We hope you'll join us on the evening of Tuesday, Feb 21st from 6:30-7:30 pm to learn about our community's cat issues and how you can help by joining our ACT Team. ACT (Apartment Cat TNR) is a new pilot program at MCAS aimed at tackling cat overpopulation head on!  ACT focuses on one apartment complex at a time with a goal of  spaying and neutering ALL cats living there, whether owned, stray, abandoned, or feral. Come learn about the cat problem right here in the Portland metropolitan area, and how trap/neuter/return (TNR) can help!  

In 2006, MCAS was the first shelter in Oregon to be accredited by the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA). This is an accomplishment achieved by only 15% of vet clinics in the US and Canada. We're pleased to announce that MCAS has just earned it's AAHA re-accreditation. You can read more about it in our press release.

We're pleased to announce a brand new service for lost pet owners in Multnomah County. MCAS will now be periodically creating videos of the lost cats and dogs in our intake kennels and posting the videos on our web site. It is our goal to reunite as many lost animals with their owners as possible. We still recommend that people come out to the shelter in person whenever possible, but we hope that having this service available between visits will be helpful for owners of lost pets.

Brady is the K013 Pet of the Week! He's a brilliant and active young man looking for a home who will provide daily exercise, guidance, and training to help him into adulthood. He's still young and has a lot to learn, like how hard is too hard when taking a treat! The shelter will require that his adopter take classes with him and is not recommending him for a home with young kids. He's cute and easy to train- he's sure to charm someone! Maybe you? He's about 6 months of age and weighs 44lbs.

Porter and Percy were our K103 Pets of the Week today! They're brothers that came in to the shelter together but will adjust and flourish once separated.  Shy at first, once you connect with them, they are sold on you (lots of licks, kisses, and wiggles). We know these boys will be great canine citizens when they complete their required classes. You may view Porter and Percy's profiles here.

A local family's chihuahua was recently lost when she got loose after the family's car was involved in a head-on collision. She was lost for six days before another family found her and brought her to the MCAS shelter in Troutdale. She was reunited with her family through the help of a microchip. You can view the whole KOIN Local 6 story here.

The first phone call came in at 10:18 am on Monday morning. It was quickly followed by dozens of frantic phone calls about a dog running loose on the eastbound lanes of Hwy 84. Police and four Multnomah County Animal Control units quickly responded. Working together with police, officers Jason Bryant, Tom Landaker, Marc Rose and Vicki Havlik eventually managed to rescue the loose dog from the median of Hwy 205 near Prescott and Sandy. You can view a video of the rescue here.

Chaka was our K103 Pet of the Week today!She's loyal, mature, housetrained and well behaved. She's also playful and gets along well with children. She needs to be the only pet in her new forever home. As a bonus, she will provide free squirrel patrol for your yard! Chaka is available for adoption right now.