"True love is a hop, skip, and a dog shelter away!"
Charlotte/Mecklenburg's Animal Care & Control are way over capacity and need people to adopt dogs as soon as possible to avoid having to put any animals down. Adopt a dog and save a life!
CMPD Animal Care and Control have more than 28 dogs needing kennels. Some kennels are already being shared by two or three dogs at the same time. The shelter also does not have enough staff and volunteers to properly care for so many dogs. CMPD is waiving adoption fees … (38 comments)
Over 3 million dogs are placed in shelters every year. Unfortunately, many (millions) are euthanized because a home can't be found for them. If you've been thinking about acquiring a dog, please consider adopting one from your local shelter. If you can't adopt, perhaps you could consider fostering or making a monetary donation to your local shelter.
October is Adopt A Shelter Dog Month at the Humane Society of Charlotte... and across the nation, as a matter of fact. If you've been thinking about "adding" to your family, why not adop a shelter dog?
As the Humane Society of Charlotte puts it... "come meet our adorable canines and you may just have a new walking buddy, couch potato partner or forever friend." Here's your link to meet some of the Humane Society of Charlotte's dogs available for adoption.
Charlotte Weenie Walk, previously a bi-annual event in Charlotte and now planned to be a quarterly event, was created to bring the community together to share in the love of the dachshund breed, as well as to create awareness for the breed’s need in the Charlotte community. The event is hosted by Charlotte Weenie Walk and Chapman's Dachshund Rescue in York, South Carolina, whose mission is to "do whatever possible to find the … (28 comments)
If you've been thinking about adopting a cat or a dog (or maybe one of or more of each), this is the weekend to do it. Animal welfare organizations will be on site at many PetSmart stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. They'll make it easy for you to find your purrfect fur-ever companion(s). That's how I found two of my dogs--through these PetSmart Charities … (40 comments)
April 30th is National Adopt A Shelter Pet Day. Today is a great day to adopt a shelter pet in the Charlotte, North Carolina metro area (or anywhere else for that matter). Millions of homeless dogs and cats are housed in shelters in the Charlotte metro area, as well as all around the country.
It's estimated that over 2.5 million dogs and cats are adopted annually from shelters in the USA. But that's on top of some 3 million that are euthanized each year! Keep in mind that when you adopt a shelter pet, you are saving a life.
CHARLOTTE'S CMPD ANIMAL CARE& CONTROL OVER CAPACITY WITH DOGS NEEDING ADOPTION
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