We are celebrating our public grand opening  on Saturday, August 18, from 11am - 2pm at the New Vale Road facility, located behind Ingles Food Center in Newland. Tours of our animals, adoption and education center, will be available. Meet local and county officials, as well as our shelter staff and volunteers. Hot dogs and lemonade will be provided, generously
donated by Ingles. Bring your family to this exciting event and be amazed at the wonderful animal care shelter in Avery County.

 

Leslie Carter, our new chairperson remarked, "This is an opportunity for Avery County residents to see how well their animals are being care for and that their time and money has been well spent. Our new board members are enthusiastic and staff personnel are pleased with the new, positive attitude at the shelter. Since moving into the building, we are saving more lives and seeing so many adoptions of dogs, puppies, cats and kittens," she added. Charlene Calhoun, shelter manager, said, "Since moving into the new shelter, the adoption rate has just about doubled every month. I am very happy with the new positive attitude among board, staff and volunteers. It is a challenging, exciting and friendly place to work. We are very proud of the new home for Avery County animals. "  

We expected to see an increase in adoptions, but nothing like the last few months. There is little doubt that our marketing presence is attracting people from all over the country, not just in North Carolina and surrounding states. Recently, someone interested in adopting a pet visited our website and drove from Massachusetts to take one of our "angels".  We're told most of our  photographs look professional and they are. Working together, Charlene Calhoun and Bill Avery make sure our animals look their very best. Care and maintenance is costly, but worth it.  Please help us keep adoptions growing!Take a look

This friendly little shop next to the shelter brings in much needed revenue. If you have any high quality items you would like to donate, please stop by 279 New Vale Road in Newland, We also have many beautiful items that are heavily discounted. Bring your friends and family and browse our merchandise. We offer more for less! They are open every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.  

Elaine Burri, a highly trained professional dog trainer, is offering for a limited time free training for any dog adopted from us. Come in for details.

Snuggles Needs A Home

Merl is age two and should be in a single animal home.  He is loyal and will make an excellent watch dog, as well as a wonderful companion. Merl can be trained in our new adopt a dog training program offered by Elaine Burri.