Purrfect Pooches

Due to state mandated repairs the shelter will be closing at 5pm on 5/20/26 and tentatively reopening on 6/3/26.

During this time no animals or staff can be onsite. All operations will stop. All intakes will stop at 4pm on 5/17/26 and all animals MUST BE GONE BY 5pm on 5/20/26!

We have been working for weeks making arrangements with area rescues to network animals out! And we are continuing to do so AROUND THE CLOCK!

What we need from you:

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Keep your pets! Yup we all know… times are tough, life is busy… all the things - but honestly NOW is NOT the time to bring your pet to PCAS unless it is a life or death situation!

Strays LOOK for resources! Stop providing a resource (a reason) and they will stop residing there! The more food, affection and companionship you provide - why would they leave? Put the trash in animal proof containers, dont throw scraps in the woods, don’t “free feed” your pets - assigned times - this is really better for them and saves you money! Set that food down at designated times and pick up in 15min! They will learn the pattern and be ready to eat! Prevents spoilage, over eating and freeloaders🤣

Don’t kitten-nap (kidnap)! Kittens (bottle babies) rarely survive the shelter. Between GI upset, viruses, and fading kitten syndrome - stealing kittens and taking them to the shelter isn’t “saving a life”. Mom is almost ALWAYS around she is hiding, hunting, being a good “wild mom”. Their chances are just as good if not better right there!

Strays are often not far from home. Take a photo and post in the Pender County Lost & Found Pets page, and in any area/community pages to give them a chance to be identified by a local friend or family member!

Due to area shelter over crowding, we have very limited mutual aid resources available during this required shut down! No intakes will be permitted.

We ask for everyones patience and as much assistance as possible helping us clear the shelter ahead of this closure 🥹🫶💕

We need serious help. This adorable munchkin is Sebastian. He showed up yesterday and we were pretty much horrified. He is twelve weeks old, a Great Pyrenees mix and his front leg is not okay. He’s not tucking it under to be adorable. That paw is bent backwards and folded over like a pretzel under his chest and it’s incredibly painful to him. I’ve been doing this for over 20 years, and I do not enjoy seeing something new, because “new” usually means “really bad.” This is really bad. I don’t know how this happened and I’m not sure I want to know.

What I do know is that he is on his way to the orthopedic surgeon this morning, and this is going to be expensive. There is no version of this that is cheap or simple. And here’s the reality: we do not really have the money for this. Right now we also have THREE girls waiting on bilateral ACL surgeries. That’s six knees and those six knees are in dire need of repair. More on them later this week. We are stretched thin in a way that isn’t fixable with good intentions and caffeine, although I am doing my best on the Red Bull front.

Sebastian deserves a shot at a normal life and we’d like to give it to him. If you’d like to donate $5 to help, you can do so here:

Donate: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=LPNJEHNPR8AUU
Stripe: https://donate.stripe.com/cN2dTq20J4H7aBi144
Venmo: (make sure you have exactly this spelling – there are copycat accounts that are fake).

Thanks as always. If you donate via Venmo, please make the transaction private and not public. The Nigerian princes are out there scalping your public contact info. If you can’t donate, spread the word. We appreciate all of you as always.

For April only, I’m doing an “Inflation Buster” price of only $69 for the basic 4 week class with the AKC CGC test at the end. Call or text for dates and times. 910-777-9968
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