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Unicoi County Animal Shelter


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The Unicoi County Animal Shelter operates to provide a safe haven for the animals of Unicoi County. We operate as an animal control and adoption center. All of our pets are loved and given the best care possible. We depend on the support of volunteers, adopters, and rescues to keep saving lives. We are a small shelter, have a very small staff, and put our hearts and souls into our animals. Come visit with us!


185 N Industrial Dr
Erwin, Tn 37650

Phone: 423-743-3071

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Feral Cat TNR Program
2
High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter
2
Rescue Groups
1
Foster Care
2
Comprehensive Adoption Programs
1
Pet Retention
1
Medical and Behavior Programs
1
Public Relations/Community Involvement
1
Volunteers
1
Proactive Redemptions
1
A Compassionate Director
1
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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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I am disgusted to find a website like this. Just because a shelter is open admission (meaning they don’t turn anyone away), that does NOT mean they are “Pro Kill”! This is the first time I’ve heard of this horrible, slanderous term and anyone with a brain and a heart would be disgusted, too! Shame on you for aiding in the deaths of shelter animals because of your ignorant terminology. If a person sees a shelter as “bad” then they will not support it. And it’s the support from the community that shelters so desperately need in order to fulfill their purpose in SAVING lives! No shelter worker WANTS to kill animals. The REAL murderers are 1) people who are irresponsible pet owners that don’t get their pets fixed, 2) people who buy animals instead of adopting, 3) people who breed animals on purpose to sell them, and 4) people like those in charge of this website who slander the very ones they should be supporting the most. The terms “kill, no kill, and pro kill” are very misleading and contribute to the deaths of animals. Think for just a second. Most county and city shelters are a provision of the local governments for people to turn in animals they catch or they can no longer keep. These shelters are paid for by the TAXES of the community residents. They are obligated to take every cat and dog (and sometimes other animals) that is brought to them, no matter how filled the shelter is. Now tell me, if that was YOUR situation, what would you do with all of those animals if people just kept bringing them in but no one wanted to support you with their donations, volunteering, fostering and adopting? Can you magically house hundreds and hundreds of animals in a relatively small building? No? Then WHAT are you going to do with ALL of those animals?! EXACTLY! You would have NO choice but to humanely euthanize many of those animals. But if you take that SAME shelter and have tons of support coming in from the community with people donating, volunteering, fostering and adopting, then that shelter would not be FORCED TO DO THE DIRTY WORK OF THE VERY SAME COMMUNITY THAT CONDEMNS THEM!!!! The creators of this website are SICK, IGNORANT, ARROGANT PRICKS and this website should be taken down. SHAME SHAME SHAME on you. We ALL need to be responsible and spay/neuter our animals and SHOWER our local shelters with love and support. And you need to STOP using the “kill” terms. There are TWO types of shelters: Open Admission and Limited Admission. Open Admission means they have to take in every animal no matter how packed they are, and Limited Admission means they can turn people away if they are at capacity or if they just don’t want that specific animal. Educate yourselves and stop spreading this evil, sickening lie.
posted by No Name, on 2020-02-01 00:12:44
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Your perspectives are valuable for people to hear - and truly represent the "status quo" way of thinking. What you are missing, and the reason that so many organizations and even entire states have become "no kill", is that the status quo is no longer accepted because models like the no-kill equation (https://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/no-kill-equation.html) have been proven over and over again to be effective at eliminating killing in any community, regardless of funding, as soon as the decision is made to stop the killing. Set aside any preconceptions and biases you have and read the model objectively. If you are a reader, also read more about the history of the animal shelter industry in the book "redemption" by Nathan Winograd. Websites like this one exist in order to save animals by promoting education and progressive thinking on difficult, emotional topics like this one. To not use the words "kill" and "no kill" is to lessen the emotional impact that they carry with them, and therefore minimize the realization of the outcome that each word implies - one results in the death of an animal that did not need to die, the other results in allowing an animal to live and helping to improve their lives as they live. So I applaud websites like this for the approach that they take in the wording and the help that they provide to the cause of saving lives through advocacy efforts.
posted by nonamereply, on 2020-02-01 16:23:09
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