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Nash County Animal Shelter
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Why Spay or Neuter?
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We are working to save the homeless pets of Nash County, North Carolina. In 2009, 2,664 dogs and cats were killed (PTS) - 222 a month! In 2010, 2573 pets died. We must change that. Our goals include: To have no adopted pet leave the shelter unless they are spayed or neutered, reducing the number of unwanted animals. To encourage all pet owners to spay or neuter. To increase the adoptions from the shelter by promotion and extended adoption hours.
We are a new animal advocate group founded in August 2010. We will soon be a non-profit charity. Thanks to us, a mobile low-cost spay/neuter clinic now comes to Nashville once a month and eventually we hope to build our own spay/neuter clinic. We plan to assist families in need to spay/neuter their pets. We must stop the cycle of pet overpopulation, to keep them out of the shelter. We also wish to build an adoption center for all of the shelter’s adoptable pets. You can help us achieve these goals and save the pets of North Carolina. YOU are the SOLUTION!
We are sponsoring: Spay/Neuter for Shelter Adopted Pets. Feral Cat TNR. FIX MAMA for the mother of puppies or kittens that are turned into the Shelter, so there won't another litter PTS. Spay/Neuter for for families in need. Short-term fostering for out-of-state rescues. Education. Shelter Pet Promotions. & More!
Today you would only be able to give from your heart. Our 501(c)(3) non-profit charity request is pending. Once confirmed, your donations will be tax-deductable. Even as we wait for the government we will work to save the animals. All Directors and Officers are Volunteers. We are a non-profit corporation.
PayPal: Just click the button to donate. You do not have to have a PayPal account.
They accept credit cards.
Check: Nash Co Animal Friends, PO Box 1031, Nashville, NC 27856
Your support is needed in many ways. We need photographers, pet handlers, adoption assistants at the Shelter. You can short-term foster pets that are going out-of-state. Donate money or supplies. Volunteer your time, services or knowledge. Adopt from us or the shelter. Or just show your support by being a member. There is power in numbers. There are many things to do and we welcome your suggestions, ideas and help. We cannot let the animals suffer and die without trying!
* Four million cats and dogs – about one every eight seconds – are put down in US shelters each year. Often these animals are the offspring of cherished family pets. Spay/neuter is a proven way to reduce pet overpopulation, ensuring that every pet has a family to love them.
* 7 dogs & cats are born every day for each person born in the US. Of them 4 out of 5 are abandoned to the streets or end up at a shelter. Source: The Humane Society of the United States
* Left un-spayed and un-neutered, the animals adopted from the Nash County Animal Shelter will propagate far beyond the capacity of local adopters and rescuers, actually increasing our euthanized numbers.
* Help reduce the unwanted pet population by spaying & neutering as it is the humane way to stop the cycle.
3,055 pets ended up in this shelter in 2009
246 were adopted or rescued 106 were reclaimed by owners
2,664 euthanized - 87.2%
222 homeless pets a month died
1,580 cats & 1,084 dogs DIED
3,025 pets ended up in this shelter in 2010
376 were adopted or rescued 100 were reclaimed by owners
2,549 euthanized - 84.2%
212 homeless pets a month died
1,495 cats & 1,054 dogs DIED
Do you have room in your home and heart for a grateful, loving pet? There are so many dogs and cats who will die without you! Adopt and save a life. Love is waiting.
NCAF keeps the Nash County Animal Shelter PetFinder, Adopt-a-Pet and other adoption sites current. NCAF volunteer photographers go to the Shelter everyday! However, there are pets coming in quicker than we can keep up with. There are more pets at the Shelter than you will see on the adoption sites and because of the quick turnaround, some of the pets may on the sites may no longer be there or alive. So if you see a pet you want, please do not wait. Because of the small size of this Shelter, the turn-around time is short. If you have any questions about the availability of a pet, please call the Shelter direct at (252) 459-9855
The reality is that the Nash County Animal Shelter is EXTREMELY small. Only 16 dog kennels and only a few cat cages. Sad to say, they still also use the gas chamber. Currently 39% of the pets are PTS by humane injection, including babies under 4 months and pregnant animals. We wish for it to be 100% but more than that, we don't want any adoptable animal killed by any method.
(252) 459-9855
(252) 478-7101
To Our Supporters
~ The Nashville Graphic newspaper ~
They challeged us to create this group
and gives us super support!
Nash County Animal Shelter Spay/Neuter Program
Get Nash County to initiate a spay/neuter program. Ask for the minimal, but ask for the max and show them how easy the max will be. Our goal is to have all the pets adopted from the shelter be spayed/neutered. If we do this, their babies won’t be coming back, to be PTS. Even with some S/N programs in the USA, there are still 7 pets born each day for 1 person born each day. As long as these birth rates exist, there will never be enough homes. We want to eliminate ANY need for the pets to be PTS, because there will actually none available. Of course, common sense says there will always be those that have to be put to sleep (very ill/dying, violent, etc.). Eventually, there will be a decrease in strays and eliminate the pet overpopulation problem in our county. Of course, we must first have affordable spay/neuter clinics available and assist those families in need who may not be able to afford to fix their pet.
Shelter Adoptions
Increase the adoptions and rescues from the Nash County Animal Shelter.
• Promotion and Publicity Get the message out that they are not closed and have great animals. This includes publication of Shelter pets on Facebook and adoption sites, such as Petfinder and Adopt-a-Pet.
• Saturday Adoptions. Obviously the Shelter needs to be open when people can adopt. Currently they are only open 1-4pm, Mon-Fri. We are willing to staff with volunteers!
• Visibility We have asked the administrtors for better signage, both directional and at the Shelter’s entrance.
• The Future Someday, an “Adoption Center” where the pets have been spay/neutered and UTD on immunizations. The pets in this Adoption Center will come from the Nash County Animal Shelter. An Adoption Center would allow families to adopt with ease. The Center would also assist rescues groups, thru the Clinic.
• Short Term Foster Program There are homes available in the NE states, due to their excellent spay/neuter policies. To transport a pet out of state, they must go thru a quarantine period and receive a Health Certificate. We currently work with sponsoring rescues in several states. We need foster homes for pets to stay for 2-6 weeks, while they get their spay/neuter, immunizations and transport arranged .
Community Outreach Program
• Adopted Pet Health Program. Veterinarians participating in the Friends program will do spay/neutering, rabies, physical exam, flea treatment, etc. at a discounted package rate for those pets adopted from the Nash County Animal Shelter. This will be for the initial visit(s). Then hopefully they will continue to bring their pets back for their care, including heartworm prevention. Talk to your vet about helping!
• Spay/Neuter Options Brochure "Adopt, Spay and Neuter or PTS" Given to the general public and for all Shelter visitors/adopters. Given out at events, adopt-a-thons and at any opportunity we have to educate and help. The brochure includes affordable clinics, clinics that will help families in need, plus participating vets. Adopt from the Shelter promotion. Plus good reasons that you should spay/neuter your pets. We must stop the cycle!
• Spay/Neuter Clinic . We have arranged to have POP-NC, a mobile affordable spay/neuter clinic come to the Nash County Animal Shelter in Nashville, NC They come about once a month. All are welcomed. Appointment only. For more information or appointments, go to POP-NC.com or call 919-942-2250. Someday, NCAF plans to have their own Spay/Neuter Clinic to fix all the Shelter pets. The Clnic will be part one of the future Adoption Center facility.
Advertising Adoptable Pets
We advertise the Nash County Animal Shelter pets on various adoption sites, such as PetFinder and Adopt-a-Pet, plus Facebook. This includes but is not limited to picture taking, obtaining animals’ history, determining the animal’s personality and posting. We will also assist in advertising foster pets that our members have rescued. The member’s rescues must be spay/neutered and UTD on immunizations before we advertize.
This list is, of course, not complete and flexible to change. This list is not necessarily in order of importance or need. Our goal is to save the pets through spay/neuter, adoption and rescue . You can help by donating. We need you! Volunteer Coordinators and Workers, Fosters and Adopters.
Together, we can save the homesless pets of North Carolina! YOU are the SOLUTION!
Founder & President
Carol Vierela
Vice President
Misty Barker
Treasurer
Open
Secretary
Meagan Johnson
Kathleen Hoots
Tina Narron
Jennifer Capps
Donna Meyer
Alex Flora
Jodie Davis
Patricia Nemec
Open for Adoptions Monday-Friday, 1-4 pm
(am by appointment)
Directions: The Shelter is located at 921 North 1st Street Extension, Nashville (If using a Navigator, use the address 921 Red Oak Hwy). It does need better signs, but it is actually easy to find. Just turn onto North 1st Street from E. Washington (note: Eastern turns into E.Washington), going toward Red Oak. This is NC-1003. Drive 0.8 miles (you will go over US-64). The Shelter’s gravel road is on the right, in a wooded area.
Hope
This little dog represents the hope that all of the Shelter animals will find loving homes. Hope was found as a stray. We think because she had health probems, her people just threw her away. A little 4.4 pound Malipoo who was someone's special baby at one time. The Shelter's Manager asked for our help, so she became our first rescue. Adopted by our founder, she found love and comfort in her last days.
Zoey
Missy
Nash
Paco
Ruby plus Elvis, Beau, Cookie, Rebel, Duke & Rocky
Angel, Nick, Belle, Mary, Dash, Dickens & Holly
Female pets live longer, healthier lives. Helps prevent uterine infections and breast cancer.
Female pets won’t go into heat. No advertising for males. Fewer accidents in the house. Calmer.
Will it make your pet fat? If any pet doesn’t get enough exercise or too much food, it will get fat. Just as we do!
Cost effective. Less than the cost of having and caring for one or more litters.
Male pets experience major health benefits . Helps prevent testicular cancer, if done before 6 months old.
Males will stay home better. Won’t go roaming after females. Cuts back on traffic injuries and deaths. Won’t fight other males over a female.
Males will be much better behaved. Will bond better with your family. Less aggressive. Won’t mark their territory.
Good for the community. Less strays, less problems, fewer killed in the shelters.
Help prevent pet overpopulation. Nash County Animal Shelter kills over 200 pets a month, due to irresponsible pet owners. Of course, there are some families in need, so that is why we are working to obtain low-cost spay/neuter options.
Accidental Litters. No Excuse! The only sure pet birth control is spaying or neutering.
Can you have a litter so the children can experience the miracle of birth? Are you keeping them or have homes for everyone? No? Then they are throwaways. Be a better role model by spaying or neutering.
Love Longer. Pets live 2-3 years longer.
On July 29, 2010, the Nashville Graphic newspaper, appalled at the problems at the Nash County Animal Shelter, issued a challenge for someone to form a Friends group. What sickened me more than anything else is the fact that there were more than 200 homeless pets killed each month (PTS). After getting tired of waiting for someone else to do something, I realized I had to be the one. However, a group is more than one, so we extend our hand to you to join us in this effort.
It takes awhile to get a non-profit charity going, so if you wish to give, it would be just from your heart. But we aren’t standing here with our hand out all the time. Admittedly, we are short of funds. Start costs are awful. Just to file for our 501(c)(3) is over $850 and liability insurance is over $600! Asking for donations is not why I am reaching out to you. People would like to know what is happening in our state, in our county. We wish we could just go in and snatch out every pets from the shelter. But that can’t happen today.
We do have a lot of plans. Such as:
• Change the Shelter’s policies about spay/neuter. We must stop the cycle of one adopted pet going out the front door and many, many, of their offspring coming back and going out the back door (killed, PTS). This cycle must be stopped. There just aren’t enough homes for all the pets unless we work on the pet overpopulation problem.
• Get the Shelter to be open for adoptions on Saturday and later weekday hours. Currently they are only open 1-4pm Mon-Fri.
• Help out-of-state rescues save the pets of Nash County by short-term fostering during the quarantine.
• Assist families in need to have their pets spay/neutered. • Have low cost spay/neuter clinics.
• Educate the public about why we should spay/neuter. We now have a brochure "Adopt, Spay and Neuter or PTS". We will hand out at the events and the Shelter.
• Someday, our own low-cost spay/neuter clinic & an adoption center.
All of this will take time, a lot of money, but most of all a lot of caring people, like you. Thank you. Carol Vierela
FOSTER A CAT or DOG and SAVE A LIFE. In order to carry out our mission and save pets, we need foster parents to provide a safe, loving home for a cat or dog until a permanent, adoptive home is found. It takes a special person to become a Foster. Are you that person? Download a foster application today!
We provide all foster pets with veterinary care and medication. Foster parents are asked to supply food, toys, supplies, bedding, and tons of tender love and care. As a foster parent, you will watch amazing transformations in your foster pet as he/she becomes healthy, confident and ready for a forever home. If there is a financial need, we will provide supplies.
YOUR ROLE AS A FOSTER FAMILY We carefully match up foster dogs/puppies and cats/kittens with foster parents based on what works for your household. Some people choose to foster a puppy or two, or even a litter; others prefer a small adult dog or a large dog and some prefer adult cats. We work with you to find the best possible match. Bear in mind that a shelter environment followed by a rescue can be very stressful and traumatic for many animals. In your home they will have a chance to feel safe and secure, to be loved, nurtured, exercised and socialized. We will ask that you crate-train dogs and teach them basic obedience. A well-trained dog is much more likely to make a successful transition to a permanent home than a dog with no training and who is not housebroken. The gift of training helps to give the ultimate gift – a permanent home to your furry friend.
We work hard to find the right home for your foster pet from the moment it is rescued. Foster pets may stay at their temporary homes from a few days to weeks and sometimes even months. It all depends on the animal and the amount of time the foster parent can commit to the process. Foster families may be asked to show their foster pet to potential adopters or make the animal available to be shown at a mobile adoption. Nice photographs and good descriptions from the foster family help to expedite the adoption process..
Homeless pets come into shelter year round so we are always in need of foster homes. Our foster parents are a critical piece of the rescue process and we are deeply indebted to them for their willingness to welcome new members into their lives. It buys us time to find a new place for the pets to call home. Foster periods may vary from a couple of weeks to several months - but the impact on the person and pet last a lifetime.
THE POSSIBILITY OF ADOPTION It happens. You fall in love with the wonderful dog or cat for whom you’ve been a lifeline after shelter-life. Not to worry. You’re in good company. As the foster family, you will usually have first option to permanently adopt your new family member to be part of your lives, for life.
NOTES: You must be 18 or older to be a Foster Parent and have family participation. If renting, you must have permission from your landlord that you can have pets in your home. You must live and house foster pets within an short drive from Nashville, NC. All of your dogs and cats must be spay/neutered unless due to health/age reasons. If you have room and love in your home for one more animal, please contact us.
First, let’s clarify who the Nash County Animal Friends are. We are an animal advocacy group for Nash County, NC. We are working to increase adoptions from the Nash County Shelter, including having the Shelter open on Saturdays. Currently they are only open 1-4pm, Mon-Fri. Inaccessibility to adopters is a big key to the fact that they kill over 200 pets a month.
We promote spay/neutering as the only way to stop the animal overpopulation problem. This is the biggest reason animals come into the Shelter. This can be done through several fronts. Requiring spay/neutering as an adoption requirement. Have a Feral Cat TNR Program (Trap/Neuter or Spay/Return). Have low-cost spay/neuter clinics. We will work on all of these fronts, eventually having the funds to pay for a pet’'s spay/neuter for owners without the financial means.
Our dream, someday, is to have our own low-cost spay/neuter clinic and an adoption center/shelter. We do rescue some pets, but only those from the Shelter, those at risk of being killed. We will do this as we have foster homes and funds.
If you have a dog/cat that you need to find a home for, there are only a few ways we can help you at this time. We can give you a list of where you can place a free ad, either online or in print. If your animal has been spay/neutered and up to date on immunizations, we will be place a courtesy listing on Adopt-a-Pet and PetFinder. But we cannot take your animal or help in other ways at this time. We do not have a shelter and our foster homes are only used for pets from the shelter. At this time, your animal is safe with you.
If you have a feral cat colony, you will not be able to tame them enough to be pets, unless you are extremely lucky. The best option is to have the cats trapped, fixed and returned (TNR). Eventually, they will die out naturally in their own time. If you call Animal Control, they will put them up for adoption, but most likely they will be put to sleep. At this time, we do not have the funds to help everyone with TNR, but there may be some cat groups in your area that may help if we cannot. We have a list of low-cost spay/neuter clinics and cat groups that we will be glad to give you.
Just to clarify, we do not have a shelter nor are we affiliated with the Shelter. We focus on the Shelter, since that is where many of the unwanted pets end up at. We suggest that you do not turn your pet into the Nash County Animal Shelter, because they are not obligated to put your pet up for adoption. In fact, quite the opposite. When you turn in a pet to the County Shelter, you might as well sign their death warrant. Sad, but true.
We understand your concern and that you care for your pets. But we are limited in what we can do. We thank you for trying to find good options, if you cannot keep your pet. We wish we could help more.
Application for Pet Adoption or Foster Program.pdf
Volunteer Form.pdf
Fill out all pages when applying to be a Foster Parent. We no longer foster till adopt.
We only do short-term (2-6 weeks) for other rescues during the period they need for quarantines.
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