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SCAR, Southern Cross Animal Rescue (Laurel)


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Welcome to Southern Cross Animal Rescue! Southern Cross (SCAR), like the constellation we are named after, was created to help guide the lost home. We are a non-profit, no-kill shelter that focuses on more than just shelter. We believe animals deserve affection, attention, and socialization to be happy and healthy. We also believe this will make them better pets with a greater chance of finding a forever home. We are dedicated to education and outreach in an effort to change the overpopulation epidemic in our area as well as elevate the level of care animals receive. We hope to be part of the change needed so badly in the south.


Mailing Address:
PO Box 2007
Laurel MS 39442

Call Us: 601-433-5807

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Feral Cat TNR Program
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High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter
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Rescue Groups
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Foster Care
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Comprehensive Adoption Programs
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Pet Retention
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Medical and Behavior Programs
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Public Relations/Community Involvement
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Volunteers
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Proactive Redemptions
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A Compassionate Director
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1. Feral Cat TNR Program

Many communities are embracing Trap, Neuter, Release programs (TNR) to improve animal welfare, reduce death rates, and meet obligations to public welfare.


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2. High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter

Low cost, high volume spay/neuter will quickly lead to fewer animals entering the shelter system, allowing more resources to be allocated toward saving lives.


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3. Rescue Groups

An adoption or transfer to a rescue group frees up scarce cage and kennel space, reduces expenses for feeding, cleaning, killing, and improves a community's rate of lifesaving. In an environment of millions of dogs and cats killed in shelters annually, rare is the circumstance in which a rescue group should be denied an animal.


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4. Foster Care

Volunteer foster care is crucial to No Kill. Without it, saving lives is compromised. It is a low cost, and often no cost, way of increasing a shelter's capacity, improving public relations, increasing a shelter's public image, rehabilitating sick and injured or behaviorally challenged animals, and saving lives.


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5. Comprehensive Adoption Programs

Adoptions are vital to an agency's lifesaving mission. The quantity and quality of shelter adoptions is in shelter management's hands, making lifesaving a direct function of shelter policies and practice. In fact, studies show people get their animals from shelters only 20% of the time. If shelters better promoted their animals and had adoption programs responsive to the needs of the community, including public access hours for working people, offsite adoptions, adoption incentives, and effective marketing, they could increase the number of homes available and replace killing with adoptions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, shelters can adopt their way out of killing.


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6. Pet Retention

While some of the reasons animals are surrendered to shelters are unavoidable, others can be prevented-but only if shelters are willing to work with people to help them solve their problems. Saving animals requires communities to develop innovative strategies for keeping people and their companion animals together. And the more a community sees its shelters as a place to turn for advice and assistance, the easier this job will be.


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7. Medical and Behavior Programs

In order to meet its commitment to a lifesaving guarantee for all savable animals, shelters need to keep animals happy and healthy and keep animals moving through the system. To do this, shelters must put in place comprehensive vaccination, handling, cleaning, socialization, and care policies before animals get sick and rehabilitative efforts for those who come in sick, injured, unweaned, or traumatized.


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8. Public Relations/Community Involvement

Increasing adoptions, maximizing donations, recruiting volunteers and partnering with community agencies comes down to one thing: increasing the shelter's exposure. And that means consistent marketing and public relations. Public relations and marketing are the foundation of all a shelter's activities and their success. To do all these things well, the shelter must be in the public eye.


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9. Volunteers

Volunteers are a dedicated "army of compassion" and the backbone of a successful No Kill effort. There is never enough staff, never enough dollars to hire more staff, and always more needs than paid human resources. That is where volunteers come in and make the difference between success and failure and, for the animals, life and death.


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10. Proactive Redemptions

One of the most overlooked areas for reducing killing in animal control shelters are lost animal reclaims. Sadly, besides having pet owners fill out a lost pet report, very little effort is made in this area of shelter operations. This is unfortunate because doing so-primarily shifting from passive to a more proactive approach-has proven to have a significant impact on lifesaving and allow shelters to return a large percentage of lost animals to their families.


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11. A Compassionate Director

The final element of the No Kill equation is the most important of all, without which all other elements are thwarted-a hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired cliches or hide behind the myth of "too many animals, not enough homes." Unfortunately, this one is also oftentimes the hardest one to demand and find.


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SCAR only helps if it gets them on the news or in the paper. Nothing but a bunch of glory seeking women.
posted by kelley965, on 2019-11-04 15:57:08
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Based on what? Your opinion? Lol
posted by Anna Kelly, on 2020-04-20 03:24:44
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Minnesota---Land of 10,000. Lakes --- signing on and reviewing. Yesterday I adopted dog(Lindzey) tag # 0060. She is a shy hound with bite marks on her face and obvious body signs that she has recently had birth. It was touch and go for awhile whether or not I'd be able to adopt her. Then yesterday it all came together. The most amazing part----a women in the twin cities area, due to her work situation couldn't take her----but she made a donation to Lindzey's acct that was over her adoption fee. So I was left with a credit to buy her some toys that she was familiar with at the shelter. Lindzey now lives in Norther Minnesota with me and some other critters on 80 acres. I look forward to instilling confidence and loving this girl to help her realize her full puppy dog potential. Thank You for rescuing her and I'm guessing you also gave her puppies an equal chance at a loving "forever" home. My heart is with you. Pat
posted by PatriciaBecker, on 2017-06-06 07:18:21
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When we came to SCAR we were heart broke because someone had poisoned our rescue dog we had for 8 years. The ladies who helped us were wonderful. My husband and son went up there with our other dog which is a male and very chilled to see if they could find another dog that would get along well with him, after two dogs they got to see a shy and abused dog (came to SCAR from a hoarder situation) she was a perfect match and we love her. The ladies had given her the name POLLY and we stuck with that.If you ever want to help give love to animals go to SCAR. POLLY is our forever family member.
posted by (empty name), on 2016-09-08 14:00:38
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