OUR HISTORY:

The group was founded in 1999 to change the practices at the county shelter, which had a 100% kill rate and no public hours. Our group successfully advocated to provide regular open visitation hours to improve the chances for adoption. We walked the dogs, socialized the cats, made sure water bowls were full, took in surrendered animals and adopted out others, networked with other rescues to place animals whose time was up. We also tried, with varying success, to provide bedding to keep the animals off the concrete floor. We purchased chip readers for the animal control officers and instituted a pre-pay spay-neuter program to avoid a large deposit requirement. The euthanasia rate was drastically reduced over the years. When the state vet did a surprise inspection in mid-June 2013, the shelter was briefly closed to implement required improvements to the living conditions. We cheered when the county finally hired a full-time shelter manager. At this point we left the shelter and expanded our foster, adoption and spay-neuter programs and rabies clinics.

OUR MISSION:

To help homeless, neglected, and abused pets in Giles County, to place as many animals into homes or rescue organizations as possible; to offer assistance with spaying and neutering of pets in low income families; and to offer education to the community on the importance of spay/neuter, adoption, and other pet-related topics.