Leslie Fosters

09/02/2026

🐾 Spay & Neuter: A Simple Step That Makes a Big Difference 🐾

Every pet deserves a safe, healthy, and loving home. Spaying and neutering not only helps reduce pet overpopulation, but it can also provide important health and behavioral benefits for your furry family members. ❤️

By choosing to spay or neuter your pet, you're helping prevent unwanted litters and reducing the number of animals that end up in shelters waiting for a home.

💙 Need help with the cost? The Joplin Health Department offers a financial assistance program to help eligible pet owners in Joplin access spay and neuter services for their pets.

If you've been considering spaying or neutering your dog or cat, now is a great time to learn more about the resources available in our community. Call us at 417-623-6122 or pick up an application at 321 E 4th St, lower entrance.

Together, we can help keep pets healthy, families happy, and reduce homelessness among animals in Joplin. 🐶🐱

Joplin Animal Control - Promoting responsible pet ownership and a healthier community for pets and people alike. 🐾
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Joplin Animal Control officers are dispatched through the Joplin Health Department at 417-623-6122 during business hours. After 5pm, weekends, and holidays, call the Joplin Police Department's non-emergency number at 417-623-3131. Service is limited on weekends.

https://www.joplinmo.org/327/Animal-Control

08/21/2026

07/30/2026

U.S. health officials are increasingly worried about Sporothrix brasiliensis, a fungal pathogen that spreads through cats.

Infected cats will develop painful skin ulcers and swollen lymph glands. When left untreated, the fungus spreads through the body, eventually becoming fatal. It can also jump to humans, who also develop painful skin lesions after being scratched or bitten by infected cats. It can kill a person in severe cases, especially if the person is immunocompromised.

05/16/2026

04/24/2026

Delighted to announce Didi has been adopted! It’s a little bittersweet because she’s such a lovey girl, but she deserves to be spoiled!

04/16/2026

Anna is doing great in her forever home! Her momma is giving her time to settle before introductions with her new sister, so no action photos yet. We’re so happy for Anna!

04/01/2026

Great news! Anna has been adopted! She has an amazing life ahead of her with the perfect adopter! She’ll have a kitty sister, Chanel, and they look so much alike that it had to be fate.

Didi is still looking for her perfect family. She is a great girl and I’ll share some updates about her soon.

And Rio … well, Rio is coming around. There’s a pretty good chance he’s going to be a foster fail. He’s at least 13 and to be honest, his heart is still healing from the upheaval. (Mine too, buddy.)