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Foothills Humane Society (Columbus)


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FHS is a wonderful and caring place for animals. Employees and volunteers work very hard to find homes for the animals. Animals are treated very well here, and receive lots of love. This is a model shelter for the no kill shelter concept. They work closely with rescue groups and various partners in the community at large, to find animals forever homes. They also have programs that help animals to become more adoptable,as well as spay and neuter program for cats, training classes for dogs in the shelter, and dog training classes for the community. There is also a program to provide food for those cat owners that cannot afford food, so that the cats will not have to be placed in the care of the shelter (allowing the cats to stay with their families). In addition, FHS has a program that provides spay and neuter services and food for those who feed feral cats in the community. This program is called the "Po-Kitty Program" (named so after our county, POLK COUNTY). I volunteer as often as I can to walk the dogs at the shelter. As is the case with the other volunteers and staff at the shelter, I am elated when an animal finds a loving home.

I am pleased to be affiliated with FHS. There are other programs that I have not mentioned, such as the "On The Road" program, where animals are token to events via a mobile adoption trailer for adoption, recognition programs for volunteers, vaccination clinics, microchip clinics, and nail trimming animals in the community. There is a lot of community involvement here-Lots of talent used to help the animals in need. FHS has quite a cadre of dedicated people. Sincerely, Michael Thomas


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989 Little Mountain Road
Columbus, NC 28722

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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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Hi, due to a recent death in the family, I am trying to re-home 2 Golden retriever/Chow mix brother and sister. They are very sweet, fixed, up to date on shots and microchipped. They need lots of love!
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My brother recently died, leaving behind 18 rescued cats. We are able to keep four but desperately need homes for the other fourteen, all of which have been spayed or neutered. We are especially concerned about finding homes for the five cats that have FIV. They are small, sweet and well-behaved and are our favorites. Please help! You can contact me at [email protected] Thank you!
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