SUPPORT OUR PETS FOR LIFE PROGRAM

Help us Keep Families Together

YOUR GIFT DOUBLES

Up to $25,000!

A missed paycheck, or unplanned veterinary bill can mean the difference between a beloved pet remaining in the home or giving that pet up to a shelter. Pets for Life is a Charleston Animal Society outreach program that provides food, veterinary care and support services for families in many of our urban and rural communities. Now through Saturday, an anonymous donor is DOUBLING all gifts to Pets for Life up to $25,000. Please Give and help us keep families together.

Our Outreach Teams Help URBAN AREAS RURAL AREAS WITH FENCE BUILDS WITH FREE-ROAMING CATS

Helping Families Keep their Pets for Life

Pets for Life

Helping Hands for Rural Paws

Rural Outreach

PETS FOR LIFE

Pets for Life is a community outreach program that focuses on supporting families and their pets in underserved parts of our community. Launched in 2014, the program focuses on North Charleston but it has since grown to include rural parts of our community including Hollywood, Ravenel, and Edisto Island. This program seeks to address and overcome the barriers families face in accessing the basic services and resources to care for the pets they love. Charleston Animal Society is committed to meeting the community where they are instead of waiting for situations to reach the point where animals have to enter the shelter. This “boots on the ground” outreach initiatives has our outreach staff going door-to-door in focus areas building individual relationships with families and their pets. Pets for Life provides free spay or neuter services with transportation, vaccinations, and other pet resources to help support families so they can keep their pets for life! This program is made possible with support from the Humane Society of the United States.

RURAL OUTREACH

Helping Hands for Rural Paws is funded through a grant from the WaterShed Animal Fund that encourages community partners like Charleston Animal Society to create lasting, transformative change. Since its launch in 2018, Helping Hands for Rural Paws has driven the Simon Greer Mobile Spay Neuter Clinic thousands of miles helping as it repeatedly visits rural communities across Charleston County. Focus communities include Hollywood, Ravenel, Awendaw, McClellanville, Edisto Island, Wadmalaw Island and Johns Island. Helping Hands for Rural Paws provides families with access to free wellness exams, vaccinations, and spay or neuter services through community events held directly in the community. By eliminating barriers such as transportation and cost we are making veterinary services accessible in areas where there was no access before. Thousands of pets and families have benefited from this amazing program.

FENCE BUILDS

Fence Builds are a popular part of Charleston Animal Society’s Pets for Life program. Our fence build program helps carefully selected families whose animals would benefit from a fenced-in backyard. Many times, people who love their animals cannot afford a fence and the animal ends up chained to a porch or garage. Also, one of the number one reasons that animals wind up in shelters involves landlord issues involving pets. A fenced-in yard will often times convince a landlord to allow the pet stay with their loving family. Area companies and organizations routinely sponsor and volunteer their time for a fence build that typically take place on Saturdays. To sponsor a build or volunteer, email Aldwin Roman at [email protected]

PLEASE GIVE

Your gifts make all of our lifesaving work possible at Charleston Animal Society. Thank you for giving to the animals.

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ADOPT A PET

All of our pets come spay-neutered, vaccinated and microchipped. Can you make room for one more? When you adopt, you save a life!

Dogs Cats

FOSTER AN ANIMAL

When you foster, we supply everything you need to be successful — you supply the love! Be our shelter outside the shelter!

Foster

SPAY NEUTER

Have your pet spayed or neutered at our AAHA-accredited Sam Greer Spay-Neuter Clinic. We treat your pet like he’s our own.

Spay-Neuter

Our Adoptable Animals Come SPAY-NEUTERED VACCINATED MICROCHIPPED

More than an Animal Shelter

Charleston Animal Society touches the lives of 20,000 animals each year, whether it is through our lifesaving efforts, adoption, spay-neuter or other rescue services.

AAHA Accredited Spay-Neuter Clinic

Our Sam Greer Spay-Neuter Clinic is accredited by AAHA (American Animal Hospital Association), representing the highest standards of veterinary excellence.

Outreach

Thanks to community and national partners, Charleston Animal Society is able to provide services to people and their pets who may not get them otherwise in both rural and urban communities. We also provide humane education in classrooms and summer camps.

Animal Advocacy

Charleston Animal Society’s bedrock principle is the prevention of cruelty to animals. We will always strive to be the voice of animals in our community and beyond and fight cruelty, wherever it exists.

Frisky a Go Go!

Applause for Paws Gala

Join us and help save lives!
Enjoy extraordinary entertainment, live and silent auction, dinner, dancing, and drinks all in an effort to save more animals in our community.

OCTOBER 23
6:30PM – 10:30PM
Charleston Gaillard Center
95 Calhoun St, Charleston, SC 29401

All proceeds will benefit the medical fund at Charleston Animal Society

Gala Info

Join us at an event this weekend…

Fun Community Events

Almost every weekend you will find Charleston Animal Society at a variety of community events, showcasing our amazing adoptable animals. You can also see our adoptable cats and dogs at area Petcos and PetSmarts on a rotating basis. Come say hello!

We love being engaged with the public at grand opening events, fun weekend parties and all sorts of festivals. Please check out our events calendar and support the businesses and organizations that support our homeless animals!

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So easy and so impactful!

Fundraise on Facebook

Want to do something for your birthday? Raise money for the animals on Facebook! Making a Facebook fundraiser happen is so easy, and yet it does so much for our community animals.

Go to your account
Select “Start a Fundraiser”
Select “Charleston Animal Society” as your charity
Smile as you do something awesome for the animals

Learn More

5,000

Adoptions

Cruelty Cases Investigated

10,500

Spay-Neuters

22,000

Humane Education Lessons to Children

Our Community Animals are Counting on You.

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