This year, we are again participating in a statewide adoption event. The Midnight Madness is scheduled for Saturday, March 20. We are going to open the shelter at 4:00 p.m. and close again at 9:00 p.m. The adoption fees will be reduced to $50, and will still include the spay/neuter surgery, rabies shot, and health [...]

Recently, a person in a chat group e-mailed me a video of a parrot that had been captured after a few weeks living in neighborhood trees. People had put food out for the bird, but she eluded capture for a long time.  It usually is very hard to capture a bird, even if they are completely tame.  A [...]

As news of the horrific aftermath of the recent massive earthquake has been told, animal lovers have also wondered what has happened to the animals in Haiti. The Humane Society of the United States estimates that 500,000 dogs and cats live in the impoverished nation. An untold number of horses and donkeys are also used [...]

As part of an expanded transfer program, on Thursday, January 14, two little dachshunds left the shelter in Danville to go to a large private shelter in the Tidewater area. These dachshunds, Beebee and Lilly, had been with us since September 2008. A large puppy mill in West Virginia was being shut down, and we [...]

The goal of any good animal welfare organization should be to reduce the number of unwanted companion animals being born, thereby reducing the number of animals who are euthanized. For years, groups have struggled to promote programs that best suit the needs of their particular communities in order to meet the goal of reducing the [...]

One of the hazards of working at an animal shelter is that you fall in love practically every day with another animal. Our board president, Lynn Shelton, and his wife, Cindy, have a special place in their hearts for cats and birds. They have been grieving recently over the loss of their shelter-adopted cat, Abby, [...]