Luce County Animal Shelter

06/21/2024

06/21/2024

Stray dog found out on Skyline Rd, Newberry. Safe at the shelter. If this is your dog or you recognize it, please contact the shelter at 906-293-6622

06/20/2024

This is how Roxie helps her mom change the bed sheets!

06/19/2024

You may have heard the expression “nature abhors a vacuum.” It refers to the phenomenon that when a space is emptied, nature will fill it. Once you understand this reality, you’ll know why killing cats (or otherwise removing them) from a given location is doomed to fail.

Understanding the Vacuum Effect is vital to saving lives. For cats who live outdoors, it is literally a matter of life and death.

So what exactly is the Vacuum Effect?

“[E]ach animal has their territory, they have their space. So when you remove them from that space, that allows somebody else to move in and thrive, because obviously, that animal was thriving there, which is why they were reproducing so much. So now that space that's probably plentiful with a warm spot to sleep, food and water is now available, there's free real estate there, somebody else can move in and start doing the same thing. . .[But] by going in and preventing them from reproducing, they still maintain that territory; they don't allow another animal to move in and start taking over. But they can live out their life, just the way that they were living before happy and content." (Marshall, Amber. Interview. By Diviya Roney, 26 April 2022).

06/19/2024

Good Morning Cat People!

06/19/2024

Some of the most caring people in the World are on this page! Thank you for being here and thank you for sharing. 🐈‍⬛️💕🐈

06/19/2024

It’s going to be another hot one today! Save your walks for early morning or later at night when it isn’t as hot and muggy! Stay safe out there!

06/18/2024

We appreciate people wanting to help kittens get to safety, but if you're helping kittens (best time to rescue kittens is around 5 weeks), make sure you are also helping the adult community cats get spayed/neutered or kittens will continue to appear OVER and OVER again.

When kittens are scooped up without a mom, she goes into heat fairly quickly and will have another litter in 2 months. It is vital to stop the cycle of nonstop littering and to get mom cat spayed to end the cycle of breeding!

Please contact us for information about low-cost clinics and TNR in and around Charlotte, NC

-OR- use this link if you're outside our area - https://www.animalleague.org/get-involved/spay-usa/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3g2S2PaIB2uSVOdmtpd7rrFfwhIRp5jUY80zU8xtDfz0PzEUHBVbnH0ok_aem_AfTGrQkPSf4WXJx4QJLEN6dScx1m-uC3cH7XRnHEdd0WO_Agjb_lMC-ru-LAnzz7UXvgxJNlhILoMX-Q4_T9z3ci .

SHELTERS and RESCUES ARE FULL. Please make sure that pet cats and community cats in your area are spayed and neutered. We must END the cycle!

06/18/2024

How Can You Tell if Your Cat is Pregnant?

If it’s breeding season and you have an unspayed female cat that goes out or has escaped, you might be wondering if she’s pregnant (which is very probable!) Or maybe there’s a cat you care for that lives outdoors and you’re not sure if she is spayed (or you want to have her spayed) and wonder if she might already be pregnant.
Telling whether or not a cat is pregnant is quite easy, especially if it’s towards the end of her term. At the earlier stages of a pregnancy, a visit to the vet can be more reliable in solving the mystery.
Your vet has several methods to tell if a cat is pregnant: feeling her belly (a simple hand exam), an ultrasound, and an x-ray. A hand exam can confirm pregnancy within two weeks of it but may have faulty results. An ultrasound will confirm pregnancy after the first two weeks of conceiving but will not give you the number of kittens to expect, while an x-ray can, but it may not always be accurate.

Here are some signs:
* Her heat cycle usually ceases within about a week after mating and she will not go into heat again until after she gives birth. You can tell she is pregnant if your cat doesn’t show any heat behavior for more than a month.
* Her belly appears bigger, and you can often make out a distinctive shape protruding towards the sides of the body. It looks obviously different than weight-gain.
* Her ni***es become bigger and redder, which is called pinking up.
* She shows extra affectionate behavior.
* There’s an increase in her appetite.
* She starts sleeping a bit more than usual.
Apart from these methods, you may easily observe signs of pregnancy, especially if it has been a month after she has mated.

06/17/2024

Update: Duke has been recovered, wet, dirty and hungry but he made his way back to the home he went missing from! He is safe! Thanks to all who cared, looked for him and shared the post!

This little guy is lost. He went missing from State Forest Drive, behind Everson Furniture Store, Newberry around 8:00 tonight. He is wearing a green collar, no tag. Weighs about 10 lbs. Please call his mom and dad if you have him or see him. Their number is 906-658-3131. Their names are Nicholas and Katlynn Jones. They are worried sick about him. Thank you!

06/15/2024

Twice the fun and cuteness! 🖤🧡

06/15/2024

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06/15/2024

Let's talk about this photo. It's cute, except it's not. I see a dog who cannot get up without telling the child to get off. How do you think a dog is going to do that?

The 7 Golden Toddler Dog Rules:
#1: If a dog walks away from you, you DO NOT FOLLOW.
#2: Always leave room for the dog to walk away from you.
---that right there is 90+% of dog bites eliminated---
#3: We do not climb on the dog.
#4: We do not grab or pull on the dog.
#5: We do not hit or throw anything at the dog.
#6: We do not touch the dog's food.
#7: We do not go into the dog's kennel.

I promise these are not overly difficult concepts for littles, nor will they rob a kid of their bond with the family dog. It will deepen that bond, while keeping everyone safe.

"Oh, it looks like Moose is walking away from you. She is saying she wants a break. Let's play with this instead!"

"It's Moose's dinner time! Let's give her space to enjoy her yummies."

"That is Moose's room(kennel) and only she is allowed to go in there."

"If Moose wanted a break, could she walk away from you right now? No she really couldn't. Let's move away from the play house. You can keep playing but now she can leave when she wants a break."

In conclusion, ***parent your child or your dog will do it for you, and you will not like how they do it.***

06/13/2024

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06/13/2024

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06/12/2024

Did You Know.......

06/12/2024

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06/12/2024

The passing of a beautiful soul.........😭💔
This beautiful senior boy was adopted from our shelter to the purrrfect home. He loved his life and was deeply loved to the very end. Here is what his mom sent us.....

06/11/2024

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06/11/2024

UPDATE: GREAT NEWS! PEACHES IS REUNITED WITH HER FAMILY!!
MISSING FOR ABOUT A WEEK FROM CARMODY ROAD. Peaches is small, calico Kitty missing for about a week on Carmody Road. If anyone sees Peaches, please contact the Shelter through FB Messenger or call the Shelter (906) 387-4131 or Peach's family (906) 387-5487. Thank you!

06/10/2024

06/09/2024

Meet Archie, this week's Adorable Adoptable! He is available for adoption at the Luce County Animal Shelter.

06/08/2024

This is one (of the 200) reasons to get your male cat neutered. Mating is not a pleasant experience for the female and sparing her any hook up will be to her benefit. One male can be responsible for 2500 kittens every year & we all cringe at the sound of males fighting over territory or females. Then there's the injuries they sustain during those fights. That's if they don't get hit on the road while searching for females. Give them all a break and get them spayed and neutered. 😸💕

06/08/2024

Babies can have babies. It is NOT a choice THEY make. It is a CHOICE YOU make for them.

PLEASE do the right thing - SPAY AND NEUTER 👏👏👏.

IF YOU FEED THEM - PLEASE FIX THEM.

06/08/2024

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