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Shelters are one of the first places that people tend to take stray animals they have found. Shelters are typically funded by local or state government and thus, are on a budget. This limits their ability to keep pets for long periods of time while waiting for them to be saved or adopted. Some even have time constraints on how long they can keep an animal before it is euthanized. In addition to filing a lost animal report with your local shelter, we also encourage you to contact rescue groups should you find a stray you cannot keep. Listed below are animal shelters in North Carolina by city. Shelters that use the gas chamber are coded (G) . ARGNC.com prefers injection as the most humane way to euthanize animals. If your local shelter uses gas chambers, please take the time as a local concerned citizen to contact them about changing to the more humane injection method. Additionally, we'd like to suggest, that if your city's shelter uses a gas chamber, please consider taking the animal to a vet to be euthanize humanely. It can be as much as $50.00 to do so, perhaps even more, but some vets may even do it at no charge so they, too, can do their share to ensure animals for whom homes cannot be found or who are diseased or injured beyond saving are euthanized humanely. Most shelters do the best they can to save animals, but the limits they experience are not conducive to saving large percentages of the animals. There are even some shelters that will contact rescue groups when they find an animal already domesticated and know that it would adopt quickly. Shelters have a place in our society, but it is incumbent upon society to ensure they are prepared, funded and motivated to follow humane procedures. Without your help, shelters only do what they can or are budgeted to do. We support and encourage the efforts of the public towards ensuring our shelters are properly funded and managed with the goal of humanely euthanizing animals that do not get adopted. A shelter is only as good as the community in which it resides. Resource Links & Petitions: 1037 Coble Ave, Albemarle NC (704) 791-4096 Asheboro
Bitter Sweet Wildlife Haven Black Mountain
North Carolina Society-Prevention (G) Boone
Watauga
County Animal Control
Boone
Watauga
Humane Society Brevard
Brevard County Animal Shelter Bryson City
Paws Animal Shelter Charlotte:
Charlotte Humane Society Charlotte: Charlotte
& Mecklenburg County Animal Control
Bureau (G) Clayton:
Johnston County SPCA Clinton:
Sampson Animal Shelter Cornelius/Huntersville-
Cornelius Animal Shelter Concord
Humane Society of Concord Crumpler:
Ashe County Animal Control Currituck:
Currituck County Animal Control Dobson:
Surry County Animal Shelter Durham
Animal
Protection Society of Durham County (G) Germanton Stokes County Grantsboro
Pamlico Animal Welfare Society Greensboro
Guilford County Animal Shelter Greenville:
Pitt County Animal Shelter
Hendersonville
Henderson County Animal Shelter Hickory
Western Piedmont Humane Society (G) Lenoir
Caldwell County Animal Shelter (G) Lexington
Davidson County Animal Shelter Lillington
Harnett County Animal Control Louisburg
Franklin
County Animal Shelter Manteo
Dare County Animal Shelter Marble
Valley
River Animal Shelter Marion
McDowell County Animal Shelter Morehead City
Crystal Coast Animal League Morganton
Morganton Animal Shelter Murphy
Murphy Animal Shelter Nashville
Humane Society of Edgecombe (G) New Bern
Craven Pamlico Animal Service Raeford
The Haven-Friends for Life Raeford
Hoke County Animal Shelter Raleigh
Wake
County Animal Shelter Rockingham
Rockingham Animal Shelter (G) Rocky Mount
Rocky Mount Animal Shelter (G) Roxboro
Roxboro Animal Shelter Rutherford
Rutherford Animal Shelter (G) Salisbury
Rowan
County Animal Control Salisbury
Salisbury
Animal Shelter (G) Shelby
Cleveland County Humane Society (G) Supply
Brunswick
County Animal Services
Sylva
Jackson County Animal Shelter (G) Tyner Tri-County Animal Shelter Wadesboro AnsonCounty Animal Shelter Waynesville
Haywood County Animal Shelter (G) Whiteville Columbus County Animal Shelter SR 1441, Williamston, NC 252-792-6910 Williamston Martin County Humane Society 9546 US Highway 17, Williamston, NC 252-809-0667 (G) WilkesboroWilkes County Animal Shelter 408 Call Street, Wilkesboro, NC 336-703-7688 Wilson
Wilson
County Animal Shelter Winston Salem Forsyth County Animal Shelter CONTRIBUTIONS Our work is dependent on contributions. ARGNC needs your help and support to continue to make our rescue efforts a sucess.
 
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