Fees Waived this Week for Dog Adoptions at ERAS

Crystal Reno, Supervisor of the East Ridge Animal Services Department, announced Tuesday that all adoption fees for dogs will be waived this week.

“The shelter is full of amazing dogs awaiting their forever home,” Reno said in an email to East Ridge News Online. “So what are you waiting for? Don’t miss out on the opportunity to find your new best friend!”

Reno said all the dogs are spayed/neutered and up-to-date on all vaccinations, heartworm tested and on a preventative medication.

Reno advised anyone interested to check out the Animal Services’ Website to view all the dogs available. Or, you can stop by the shelter at 1015 Yale St., behind Parkridge East hospital

Here’s a link to their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/EastRidgeAnimalServices/

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.