Petstore Cruelty

Please watch this very brief slideshow (warning: graphic). Every DAY, a minimum of 11,000 dogs and cats are killed in U.S. shelters. This is why it really does matter where you get your family's newest dog, cat, rabbit, or other companion.

http://www.spotsociety.org/fatedog.html

Visit www.shelterrescue.org/id20.html to see photos of many beautiful, adoptable cats and dogs who were killed in shelters.

And please watch this slide show about Wilson, a homeless dog who was rescued and became a therapy dog: http://tinyurl.com/3872wq

All over the U.S., millions of innocent animals are killed EVERY year in "shelters." We use quotation marks because the word "shelter" implies that they are safe, and they are not. Wherever they came from, their lives are in grave danger even at the shelter, where so many are killed by lethal injection or gas chambers, and sometimes even by gunshot. Some forward-thinking individuals are changing this horrible situation and working extremely hard to make their shelters go no-kill, but the vast majority of shelters have a long way to go before they truly become shelters and not just animal CONTROL.

Animals wind up at the shelter in a variety of ways. Two of the most common reasons for give-ups are moving and allergies. The animals may have been rescued from an abusive situation, or they may have gotten lost. They may have been given up by someone who became ill. They may have been abandoned by someone who bought a pet store bunny, bird, or ferret on impulse without realizing these animals need time and care. Pet shop animals can be so physically and emotionally damaged from their puppy mill/pet shop experience that they are far more than their guardians bargained for, so they end up at shelters, too.

Because shelters are perpetually full of animals in need of homes, even the most beloved animals are often only ONE HUMAN away from disaster. When the loving guardian becomes sick or dies and does not have a friend or relative who can help, that pampered animal is in as much danger as any other at the shelter.

Many people are under the impression that only animals who are defective in some way are killed in shelters. This is untrue. Perfectly healthy, loving, beautiful animals are killed every day, including baby animals who have not even had a chance to live. Some shelter workers care so deeply about this crisis that they use their websites to display the beautiful animals that were killed because they were not adopted. Please visit www.shelterrescue.org/id20.html to see some of the animals that did not make it it out of the shelter alive. This cat and puppy are just two of the millions of animals killed in shelters every single year.

Many shelters just take in animals, kill them, and perpetuate this cycle of misery without taking a stand. We appreciate the words on this GOVERNMENT website for the shelter in Augusta, Georgia:

http://www.augustaga.gov/departments/animal_services/euthanasia.asp

In springtime, shelters are overwhelmed with kittens. A cat rescuer writes: "It's unbelievable how many litters are out there with no one to take them in and tame/care for/adopt them out. It's ludicrous to buy a kitten from anywhere when there are thousands of kittens needing homes. They only have 6-8 months to get a home; then they become young adults and are passed over for smaller kittens. If they don't get lucky and get adopted, they're adults before you know it and competing with kittens is even harder."

Even the worst shelters do not ADD to the problem, as pet stores do. Purely for the sake of making money, pet stores sell large numbers of animals, often bred and transported under horrendous conditions, with total disregard for the deaths of the exact same type of animals at shelters right down the street! For instance, Petland often sells puppies for over $2,000. Some Petlands sell "ragdoll" kittens for over $1,000. While they rake in profits, dogs and cats available at the local shelter die a miserable, premature death, even though the cost of adoption, including spaying or neutering, is usually well under $100 (one hundred) dollars.

Please SAVE A LIFE. ADOPT FROM THE SHELTER, and make sure you SPAY OR NEUTER your animals.

Every shelter is different. Some shelters do their very best to get animals adopted. Many others have very limited adoption hours and do not put forth much of an effort at all. Here are some photos of animals killed at a "shelter" that rescue groups attempted to work with (February, 2007), but to no avail:

www.needfulsouls.org/main/index.php?template=KILLED_BY_FLOYD_AC

At the same site you can find 144 more pictures of dogs killed at shelters:

http://www.needfulsouls.org/main/categories.php?cat_id=1

"Euthanasia" at shelters often involves tremendous suffering, especially in those shelters that still kill by means of GAS CHAMBERS. Please visit http://apbtrr.tripod.com/thedavidsoncountyncanimalshelterintothekillbox/id8.html for several eyewitness accounts of how animals die in gas chambers. Here is one account from that site. Although this happened in 1988, gassing is still going on in exactly the same way TODAY.

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Do you HAVE to have a PUREBRED PUPPY? Why? This obsession for purebred puppies is partly responsible for the deaths of animals in shelters. Many of the dogs in shelters are young adults, just past the teething stage (that time when they chew up everything in your house), and much more easily housetrained than a young puppy. Enjoy the benefits of adopting an adult dog, whether a purebred or mixed breed. And if you really want to make a needy dog happy, adopt an elderly dog. Check out this November 2007 article in a Virginia newspaper about the joys of adopting a senior (11 years and up) dog:

http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=137483&ran=64333

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Shelters are not responsible for the creation of homeless animals, but many changes need to happen before the killing of innocent animals stops. Here is some advice from a rescuer on how to bring about change at your local shelter:

PLEASE FORWARD AND CROSSPOST * READ AND TAKE ACTION! From: Cougy@aol.com Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:21:28 EST Dear Rescue Community, For too long shelters have been getting away with murder. They kill what they want, when they want, all in the "best interest" of the animals and the local community.

As rescuers we know first-hand that this mass killing is not in the best interest of the animals or the community. It is in the best interest of the shelters -- the very same shelters we fund with our money, that we intrust to do the right thing.

We can take back the power!

It is being proven right now, in cases across the USA, that it can be done. Right now, Roicy, a high kill gas shelter in Lafayette, Louisiana, is in the midst of a court case initiated by Garo Alexanian, a front-runner in national animal advocacy. In Los Angeles County, Cathy Nguyen, a volunteer animal rescuer, and Rebecca Arvizu, a Los Angeles County taxpayer, initiated a lawsuit against six LA county shelters regarding the disregard for the health and welfare of animals in their care. (Lawsuit summary below). In the southeast, the North Carolina Animal Advocates shut down more than 19 gas chambers in that state and continue to fight the system and win!

You don't have to file a full-fledged lawsuit -- you already have rights under the Freedom of Information act. According to this law -- anyone, anywhere, for any reason, can request information from the government under the Freedom of Information Act.

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a federal law, enacted in 1966, that makes government information accessible to the people. The law is based on the presumption that individuals have a right to know what their government is up to and that government agencies have a duty to provide full disclosure of all records that are not specifically and reasonably exempt. This law covers city and county run shelters! You have the right to their records. Starting with a simple letter you can begin the crackdown on shelters in your state. A simple letter that will stir them up for sure, and perhaps start changes immediately when the shelter realizes taxpayers are using their legal rights to demand the shelter's very secret killing documents.

If you have any questions, or will be going forward with a Freedom of Information Act request, please contact me directly at Cougy@aol.com. (cougyataoldotcom). Advocacy front runner Garo Alexanian has previously stated he would help with his input on any request filings around the USA. So let's take back the power.

The following is a sample letter and information from the First Amendment Center: www.firstamendmentcenter.org

How to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request The procedure for filing a request for information is straightforward, and involves simply writing a letter to the appropriate agency including the most precise detail possible about the information you are seeking. The Department of Transportation, for example, offers this basic guide: "Your request must be in writing and include the following information:

Provide your name, address and telephone number. Also, if you have an email address, please provide it, so that we can contact you if we have questions about your request.

Specify you are making an FOIA request.

Provide as much detail as possible about the records you seek. Indicate whether you are requesting the information in a form or format other than paper.

State your willingness to pay any fees, and how much you are willing to pay as advance authorization. (BTW, fees are for photocopies, etc., however, as an individual, you can ask to have fees waived. No fee is charged for non-commercial requests that are relatively simple â€” requiring less than two hours' search time and fewer than 100 copied pages.)

The Committee on Government Reform's "Citizen's Guide on Using the Freedom of Information Act includes this sample letter:

Agency Head [or Freedom of Information Act Officer]
Name of Agency
Address of Agency
City, State, Zip Code
Re: Freedom of Information Act Request

Dear ------ : This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I request that a copy of the following documents [or documents containing the following information] be provided to me: [identify the documents or information as specifically as possible].

In order to help to determine my status for purposes of determining the applicability of any fees, you should know that I am [insert a suitable description of the requester an individual with no commercial interest and the purpose of the request. Sample requester descriptions: a representative of the news media affiliated with the ------ newspaper (magazine, television station, etc.), and this request is made as part of news gathering and not for a commercial use. affiliated with an educational or noncommercial scientific institution, and this request is made for a scholarly or scientific purpose and not for a commercial use. an individual seeking information for personal use and not for a commercial use. affiliated with a private corporation and am seeking information for use in the company's business.]

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[Optional] I also include a telephone number at which I can be contacted during the hours of -----, if necessary, to discuss any aspect of my request. Thank you for your consideration of this request.

Sincerely,
Name
Address
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The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has a user-friendly letter generator on its Web site. It prompts you for all relevant information about your request and drafts the letter for you, then allows you to edit it before saving or printing. You must e-mail or mail it yourself. Other guides to assist you:

"A Citizen's Guide on Using the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act of 1974 to Request Government Records." Detailed, user-friendly guide prepared by the Committee on Government Reform and published by the Government Printing Office (Report 108-172).

"How to Use the Federal FOI Act." Excellent guide prepared by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Geared specifically toward journalists.

Below are some details of the recently filed Los Angeles Lawsuit: SUMMARY OF THE LAWSUIT FILED IN LA COUNTY: Among the allegations in the 29-page complaint filed today in Superior Court, the County Department of Animal Care and Control routinely:

Kills healthy and treatable animals before their state mandated holding period expires;

Misclassifies animals as "ill" or "injured" in order to kill them before their holding period expires even though the animals are not irremediably suffering as required by state law;

Kills lost animals without making reasonable attempts to find the animals' owners;

Fails to provide adequate veterinary care to impounded animals, resulting in animal deaths;

Fails to provide adequate nutrition, water, shelter and exercise to impounded animals and to treat the animals humanely and kindly;

Refuses to release animals to rescue groups that are willing to care for the animals until adoptive homes can be found and, instead, kills the animals.

In addition, the lawsuit states that the County Department of Animal Care and Control unlawfully retaliates against animal rescuers and volunteers who publicize its unlawful treatment of animals.

Thank you, Karen O'Toole 602-549-1115 karenotoole.org karensrescuelist@yahoogroups.com

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This was posted in the "Best of Craiglist."

"I am posting this (and it is long) because I think our society needs a huge 'Wake-up' call. As a shelter manager, I am going to share a little insight with you all...a view from the inside if you will. First off, this is a forum to for adoption and/or rehoming as clearly stated in the rules. All of you breeders/sellers on craigslist should not only be flagged (and I hope the good people on craigslist will continue to do so with blind fury), but you should be made to work in the 'back' of an animal shelter for just one day. Maybe if you saw the life drain from a few sad, lost, confused eyes, you would change your mind about breeding and selling to people you don't even know, that puppy you just sold will most likely end up in my shelter when it's not a cute little puppy anymore.

So how would you feel if you knew that there's about a 90% chance that dog will never walk out of the shelter it is going to be dumped at? Purebred or not! About 50% of all of the dogs that are 'owner surrenders' or 'strays', that come into my shelter are purebred dogs. The most common excuses I hear are; 'We are moving and we can't take our dog (or cat).' Really? Where are you moving to that doesn't allow pets? Or they say 'The dog got bigger than we thought it would'. How big did you think a German Shepherd would get? 'We don't have time for her'. Really? I work a 10-12 hour day and still have time for my 6 dogs! 'She's tearing up our yard'. How about making her a part of your family? They always tell me, 'We just don't want to have to stress about finding a place for her, we know she'll get adopted, she's a good dog'. Odds are your pet won't get adopted & how stressful do you think being in a shelter is? Well, let me tell you, your pet has 72 hours to find a new family from the moment you drop it off, sometimes a little longer if the shelter isn't full and your dog manages to stay completely healthy; if it sniffles, it dies.

Your pet will be confined to a small run/kennel in a room with about 25 other barking or crying animals. It will have to relieve itself where it eats and sleeps. It will be depressed and it will cry constantly for the family that abandoned it. If your pet is lucky, I will have enough volunteers in that day to take him/her for a walk. If I don't, your pet won't get any attention besides having a bowl of food slid under the kennel door and the waste sprayed out of its pen with a high-powered hose. If your dog is big, black or any of the 'Bully' breeds (pit bull, rottie, mastiff, etc) it was pretty much dead when you walked it through the front door. Those dogs just don't get adopted. If your dog doesn't get adopted within its 72 hours and the shelter is full, it will be destroyed. If the shelter isn't full and your dog is good enough, and of a desirable enough breed, it may get a stay of execution, not for long though. Most get very kennel protective after about a week and are destroyed for showing aggression, even the sweetest dogs will turn in this environment. If your pet makes it over all of those hurdles, chances are it will get kennel cough or an upper respiratory infection and will be destroyed because shelters just don't have the funds to pay for even a $100 treatment.

Here's a little euthanasia 101 for those of you that have never witnessed a perfectly healthy, scared animal being 'put-down'. First, your pet will be taken from its kennel on a leash, they always look like they think they are going for a walk, happy, wagging their tails. Until they get to 'The Room', every one of them freaks out and puts on the breaks when we get to the door; it must smell like death or they can feel the sad souls that are left in there, it's strange, but it happens with every one of them. Your dog or cat will be restrained, held down by 1 or 2 vet techs depending on the size and how freaked out they are. Then a euthanasia tech or a vet will start the process, they will find a vein in the front leg and inject a lethal dose of the 'pink stuff'. Hopefully your pet doesn't panic from being restrained and jerk. I've seen the needles tear out of a leg and been covered with the resulting blood and deafened by the yelps and screams. They all don't just 'go to sleep', sometimes spasm for a while, gasp for air and defecate on themselves.

When it all ends, your pet's corpse will be stacked like firewood in a large freezer in the back with all of the other animals that were killed, waiting to be picked up like garbage. What happens next? Cremated? Taken to the dump? Rendered into pet food? You'll never know and it probably won't even cross your mind, it was just an animal and you can always buy another one right?

I hope that those of you that have read this are bawling your eyes out and can't get the pictures out of your head. I do every day on the way home from work. I hate my job, I hate that it exists & I hate that it will always be there unless you people make some changes and realize that the lives you are affecting go much farther than the pets you dump at a shelter. Between 9 and 11 MILLION animals die every year in shelters and only you can stop it. I do my best to save every life I can but rescues are always full, and there are more animals coming in everyday than there are homes.

My point to all of this: DON'T BREED OR BUY WHILE SHELTER PETS DIE!

Hate me or flag me if you want to, the truth hurts and reality is what it is. I just hope I maybe changed one persons mind about breeding their dog, taking their loving pet to a shelter, or buying a dog. I hope that someone will walk into my shelter and say 'I saw this thing on craigslist and it made me want adopt,' that would make it all worth it."

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The Witness
By Jerry Elmore Layne (of Animals Have Hearts, Too!)

A personal transformation took over my life in 1988, when I was a witness, through a small porthole window, of an animal shelter gas chamber doing its savage business. Two of the employees began pulling and tugging larger dogs toward the chamber -- this, in itself, was savage. The eyes of the dogs were full of fear as they were shoved into a large cylinder with another six dogs, all types. Next, five puppies were placed in the chamber.

Noise. Yelling. Fighting. All scared, they shivered again and again, their eyes huge, their nostrils flaring. They were completely bewildered. One dog in the chamber, a male chow mix about one year old, started snapping at the puppies. All the dogs and puppies were in a desperate struggle, and the gassing had yet to begin.

Then a button was pushed, and the two employees walked away as the chamber machine began pumping out streams of carbon monoxide. The little puppies started to paw at the glass window. After one full minute they started to whine and then produced a piercing squeal. Then the larger dogs started a high, mournful wailing, then a deeper howl that rose in great desperation for 45 seconds.

That morning of my witness, the time from inception of hell for the dogs and puppies, to the completion of their cries of desperation, was between two and six minutes.

As the employees walked away, I knew it was my love, my honor, my devotion to animals that I must not blink and watch every second, every animal struggle to avoid death. However, tears from my heart did overwhelm me that tragic morning, and the final insult was having to load the bodies of the dogs and puppies into a pickup truck and haul them to a local garbage dump.

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Here is a 2006 article about a shelter that uses gas chambers.

From WWAY News Channel 3 http://wwaytv3.com/Global/story.asp?S=4823002 (Video of the AC officer)

Columbus County, North Carolina, using gas chamber to euthanize animals

April 27, 2006 01:15 AM EDT COLUMBUS COUNTY NC -- Columbus County is one of the few places that still uses a gas chamber to euthanize animals. They sometimes put down more than a dozen animals at a time.

A former Columbus County Animal Control officer is stepping forward to speak out about a practice he calls outdated and inhumane.

"You're putting a lot of animals in together, and when you put a lot of animals into a confined area, and you close the door on them and you start giving something where they can't breathe, they're going to be fighting each other," Ralph Gann said. "They're going to be screaming, they're going to be hollering."

Mr. Gann is a retired Animal Control officer from Maryland who worked for a short time earlier this year at the animal shelter in Columbus County. He's was appalled to see Columbus County using a gas chamber to put animals down and says he complained to his supervisors. Mr. Gann said, "If you can stand the screaming and hollering of the animals when they're fighting each other, trying to get out, then you got a bigger and a tougher heart than I have."

Columbus County Animal Control put down more than 3,000 dogs and cats last year. They adopted out about 600. The county manager explains the gas chamber is more cost efficient than euthanizing animals with individual injections. Considering that the County's animal control budget for all of last year was only about $150,000, County Manager Jim Varner says there wasn't a lot of extra money to go around.

Mr. Varner said, "The animals are taken care of. We have a new animal control facility for them. We've had suggestions on how to handle things better and we take citizen input. But we can't make everybody happy, particularly when they think animals are more important than humans."

Members of the county's Humane Society have volunteered to work for free at the shelter on weekends so the public has more opportunity to adopt these animals before they're put down.

Some of the gas chambers in North Carolina:

Join the fight to ban gas chambers permanently! Please visit www.umsg.planetearthdog.com.

Each week, volunteers transport dogs and cats from rural Virginia shelters to rescue groups up north and eventually to good homes. These are animals that were scheduled to be killed, by either lethal injection or gas, within days. There is a DESPERATE need for help with transporting these dogs and cats to safety! Visit http://ruralshelterhelp.blogspot.com to see the animals who need help right now. If you are interested in volunteering, e-mail Erin at Tierbee@cox.net.

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THE CAT WHO LOVED KITTENS

She was a stray, long-haired blue cream tortoiseshell. She was a very pretty cat.

She loved kittens; she didn’t have any with her when she came in, but when she was allowed out of her cage for exercise, she would run up to the cages with kittens in them and try to lick them through the cage bars. If any kitten began to cry in our cat room, she would become all alarmed and I would have to go over and assure her that the kitten was all right.

When the shelter was closed, I’d let her out of her cage and she’d stretch out on my desk. She’d try to play with my pen while I tried to do my paperwork. Sometimes I’d get annoyed and put her down on my lap, but like all cats she had a mind of her own and would jump back up on my desk and continue poking at my pen.

As the weeks went by, she became the cat who had been at our shelter the longest so I had her photographed and made her “Pet of the Week” in our local newspaper. Unfortunately not one person called. No one cared that she was beautiful. Or that she got along well with dogs and other cats. Or that she was young and healthy and had silky fur.

So one day when the other unwanted cats filled our cat room beyond capacity, I lovingly took her life.

Donna Brigley-Savluk August, 1992

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Below are government-run shelters in the state of Virginia from which you can adopt animals. There are also many, many private rescue groups with animals of a wide variety of species for adoption.

VIRGINIA ANIMAL CONTROL FACILITIES

Amelia County Animal Shelter
P.O. Box A Amelia, VA 23002 804-561-3878

Accomack County Animal Control P.O. Box 149 Accomac, VA 23301 757-787-1131

Alleghany County Animal Control 265 W Main St Covington, VA 22426 540-965-1770

Amherst County Animal Control P.O. Box 390 Amherst, VA 24521 434-946-9400

Appomattox County Animal Control P.O. Box 863 Appomattox, VA 24522 804-352-7922

Augusta County Animal Control P.O. Box 590 Verona, VA 24482 540-245-5635

Bath County Animal Shelter P.O. Box 309 Warm Springs, VA 24484 540-839-7210

Bedford County Animal Control
215 E Main St Bedford, VA 24523 540-586-7112

Bedford Humane Society
122 E Main St Bedford, VA 24523 540-586-7636

Big Stone Gap Animal Control c/o Police Dept Big Stone Gap, VA 24219 540-523-0119

Bland County Animal Control P.O. Box 510 Bland, VA 24315 276-688-4622

Botefourt County Animal Control P.O. Box 18 Fincastle, VA 24175 540-473-8030

Bristol Humane Society
415 Cumberland St Bristol, VA 24201 276-645-7400

Brunswick County Animal Shelter 595 Planters Rd Lawrenceville, VA 23868 434-848-0912

Buckingham County Animal Shelter P.O. Box 252 Buckingham, VA 23921 804-969-4242

Buchanan County Animal Control P.O. Drawer 950 Grundy, VA 24614 276-935-6580

Buena Vista Police Dept Animal Control Operations Buena Vista, VA 24415 540-261-6174

Campbell County Animal Shelter 322 Dennis Riddle Ln Rustburg, VA 24588 804-821-4416

Caroline County Animal Shelter 14080 Devils Three Jump Rd Milford, VA 22514 804-633-9041

Charles City County Animal Control P.O. Box 128 Charles City, VA 23030 888-788-5146

Charlotte County Animal Control P.O. Box 608 Charlotte Cthse, VA 23923 804-542-5117

Chesapeake Animal Bureau/Shelter
3807 Cook Blvd Chesapeake, VA 23323 757-382-8083

Chesterfield County Animal Control 9300 Public Works Rd Chesterfield, VA 23832 804-748-1684

Clarke County Animal Shelter 102 N Church St Berryville, VA 22611 540-955-5104

Clifton Forge Animal Control 547 Main St Clifton Forge, VA 24422 540-863-2513

Colonial Heights Animal Control/Shelter
100-A Highland Ave Colonial Heights, VA 23834 804-520-9397

Covington City Animal Control 333 W Locust St Covington, VA 24426 540-965-6333

Craig County Animal Control P.O. Box 308 New Castle, VA 24127 540-864-5010

Culpeper County Dept. of Animal Services 10144 James Monroe Hwy Culpeper, VA 22701 540-829-2063

Cumberland County Animal Pound 101 Poorhouse Rd Cumberland, VA 23040 804-492-4740

Danville City Animal Control P.O. Box 3300 Danville, VA 24543 434-799-6517

Dickenson County Animal Shelter P.O. Box 1098 Clintwood, VA 24228 540-835-1320

Dinwiddie Animal Shelter P.O. Drawer 70 Dinwiddie, VA 23841 804-469-3759

Emporia Animal Control 310 Budd St Emporia, VA 23847 804-634-2121

Essex-Tappahanock Animal Control P.O. Box 266 Tappahannock, VA 22560 804-443-3346

Fairfax County Animal Control/Shelter
4500 W Ox Rd Fairfax, VA 22030
Animal Control: 703-385-7924
Shelter: 703-830-1100

Falls Church Animal Control c/o Police Dept Falls Church, VA 22046 703-248-5172

Fauquier County Animal Control 78 W Lee St Warrenton, VA 22186 540-347-6862

Floyd County Humane Society
Box 218 Floyd, VA 24091 540-745-9365

Fluvanna County Animal Control P.O. Box 113 Palmyra, VA 22963 434-589-8211

Franklin County Animal Control 70 E Court St, Suite 305 Rocky Mount, VA 24151 540-483-7440

Frederick County Animal Control Esther L. Boyd Animal Shelter Winchester, VA 22602 540-667-9192

Fredericksburg Animal Control P.O. Box 828 Fredericksburg, VA 22408 540-373-3122

Galax-Carroll-Grayson Animal Shelter 111 E Grayson St Galax, VA 24333 276-236-8501

Giles County Animal Rescue
315 N Main St Pearlsburg, VA 24134 540-921-2525

Gloucester County Animal Control P.O. Box 329 Gloucester, VA 23061 804-693-5290

Goochland County Animal Control P.O. Box 10 Goochland, VA 23063 804-556-5302;FAX: 556-4617

Greene County Animal Shelter P.O. Box 358 Stanardsville, VA 22973 434-985-5210

Greensville County Animal Shelter 1750 E Atlantic St Emporia, VA 23847 434-348-4205

Halifax County Animal Control P.O. Box 699 Halifax, VA 24558 434-572-4292

Hanover County Animal Control P.O. Box 470 Hanover, VA 23069 804-365-6485

Harrisonburg Animal Control c/o Police Dept Harrisonburg, VA 22801 540-434-2317

Henrico County Animal Protection Unit
P.O. Box 27032 Richmond, VA 23273 804-652-3360

Henry County Animal Control 3250 King Mountain Rd Martinsville, VA 24112 540-656-4266

Highland Animal Shelter P.O. Box 80 Monterey, VA 24465 540-468-3377

Hopewell City Animal Control c/o Police Dept Hopewell, VA 23860 804-541-2275

Isle of Wight Animal Shelter P.O. Box 80 Isle of Wight, VA 23397 757-365-6318

King & Queen County Animal Control P.O. Box 177 King & Queen, VA 23085 804-785-5975

King George Animal Shelter 11220 Henry Griffin Rd King George, VA 22485 540-775-2120

King William Animal Control P.O. Box 215 King William, VA 23086 804-769-4963

Lancaster Animal Shelter 1138 Mary Ball Rd Lancaster, VA 22503 804-462-7175

Lee County Animal Shelter P.O. Box 367 Jonesville, VA 24263 276-346-7714

Lexington Animal Control c/o Police Dept Lexington, VA 22450 540-462-3759

Loudoun County Animal Care & Control 39820 Charles Town Pike Waterford, VA 20197 540-882-3211

Louisa County Animal Shelter
P.O. Box 160 Louisa, VA 23093 540-894-4219

Lunenburg County Pound Courthouse Square Lunenburg, VA 23952 434-696-4452

Manassas Animal Adoption Center, 10039 Dean Drive, Manassas, VA 20110
703-257-2420 (Animal Control: 703-257-8009)

Manassas Park Animal Control 329 Manassas Dr Manassas Park, VA 20111 703-361-1136 (shelter is Prince William Animal Shelter at 14807 Dumfries Rd.)

Marion Animal Control c/o Police Dept Marion, VA 24354 276-783-8145

Martinsville City Animal Control 55 W Church St Martinsville, VA 24112 276-656-5300

Mathews Co Bureau of Animal Control P.O. Box 839 Matthews, VA 23109 8040725-7172

Mecklenburg County Animal Control P.O. Box 307 Boydton, VA 23917 804-738-6191

Middlesex County Dog Pound P.O. Box 149 Saluda, VA 23149 804-758-4330

Montgomery County Animal Shelter
1402 County Dr Christiansburg, VA 24073 540-382-5795

Nelson County SPCA/Animal Control P.O. Box 336 Lovingston, VA 22949 (434) 263-7722(434) 263-4800

New Kent Animal Protection Unit P.O. Box 186 New Kent, VA 23124 804-966-9500

Norfolk City Animal Management Center 5585 Sabre Rd Norfolk, VA 23502 757-664-7387

Northhampton County Animal Control P.O. Box 66 Eastville, VA 23347 757-678-0440

Northumberland County Animal Control P.O. Box 310 Heathsville, VA 22473 804-580-5221

Norton City Animal Control P.O. Box 618 Norton, VA 24273 276-679-1211

Nottoway County Animal Control P.O. Box 92 Nottoway, VA 23955 434-645-8696

Orange County Animal Shelter 19271 Constitution Hwy Orange, VA 23960 540-672-1124

Page County Animal Control 791 Eldon Yates Dr Stanley, VA 22851 540-778-2101

Patrick County Animal Control 16 Dr. Kay Ln Stuart, VA 24171 540-694-3663

Petersburg City Animal Control 37 E Tabb St Petersburg, VA 23803 804-732-3654

Pittsylvania County Animal Control 382 Rainbow Ln Dry Fork, VA 24549 434-423-7931

Portsmouth Animal Control c/o Police Dept Portsmouth, VA 23704 757-393-8430

Powhatan Animal Control 4190 Old Plantation Rd Powhatan, VA 23139 804-598-5672

Prince Edward County Animal Control P.O. Box 382 Farmville, VA 23901 434-372-8837

Prince George County Animal Control 3100 Union Branch Rd Petersburg, VA 23805 804-733-2796

Prince William County Animal Shelter 14807 Dumfries Rd Manassas, VA 20112 703-792-6464

Pulaski County Animal Control
5576 Utility Ln Dublin, VA 24084 540-674-8359

Radford Animal Control
c/o Police Dept Radford, VA 24141 540-731-3688

Rappahannock County Animal Control P.O. Box 519 Washington, VA 22747 540-675-5330

Richmond Division of Animal Control
3540 N Hopkins Rd Richmond, VA 23224 804-780-5397

Richmond County Animal Control 1573 Sharps Rd Warsaw, VA 22572 804-333-3415

Roanoke City Animal Control 1313 Eastern Ave, NE Roanoke, VA 24012 540-853-2891

Roanoke County Animal Control c/o Police Dept Roanoke, VA 24019 540-561-8040

Rockbridge County Animal Control 150 S Main St Lexington, VA 24450 540-463-7328

Russell County Animal Shelter P.O. Box 1208 Lebanon, VA 24266 276-889-8000

Salem City Animal Control Shelter 1301 Indiana St Salem, VA 24153 540-375-3038

Scott County Pound 112 Water St Gale City, VA 24251 276-386-6521

Shenandoah Co Animal Control Shelter 268 Landfill Rd Edinburg, VA 22824 540-984-8955

Smyth County Animal Shelter Marion, VA 24354 276-646-2222

South Boston City Animal Control c/o Police Dept South Boston, VA 24592 804-575-4271

Southampton County Pound Hwy 35 Courtland, VA 23837 757-653-2100

Spotsylvania County Animal Services
450 T.V. Dr Fredericksburg, VA 22408 540-891-1329

Stafford County Animal Control
473 Eskimo Hill Rd Stafford, VA 22554 540-658-7387

Staunton City Animal Control c/o Staunton Police Dept Staunton, VA 24401 540-332-3842

Suffolk City Animal Control 124 Forest Glen Dr Suffolk, VA 23434 757-923-2160

Surry County Animal Control 265 Old Burrough Rd Surry, VA 23883 757-294-5271

Sussex County Animal Control P.O. Box 1387 Sussex, VA 23884 434-246-5511

Tazewell County Animal Shelter
P.O. Box 394 Tazewell, VA 24651 540-988-5795

Vienna Animal Control
4500 West Ox Rd Fairfax, VA 22030 703-830-1100

Vinton Animal Control 311 S Pollard St Vinton, VA 24179 540-983-0617

Virginia Beach Bureau of Animal Control 2665 Leroy Dr Virginia Beach, VA 23456 757-427-4158

Washington County Animal Control CC Porter Animal Shelter Abingdon, VA 24210 540-676-6210

Waynesboro City Animal Control Waynesboro Police Dept Waynesboro, VA 22980 540-942-6675

Westmoreland County Shelter
P.O. Box 1000 Montross, VA 22520 804-493-0869

Williamsburg City Animal Control P.O. Box 8784 Williamsburg, VA 23187 757-253-1800

Winchester Animal Control c/o Police Dept Winchester, VA 22601 540-662-4131

Wise County Animal Control P.O. Box 570 Wise, VA 24293 276-679-6750

Wythe County Animal Shelter 345 S Fourth St Wytheville, VA 24382 276-228-6003

Wytheville Animal Control 2nd and Spring Sts Wytheville, VA 24382 540-223-3300