Johnstown Pet Services, INC

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11/27/2022

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11/24/2022

With holidays around the corner, make sure you are super careful with your holiday decorations please!

11/19/2022

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07/01/2022

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Happy July 1st! Please remember this is the worst time of year for a lot of dogs. Please keep them safe. Take extra precautions when taking them out. If you don’t have a no-slip collar, go grab one. Much less chance of them either breaking it or slipping out of it when they hear a firework.

06/08/2022

UPDATE: Dog has been found and returned home! Thank you for your help.

MISSING DOG! PLEASE DO NOT CHASE, APPROACH, OR CALL!

Kenai (being called Kai), a husky mix, broke through the screen door of his foster-to-adopt home last night, June 7th, at about 9:30 p.m. He is missing from Westmont Borough near the Christ Lutheran Church on Elknud Lane. His home and the surrounding area are very new to him.

He is wearing a blue collar and a Humane Society of Cambria County ID Tag.

Please call 814-472-2100 with any sightings to help Kenai get back home.

05/24/2022

May is the time that deer begin birthing their fawns. We ask that you please adhere to the following guidelines, should you find one of these fawns, that the mother deer has TEMPORARILY put aside for the fawn's safety.

**Every springtime, the National Wildlife Federation gets numerous emails and phone calls from concerned people asking the following question:
“I found an abandoned fawn! Where can I take it?”

The answer is almost always the same:
The fawn isn’t abandoned and you should leave it right where it is.

Lone Fawns are Not Abandoned
There is a strong probability that you did not find an abandoned fawn. Female deer hide their newborn fawns in tall grass or brush and move some distance away to feed to avoid drawing predators to their offspring. With the proliferation of deer in suburban areas, sometimes this happens right in our own yards. The fawn simply waits in hiding until its mother returns. Soon, the fawns will be strong enough to follow the does and run from predators, and they no longer need to spend hours alone in hiding.
Though it seems that they are vulnerable, these young fawns are not totally helpless. Their spotted pelts look like dappled sunlight on the forest floor and offer great camouflage. They do not have strong scent that would attract predators. Fawns are also programmed to keep totally still and quiet when hiding while their mother forages. The combination of the physical attributes and the behavior of both does and fawns are remarkably successful at limiting depredation at such a vulnerable time.

“Rescuing” Fawns is Illegal
Wild animals don’t make good pets, and deserve to live wild and free. In fact, for some species there there are laws to protect wildlife from being taken from the wild by people. Well-meaning people who take fawns out of the wild and raise them violate these laws, often unwittingly and nearly always unnecessarily. Come spring, animal rescue centers are overloaded with “abandoned” fawns that never needed help from humans in the first place. You might mean well, but taking a fawn out of the wild is essentially “fawn-napping.”

And consider this: illegally raising deer fawns greatly reduces their chances of survival. It is difficult for an untrained person to provide a quality diet and captive care, and due to a hand-raised deer’s lack of fear of humans, these animals are more likely to be hit by cars, killed by dogs, or shot by hunters. The photo to the right shows what someone did to try and protect a “pet” wild deer from hunters: they put a collar on it. Unfortunately, this deer was totally unafraid of people, and walked right up to a hunter. Luckily for this particular animal, the hunter just snapped this picture and let it go on its way. The next time it approaches a human it will probably not be so lucky.

When to Intervene
There are cases where it is okay to help lone fawns. If you notice that a fawn is clearly injured or that it is near a dead adult doe, then it is acceptable to seek help. Start by calling your local animal control department or nature center, who can either take the animal or help locate a licensed wildlife rehabilitator who can. If a hidden fawn is discovered on your property, it’s up to you to keep your pet dogs and your children away from it.

Please do not closely approach or handle wildlife .

03/26/2022

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03/02/2022

Due to the increased price of fuel, we will be implementing a fuel surcharge on each visit, until further notice

02/13/2022

01/23/2022

FYI: The next 4-6 weeks is mating season for coyotes. Please do not let your dogs out alone. The coyote gets your dog to chase him and then somewhere in the distance the pack waits for your dog. Then the outcome is tragic as they can & will attack/kill your pets. Just be aware it can happen to your beloved pet. {Coyote breeding typically peaks in late February and early March, the gestation period averages 58 to 63 days. Male coyotes can become more aggressive during this time of year, the long and short of it all is that coyotes always pose a risk to your dog (and other small pets). That risk increases during mating season.

https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/coyotes-pets-and-community-cats

12/09/2021

Please bear with us as we are working through a catastrophic failure of our billing software. We are working closely with our programs IT dept. It's a slow process but we we'll get invoices and statements out as soon as possible. Once again thank you all for your loyal support🐶😺

11/27/2021

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