The Animal Protection Center of Southeastern Massachusetts (APCSM) is a 50
1(c)(3) education and outreach animal shelter serving Plymouth, Norfolk, and Bristol counties. Since 2009, we have placed over 10,000 animals into forever homes. Our Mission is to operate a managed admission animal care and adoption facility, with focus on prevention of cruelty to animals, education and outreach. The APCSM offers a variety of programs and events throughout the year and we encourage animal lovers of all ages to participate!
11/08/2025
‘tis the season🎄🎁✨
To help supplement our holiday donation drive, we’re launching an online raffle to help boost donations for our shelter animals!
Every ticket you purchase brings us closer to giving the animals at APCSM a better life. With your support, we can provide essential care, warm beds, healthy meals, and a loving environment until each animal finds their forever home!
From exciting prizes like a CAPE COD GETAWAY and local restaurant gift cards, there’s something for everyone – and each entry makes a difference!
All prizes must be picked up from the APCSM. Gift cards may be mailed out if requested😌
11/07/2025
The shelter will be CLOSED on November 11th in observance of Veterans Day
11/07/2025
not fair!🐹
11/07/2025
❤️it’s giving tuesday season!❤️
GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity. GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Since then, it has grown into a year-round global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.
📣 We're calling on our AWESOME shelter supporters to help us raise $15,000 for our homeless animals through donations and word-of-mouth. This year, Giving Tuesday is on Tuesday December 2nd.
👋We’d especially love to see you at our Holiday Open House & Donation Drive on Saturday, December 13th, from 1 to 5 PM🎄 see our wishlist to see our most needed items!
From the bottom of our hearts and paws, thank you ALL for the ongoing support and love💚
11/06/2025
💚ALUMNI UPDATE💚
“I adopted Cucumber when she was 5 months old and now she is over one year old! She has been a great addition to our family. She loves to cuddle and sleep with my son. She also loves her treats and her toys, and she even likes to play fetch like a dog! We love her personality!”
Thank you so much, Nancy, for this adorable update and photos! We’re so happy Cucumber ended up in such a great home😊🥒
⭐️ If you would like to share your APCSM adoption story or any updates, please send us an email
✉️[email protected]
11/06/2025
📣 our next PET YARD SALE will be on Saturday, November 22 from 10am-1pm
Come support the shelter by buying new and gently used pet supplies - items for dogs, cats, birds, fish and small animals!
11/05/2025
Thank you Martignetti Companies for all your generous help and giving love to the shelter animals!
11/04/2025
The shelter is in need some new litter scoops and magic erasers, if you're feeling inclined to donate we'd appreciate it! Only a few are needed but it will make a big difference. Amazon wish list linked here - thank you!🐾
Is anyone missing this cutie ? Found near Calumet street in Brockton . Please email or call the shelter !
Email- [email protected]
Phone - 508-586-2053
11/03/2025
Ziggy🥺
While the volunteers and staff love and spoil her every day, she deserves a family & home to call her own. Ziggy is a very friendly and loving gal who wiggles at anyone in sight - and kisses anyone in reach!
Ziggy would thrive in an adult-only home, as loud, chaotic environments and young children can make her anxious. She’s looking for a peaceful, calm home where she can relax and be her snuggly, goofy self🥰
Come meet this lovebug - she’s ready to steal your heart!💚
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Let me tell you a story. Way way back in 2009, when the economy was in mid-tank and non-profits across the board were feeling the pinch of people who could volunteer their time, their talent, but not their treasure because, let’s face it, no one had any, the MSPCA was faced with a terrible problem. It simply didn’t have the resources to keep all of its locations open and serving the communities. It was a smart non-profit doing good work but like any organization it needed money to function and animal shelters need more than most. You see, not only do animals have daily needs that can’t be put of if there isn’t enough money for food, litter, or medicines but the amount of personnel required to keep a shelter clean, stocked, and in good working order is mind-boggling.
Faced with this situation and with the great recession continuing into its second year the MSPCA made a difficult choice. They would close 3 of their locations. Brockton, Springfield, and Martha’s Vineyard. This was kind of like the equivalent of a doctor amputating an arm to save the patient and it had to be done but it hit the communities of Southeastern Massachusetts hard, especially Easton and Brockton.
After the initial shock of it wore off a small group of Brockton shelter volunteers started talking and eventually found themselves in the finished basement of one of their own houses. Around the room sat a couple of business people, a veterinarian, the executive director of the Brockton shelter, and a few other dedicated volunteers who began to discuss an alternative plan. Could they, themselves, raise the funds to keep the shelter going as an independent entity? The talk led to research, the research led to a plan, and on October 1, 2009 the Animal Protection Center of Southeastern Massachusetts incorporated as an independent shelter. Our friends at the MSPCA not only blessed the venture but eventually sold us the land the shelter occupied for $1, land it still stands on now.
Today the APCSM is it’s own shelter with no ties to the MSPCA except for a friendly relationship. That’s an important distinction so I’ll say it again. We love them and the work they do but we are NOT the MSPCA. We receive no money from them, no food or supplies, no animals. We cannot use their veterinarians or medicines, their machines or resources. When you donate to them we do not get a dime and when you donate to us it all stays here. We both do good work for animals and we both passionately serve our missions to educate and serve the community. We love them but we’re not them. We’re you.
Our volunteers outnumber our staff 15 to 1. Visit our bake sale? Those are volunteers behind the table, most likely two friends who live in Brockton and Stoughton. That yoga teacher doing Meow-Ga? A volunteer who teaches professionally in Arlington. The lady patiently petting the scared kitty to help socialize her? She comes in from West Bridgewater. The Santa doing our holiday photos? Straight from the North Pole! We love the MSPCA but we are the Animal Protection Center of Southeastern Massachusetts. We are Southeastern Massachusetts’ community animal shelter.
