Metro Animal Services

10/27/2025

🌱 Wildlife P**p Helps Nature 💩 Dog P**p? Not At All.

Wildlife p**p naturally fertilizes the ground, but dog waste is different— packed with harmful bacteria like E. coli, parasites, and viruses that can linger in the soil for years. When left on the ground, rain can wash it into storm drains and straight into our river and waterways. 🚱

This pollutes our water, disrupts aquatic life, and puts both you, your pets and our community at risk.

🐾 Your dog’s p**p doesn’t belong in nature.

Always remember to:
✅Bring it. Always carry p**p bags!
✅Scoop it. Use it like a glove, scoop it up, tie it tight.
✅Trash it. Never leave it behind—dispose of it in a trash can.

👉 Protect our rivers, parks, and paws today! Take the pledge to Scoop the P**p and keep our water clean and our community healthy! Click below to take the pledge to Scoop the P**p today! 🌊♻️
https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/pwsJ8iUvQM?origin=lprLink

10/21/2025

💩 It’s Just One Pile… What’s the Big Deal?

It’s a huge deal. Here’s the scoop:

⚠️ Because of their stomach enzymes and diet, dog p**p is packed with nitrogen and phosphorus. That unscooped p**p in yards, parks, and sidewalks washes into our lakes, creeks, rivers, and even our groundwater. 🌊💧 fueling toxic blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) blooms.

These toxic blooms:
✅ Make water unsafe to drink
✅ Kill fish and harm pets & wildlife
✅ Shut down swimming and recreation

👉 You can make a pawsitive impact! Take the pledge to Scoop the P**p and keep our water clean and our community healthy! Click below to take the pledge to Scoop the P**p today! https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/pwsJ8iUvQM?origin=lprLink

Always remember to:
✅Bring it. Always carry p**p bags!
✅Scoop it. Use it like a glove, scoop it up, tie it tight.
✅Trash it. Never leave it behind—dispose of it in a trash can.

**p

10/16/2025

Hello my name is Sally and I'm a female 3-year-old brown tabby. I love to get pets and making new friends with all that come to see me. I also enjoy to give hugs and enjoy snuggles. I'm super friendly with lots of love to give to the special person that makes me part of the family.

10/15/2025

Hello my name is Cojo, I am a red and brown Rooster, about 2 years old. When I get told I am a pretty boy, I stand up straight and tall! I also enjoy scratching at the hay my current keepers place on the floor. I also like to hear myself cock-a-dodado. It sure would be nice if I could have a flock to call my own. Wont you come listen to me sing to you today?

10/14/2025

🐶💩 DID YOU KNOW? 💩🐶

Pet waste is raw sewage 🚫 — it can transmit harmful bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens like tapeworm, roundworm, E. coli, giardia, salmonella to you, your children, your neighbors and your dogs 🦠😷. And that’s not even mentioning the damage it does to our waterways and parks. 🌊

👶 Kids are especially at risk from parasites like:
• Roundworms → can cause blindness 😢
• Giardia & E. coli → cause nasty, painful stomach bugs 🤢
• Toxoplasmosis → dangerous during pregnancy ⚠️

☠️ One ounce of dog p**p can contain 652 million bacteria.

Protect your loved ones, your dog, your neighbor, our parks, our river and water🐕

👉Make a pawsitive impact. Click the link to take the pledge to Scoop the P**p today!
https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/pwsJ8iUvQM?origin=lprLink

Always remember to:
✅Bring it. Always carry p**p bags!
✅Scoop it. Use it like a glove, scoop it up, tie it tight.
✅Trash it. Never leave it behind—dispose of it in a trash can.

**p 🧼🐾

10/13/2025

Metro Animal Shelter is closed Monday 10.13.2025 in observation of Columbus day. We will resume normal business hours Tuesday 10.14.2025.

Metro Animal Protection Officers are still available from 8am-6pm via our non-emergency dispatch line at 307-235-8278.

10/05/2025