McDowell County Animal Services
McDowell County Animal Services is a partner of Best Friends, working together to save the lives of dogs and cats in communities like yours across the country
The Best Friends Network is made up of thousands of public and private shelters, rescue groups, spay/neuter organizations, and other animal welfare groups — all working to save the lives of dogs and cats in communities like yours across the country.
From McDowell County Animal Services
The purpose of the Animal Shelter adoption policy is to reduce the general health risk to the public associated with stray, vicious, and potentially rabid animals, to inhibit animal reproduction which further contributes to animal overpopulation in the county and to reduce the number of animals that the county much euthanize on a regular basis because of lack of suitable homes, adopters, and the presence of diseases.The Public Works Department oversees the Animal Shelter.The Shelter accepts stray or unwanted animals and serves as an Adoption Center for those animals that are adoptable.
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Best Friends Animal Society works alongside thousands of animal shelters, rescue groups, and other animal welfare organizations to save the lives of cats and dogs across the country and to make the entire country no-kill in 2025.
The Best Friends Network is comprised of thousands of animal welfare groups from every single state, all working to save the lives of pets in their own communities.
Ranging from animal shelters and rescue groups to spay/neuter and trap-neuter-vaccinate-return (TNVR) organizations, they collaborate with Best Friends to save even more lives in every corner of the country.
Best Friends provides marketing help, fundraising events, webinars, grants, and other resources so that, together, we can Save Them All.
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