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Director Sarah Green
201 Willinger Lane
Phone: 812-282-0071, Fax:
812-285-6458
Call the Jeffersonville Police
Department (812-283-6633) for after-hours animal control
assistance.
Hours: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., M-F;
8 a.m.-4 p.m., Sat.
The J.B. Ogle Animal Shelter is owned
and operated by the City of Jeffersonville, but provides animal
shelter services (not animal control, however) to other areas of
Clark County -- including Borden, Charlestown, Clarksville,
Sellersburg, Utica and unincorporated areas of Clark County --
through a series of interlocal agreements.
Within Jeffersonville, the J.B. Ogle
Animal Shelter & Animal Control enforces Indiana Code (IC 15-20 Animal Control and
IC 15-21 Commercial Dog Breeder) and local ordinances (2005-OR-045
and
2006-OR-014) relating to animals within the city. The agency
assists law enforcement in the enforcement of state criminal law
relating to animals under
Indiana Code 35-46-3.
Due to the work of the Clark County Spay
and Neuter Program and animal rescue organizations such as the
Humane Association of Clark County, the
Kentuckiana Animal Rescue Organization and the
Kentucky Humane Society, the number of dogs
euthanized annually at the J.B. Ogle Animal Shelter has decreased
dramatically. During 2007, 808 dogs were put down at the shelter,
but the number decreased to 236 -- or about 20 per month -- by 2009.
Now, nearly almost all adoptable dogs that come to the shelter find
homes and those that are euthanized generally fall into one of two
categories: unadoptable due to illness or aggression or an animal
owner paying the shelter to put down an old or sick dog.
Many animals available for adoption from
the J.B. Ogle Animal Shelter can be seen at
PetFinder.
Travis Jackson, Animal Control Officer
Cindy Kaiser, Operations Coordinator Ed
White, Animal Control Officer
Local ordinances determine how long the
J.B. Ogle Animal Shelter must hold animals, based on which the
community from which an animal was brought to the shelter.
Jeffersonville,
Charlestown,
Sellersburg and unincorporated Clark County (Clark
Clark County Commissioners) require that animals be held for a
minimum of five days.
The
Town of Clarksville requires that animals be held for a minimum
of seven days.
In some cases, fees or fines must be
paid before an animal can be returned to its owner.
Adoption fees are $85 for female dogs,
$75 for male dogs, $60 for female cats and $40 for male cats.
These fees include spaying or neutering
and rabies shots. In addition, each adopted dog receive as "pyrantel"
shot and each adopted cat receives a "nemex" shot.
All dogs that are adopted are implanted
with a microchip identification tag which can identify the animal in
the event that it is lost. Most shelters and veterinary clinics in
North America have the ability to read these chips.
Once an animal is chosen for adoption
and a deposit has been paid, spaying or neutering is scheduled. The
remainder of the adoption fee is due when the animal is picked up.
Adopted animals may be picked up one day after spaying or neutering.
The veterinarians who work with the J.B. Ogle Animal Shelter
generally perform spay/neuter procedures on the shelter's behalf one
day each week, but the specific day of the week varies.
The City of Jeffersonville and the J.B.
Ogle Animal Shelter encourage those who would be responsible pet
owners to adopt animals from shelters, whether a public shelter such
as J.B. Ogle or the
New Albany/Floyd County Animal Shelter or a privately-funded
shelter.
However, it is important that people
understand what "no-kill" means in most cases.
A private shelter has the option of
turning away animals that cannot be adopted because they are ill or
aggressive. A public shelter such as J.B. Ogle does not. If a
private shelter inadvertently ends up with an animal that cannot be
adopted -- in order words, an animal that must be euthanized either
to be humane to the animal or for the safety of humans and other
animals -- a private shelter will bring such an animal to the J.B.
Ogle Animal Shelter, where it will eventually need to be destroyed.
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