The Unicoi County Animal Shelter operates to provide a safe haven for the animals of Unicoi County. We operate as an animal control và adoption center. All of our pets are loved and given the best care possible. We depend on the support of volunteers, adopters, and rescues lớn keep saving lives. We are a small shelter, have a very small staff, & put our hearts and souls into our animals. Come visit with us!185 N Industrial DrErwin, Tn 37650Phone: 423-743-3071
Do you need to find a loving home for your pet?
No-kill shelters do wonderful work, but as a result, are often inundated with pet surrenders. In the unfortunate scenario that you have to lớn find a new home for your pet, please read through the rehoming solution và articles on this page before contacting the shelter.
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1. Feral mèo TNR Program
Many communities are embracing Trap, Neuter, Release programs (TNR) lớn improve animal welfare, reduce death rates, & meet obligations to public welfare.
2. High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter
Low cost, high volume spay/neuter will quickly lead to fewer animals entering the shelter system, allowing more resources khổng lồ be allocated toward saving lives.
3. Rescue Groups
An adoption or transfer lớn a rescue group frees up scarce cage và kennel space, reduces expenses for feeding, cleaning, killing, and improves a community"s rate of lifesaving. In an environment of millions of dogs & cats killed in shelters annually, rare is the circumstance in which a rescue group should be denied an animal.
4. Foster Care
Volunteer foster care is crucial to lớn No Kill. Without it, saving lives is compromised. It is a low cost, & often no cost, way of increasing a shelter"s capacity, improving public relations, increasing a shelter"s public image, rehabilitating sick & injured or behaviorally challenged animals, và saving lives.
5. Comprehensive Adoption Programs
Adoptions are vital lớn an agency"s lifesaving mission. The quantity and quality of shelter adoptions is in shelter management"s hands, making lifesaving a direct function of shelter policies and practice. In fact, studies show people get their animals from shelters only 20% of the time. If shelters better promoted their animals & had adoption programs responsive to lớn the needs of the community, including public access hours for working people, offsite adoptions, adoption incentives, & effective marketing, they could increase the number of homes available and replace killing with adoptions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, shelters can adopt their way out of killing.
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6. Pet Retention
While some of the reasons animals are surrendered lớn shelters are unavoidable, others can be prevented-but only if shelters are willing khổng lồ work with people lớn help them solve their problems. Saving animals requires communities to develop innovative strategies for keeping people & their companion animals together. Và the more a community sees its shelters as a place khổng lồ turn for advice & assistance, the easier this job will be.
7. Medical and Behavior Programs
In order lớn meet its commitment to lớn a lifesaving guarantee for all savable animals, shelters need to lớn keep animals happy & healthy và keep animals moving through the system. To vì this, shelters must put in place comprehensive vaccination, handling, cleaning, socialization, và care policies before animals get sick and rehabilitative efforts for those who come in sick, injured, unweaned, or traumatized.
8. Public Relations/Community Involvement
Increasing adoptions, maximizing donations, recruiting volunteers & partnering with community agencies comes down to lớn one thing: increasing the shelter"s exposure. & that means consistent marketing and public relations. Public relations and sale are the foundation of all a shelter"s activities và their success. To vị all these things well, the shelter must be in the public eye.
9. Volunteers
Volunteers are a dedicated "army of compassion" và the backbone of a successful No Kill effort. There is never enough staff, never enough dollars lớn hire more staff, & always more needs than paid human resources. That is where volunteers come in & make the difference between success và failure and, for the animals, life & death.
10. Proactive Redemptions
One of the most overlooked areas for reducing killing in animal control shelters are lost animal reclaims. Sadly, besides having pet owners fill out a lost pet report, very little effort is made in this area of shelter operations. This is unfortunate because doing so-primarily shifting from passive to a more proactive approach-has proven khổng lồ have a significant impact on lifesaving & allow shelters lớn return a large percentage of lost animals to lớn their families.
11. A Compassionate Director
The final element of the No Kill equation is the most important of all, without which all other elements are thwarted-a hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired cliches or hide behind the myth of "too many animals, not enough homes." Unfortunately, this one is also oftentimes the hardest one lớn demand and find.
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I am disgusted to find a website like this. Just because a shelter is mở cửa admission (meaning they don’t turn anyone away), that does NOT mean they are “Pro Kill”! This is the first time I’ve heard of this horrible, slanderous term & anyone with a brain and a heart would be disgusted, too! Shame on you for aiding in the deaths of shelter animals because of your ignorant terminology. If a person sees a shelter as “bad” then they will not support it. Và it’s the tư vấn from the community that shelters so desperately need in order to lớn fulfill their purpose in SAVING lives! No shelter worker WANTS to kill animals. The REAL murderers are 1) people who are irresponsible pet owners that don’t get their pets fixed, 2) people who buy animals instead of adopting, 3) people who breed animals on purpose to lớn sell them, và 4) people lượt thích those in charge of this trang web who slander the very ones they should be supporting the most. The terms “kill, no kill, và pro kill” are very misleading và contribute khổng lồ the deaths of animals. Think for just a second. Most county và city shelters are a provision of the local governments for people to turn in animals they catch or they can no longer keep. These shelters are paid for by the TAXES of the community residents. They are obligated lớn take every cat and dog (and sometimes other animals) that is brought to lớn them, no matter how filled the shelter is. Now tell me, if that was YOUR situation, what would you bởi with all of those animals if people just kept bringing them in but no one wanted to support you with their donations, volunteering, fostering & adopting? Can you magically house hundreds & hundreds of animals in a relatively small building? No? Then WHAT are you going to vày with ALL of those animals?! EXACTLY! You would have NO choice but khổng lồ humanely euthanize many of those animals. But if you take that SAME shelter & have tons of support coming in from the community with people donating, volunteering, fostering & adopting, then that shelter would not be FORCED TO vì THE DIRTY WORK OF THE VERY SAME COMMUNITY THAT CONDEMNS THEM!!!! The creators of this trang web are SICK, IGNORANT, ARROGANT PRICKS and this website should be taken down. SHAME SHAME SHAME on you. We ALL need to be responsible và spay/neuter our animals and SHOWER our local shelters with love and support. Và you need to STOP using the “kill” terms. There are TWO types of shelters: mở cửa Admission & Limited Admission. Xuất hiện Admission means they have to lớn take in every animal no matter how packed they are, và Limited Admission means they can turn people away if they are at capacity or if they just don’t want that specific animal. Educate yourselves & stop spreading this evil, sickening lie.
Your perspectives are valuable for people to hear - và truly represent the "status quo" way of thinking. What you are missing, and the reason that so many organizations & even entire states have become "no kill", is that the status quo is no longer accepted because models like the no-kill equation (https://www.nokilladvocacycenter.org/no-kill-equation.html) have been proven over và over again lớn be effective at eliminating killing in any community, regardless of funding, as soon as the decision is made to stop the killing. Mix aside any preconceptions and biases you have and read the mã sản phẩm objectively. If you are a reader, also read more about the history of the animal shelter industry in the book "redemption" by Nathan Winograd. Websites like this one exist in order lớn save animals by promoting education và progressive thinking on difficult, emotional topics lượt thích this one. To not use the words "kill" và "no kill" is to lớn lessen the emotional impact that they carry with them, and therefore minimize the realization of the outcome that each word implies - one results in the death of an animal that did not need lớn die, the other results in allowing an animal to live and helping lớn improve their lives as they live. So I applaud websites lượt thích this for the approach that they take in the wording and the help that they provide to lớn the cause of saving lives through advocacy efforts.