield that are no kill, and in our TBC Gives video produced by Louis Medina, we spotlight one of them- the Bakersfield SPCA. Click here to watch the video. --Mary Russo 1 comments from 1 users
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posted by
bakoblue
on Jun 23, 2008 at 12:51 PM
Yes, the Bakersfield SPCA is a no-kill shelter, meaning that no healthy, adoptable animals are euthanized. But before people start separating shelters based on whether or not they euthanize pets, please keep in mind that the way many no-kill shelters remian no-kill is by closing their doors to additional animals when they are full. Facilities such as the Kern County Animal Control Department are not able to tell people to try back next week because they don't have the room right now to take in any more pets. Thus, they are placed in a position where some unwanted pets are euthanized to maintain space for the unending stream of animals coming in through the front door. That doesn't make KCAC bad. It just makes them the agency that has to do what the other agencies in the area choose not to do. For the Bakersfield SPCA logo go to bakersfieldspca.org. It's in the upper left.
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