Friends of Campbell County Animal Control

11/23/2024

All setup at the Greenview Fall Bazaar and ready to sell calendars which are a great gift for animal loving friends and family. Only $10. Our supplies are dwindling so come out soon. (We are right under the Cross on the Church.)

11/23/2024

Energetic and wanting to please: Apollo! He is more than ready to find a home. He plays hard with other dogs, so just needs some guidance when it comes to hanging out with multiple other dogs during playtime. He does great with the foster dogs around him at his foster home, and enjoys playing with one of the female canine companions who is about the same age, Serena. Apollo can scale a 6 foot fence if he is confined to a small dog lot, but does well in a yard where a taller fence shows him his boundaries. He is housetrained, and cratetrained! He loves playing with toys, and can run for hours. He does have prey-drive around smaller animals—not unusual with energetic shepherds—and we don’t recommend a home with cats or poultry. He is non-reactive to livestock and was fine with the horse that was housed in the pasture next to him recently. if you’re looking for a dog with energy, and a happy attentive attitude with intelligence and ability, look no further: Apollo needs you!

Apply to adopt here: www.friendsofcampbellcounty.org

11/22/2024

UPDATE: Marley has found a trainer to work with him, thanks to volunteer Jackie, and the trainer has asked that the first thing we do is a complete physical exam for Marley including x-rays to make sure his issues are behavioral rather than physical. We will deal with both! Marley’s appointment is Monday! Thanks to everyone for your support, to Jackie, to Rustburg Veterinary Clinic, and to Jenny Cole, trainer.
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We are puzzled as how to best market our little short legged Marley. With his cute little size he should be easy to place, one would think. However, he’s had trouble getting along with other dogs, and Marley is against being picked up. We don’t know if something happened to him at some point when he was picked up, but he has told us NO! So we have to rely on Marley to take himself wherever he wants to go, whether it be jumping up into a truck or a car or going into a building. We think that if a trainer worked with him with positive reinforcement and was willing to teach him to be conditioned to handling, he would probably do much better. Marley has been with us for a couple months now. He is neutered, and he’s doing much better with his house training.

What we would like for Marley is a fenced yard, and a family that doesn’t care about picking him up but will let him handle his own explorations.

We think no children or children that are older —teenagers —will be much better for him. Maybe even someone who is pretty much stuck at home who can just love him and not need him to interact with other dogs.

We have heard various snippets of information about his past, and understand he already survived one owner who passed away, and then lived with another owner, and then temporarily was taken care of by a neighbor. It’s rough to be a shelter dog and not have consistent history following you so we’re doing the best we can to ease his transition into a forever home. Because your expectations may be different than what we know he needs, we will probably grill you pretty hard if you apply for him so that we can make sure we are all on the same page. The most important thing is to give this little boy plenty of adjustment time at a new home, don’t have new people come in and out immediately, and don’t plan to take him anywhere in the first few weeks. If you can help us by following this guideline, we can probably match you up to Marley.

Start with an application from our website: www.friendsofcampbellcounty.org. There’s a home out there for every deserving dog and maybe you’re the one for Marley.

11/22/2024

Health certificates for pups and dogs traveling out of our state are required. yesterday we took seven lively puppies to our friends at Seven Hills Animal Hospital so they could be checked out and certified for travel. It was quite an event!

11/22/2024

Five year old FISHTOPHER, a stray cat from Gordon Street, was neutered at the LHS Spay/Neuter Clinic on Thursday. we were concerned about his feline leukemia status and we’re relieved to find out he is negative, but we did discover he has really horrible dental disease with several broken teeth, and desperately needs a dentistry so he can comfortably keep on living. We are opening up a fund just for him so we can try to get enough funds together to fix his mouth. This boy is the bees knees when it comes to being snuggly and cuddly and friendly with humans and other cats. Can you help us?

Here’s how to donate:

*FB Donate Button on our page
*PayPal: [email protected]
*VENMO: FOAC Campbell, code 2598
*Checks: FOAC, 1400 Edley Place, Lynchburg, VA, 24502
*Cash: taken at the shelter: 322 Dennis Riddle Drive, Rustburg.

11/22/2024

Parker loves to curl up on the scratching pad of this interactive toy at his foster home! The other cats are a little peeved because they want to use it for scratching. Show us your cat’s favorite strange place to hang out!

11/22/2024

Update: Thor visited the vet on Friday for a complete exam, including senior bloodwork. The vet noted that his back end is weak [not sure if he was tied out, but this is not unusual in dogs that have been tied out], but his lungs and heart sounded good. Whew! His senior bloodwork was sent "out," so we won't know anything until next week. Thor does need both cherry eyes repaired and of course, needs a neuter.

He is eating well, and after 24 hours has already decided that we are the best thing to happen to him in nine years! We appreciate dogs like Thor!

We are hoping bloodwork looks good, so we can move ahead with surgery and placement. We did discover that Thor is fine with obnoxious dogs, (check the video in the comments, where Birdie did everything she could to aggravate him so he would play with her!)

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Nine-year-old THOR, a boxer (mix?), is the newest resident at the Campbell County Shelter. unfortunately, we don’t have the details handy as to why he was surrendered. He was happy to have a thick warm blanket to snuggle on yesterday when the temperatures dropped outside late in the afternoon. We don’t know much about him other than he has two cherry eyes so may have a little trouble seeing. “Cherry eye” can be corrected fairly easily with surgery. This boy has not yet been neutered. We look forward to getting to know more about him today.

This is a rough time to be a dog in a shelter. Seniors are really struggling because of the concrete surfaces they must live on, as well as the continual change in temperatures. Can you help? We’d love to have a sponsor for this boy especially so we can get him to the vet and get him checked over!

11/21/2024

Come see us and purchase a calendar for only $10. We are at the Rustburg Ruritan Community Farmer's Market Holiday Market from 3-6pm. It's nice and warm in here so check out all the vendors, plus A Heavenly Sandwich food truck is here if you need dinner ideas. It smells so good!!

11/21/2024

Energetic and wanting to please: Apollo! He is more than ready to find a home. He plays hard with other dogs, so just needs some guidance when it comes to hanging out with multiple other dogs during playtime. He does great with the foster dogs around him at his foster home, and enjoys playing with one of the female canine companions who is about the same age, Serena. Apollo can scale a 6 foot fence if he is confined to a small dog lot, but does well in a yard where a taller fence shows him his boundaries. He is housetrained, and cratetrained! He loves playing with toys, and can run for hours. He does have prey-drive around smaller animals—not unusual with energetic shepherds—and we don’t recommend a home with cats or poultry. He is non-reactive to livestock and was fine with the horse that was housed in the pasture next to him recently. if you’re looking for a dog with energy, and a happy attentive attitude with intelligence and ability, look no further: Apollo needs you! Find an application here: www.friendsofcampbellcounty.org.

11/21/2024

APPLE was adopted two weeks ago, and as you can see from the picture, she is settling easily and quite comfortably into her new home. We’re respecting the privacy of her family by not showing them in the photo, but we feel Apple deserves all the attention she can get! Thanks to her foster mom for keeping her safe and socializedwhile she was waiting for family to show up.

11/21/2024

Lost Pups! Have you seen us? From Lawyers Road area. (1507 Lawyers Rd. Right across from the paving company.) Call 540.494.0185.

11/21/2024

Energetic and wanting to please: Apollo! He is more than ready to find a home. He plays hard with other dogs, so just needs some guidance when it comes to hanging out with multiple other dogs during playtime. He does great with the foster dogs around him at his foster home, and enjoys playing with one of the female canine companions who is about the same age, Serena. Apollo can scale a 6 foot fence if he is confined to a small dog lot, but does well in a yard where a taller fence shows him his boundaries. He is housetrained, and cratetrained! He loves playing with toys, and can run for hours. He does have prey-drive around smaller animals—not unusual with energetic shepherds—and we don’t recommend a home with cats or poultry. He is non-reactive to livestock and was fine with the horse that was housed in the pasture next to him recently. if you’re looking for a dog with energy, and a happy attentive attitude with intelligence and ability, look no further: Apollo needs you!

Applications are found here: www.friendsofcampbellcounty.org

11/20/2024

Blessings arrive at the most opportune times— we were blessed this morning with a volunteer who was able to drive Sammy and Kittens partway to a foster caregiver in New Jersey!

Sammy was here for surgery on his leg and now that he has recovered nicely, he’s ready to go back to his foster home. If you visited the shelter in the last couple weeks, you may have seen Sammy, because he came along with his “medical foster” mom when she needed to run errands. He is such a good boy, but we know he’ll be much happier at home. And as for the kittens, tiny kittens do not do well at the shelter, so we were excited that a rescue was looking for baby kittens. Thank you to everyone who is involved in caring for the many little ones and big ones at our shelter.

11/20/2024

No other information, but perhaps you know this dog.

Found running around in the middle of the road in hurt. Is this your dog?

11/20/2024

Adopted nine years ago: Lilo!

She is aging beautifully! Thanks to her family for sharing her beginnings and happy life with us. (They also shared our original FB post from 2015.)

11/19/2024

Annie enjoyed a memorable weekend, fostering strong relationships with the family's pets, and has since been welcomed as Sadie, a valued new addition to the household. Congratulations are in order for Sadie's successful adoption!