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Humane Society Of Catawba County


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Adoptable Pets in North Carolina
PO Box 63
Hickory, NC 28603

The Humane Society Of Catawba County has a Mission:

To make our community a better place by serving as an advocate for companion animals. Our vision for the future is that no adoptable animal will be euthanized in Catawba County, and that animal cruelty and inhumane treatment of animals will cease to exist.

Do you need to find a loving home for your pet?

No-kill shelters do wonderful work, but as a result, are often inundated with pet surrenders. In the unfortunate scenario that you have to find a new home for your pet, please read through the rehoming solution and articles on this page before contacting the shelter.

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* based on the NoKill Equation by Nathan Winograd and the No Kill Advocacy Center.
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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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Catawba county killed my dog because they said he tried to bite an employee.. no one ever notify me or told me. He was like my son I had the Chihuahua for 4 years and he was like my son, best friend,brother and that was wrong... No pictures, no calls, nothing.. the day we was suppose to pick him up they told us.. I cried for days and still do.. it was wrong and what can I do.. iam hurt but pissed at the same time. Please let me know my number is 828-228-8389
posted by billycjohnson1971, on 2018-04-08 09:01:19
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I have a rescued plot hound that I need to rehome. About 7 years has shots heart worm neg needs lots of running room. Beautiful dog. Housetrained
posted by (empty name), on 2017-09-03 20:34:05
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Have s older Boxer Husky mix neutered female named Jordan Michael, does all the tricks but doesn't like little snippy aggressive dogs, she put up with some for years but know she's older n not tolerant, should be fine with larger dog I'm old n can't put her down must have a good home w some room outside also, she will be your protector, no health issues just needs a loving home, my son n I will check out you n your home love her lost my mom n now don't have a place for my big beautiful dog email me [email protected] gmail.com
posted by JulieLong, on 2017-08-31 01:08:44
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I have a 4 year old male germen shepherd. He is fully house trained and crate trained. He knows sit, down, stay and release. I have raised him from a puppy. I have battled breast cancer for the past 7 years and it is becoming to hard to keep up his training. He needs someone who has more training to train him. He is registered as a service dog. But he needs more public training and someone with a firm hand yet very patient. I will not just let someone come get him. You WILL have to meet him multiple times and allow me to visit your home with and without him. I love him dearly and he WILL be placed in a great home. He has been raised with kids and other animals. He has never bitten anyone. He has been around other animals but does better with other large dogs. I would not advice small animals. He does have a food aggression. Not towards people but towards other dogs, only when food is involved. please contact me at 828-352-3885
posted by MelanieJones, on 2016-09-23 11:14:34
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My brother recently died, leaving behind 18 rescued cats. We still need to find homes for five of his cats that have FIV. All have been spayed or neutered. They are small, sweet and well-behaved and are our favorites. Please help! You can contact me at [email protected] Thank you!
posted by SusanParrott, on 2015-04-25 17:57:43
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Please help me, I been taking care of my daughter's Blue Pit while she been in rehab. I can no longer care for her Pit and my two Yorkies at the same time. Good dog, house broken, love's people. Contact me at 336-687-9568.
posted by GailLandaal, on 2015-02-15 19:32:07

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