Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter

10/10/2025

10/09/2025

🚨EMERGENCY FOSTER NEEDED🚨

This little guy is only 3 weeks old and needs to be placed in a foster home so he can thrive! He is eating a mix of canned kitten food and formula currently. He is super social and loving, so if you are an experienced kitten foster we need your help!

Please call us at 205-752-9101
or
email us at [email protected]

10/09/2025

🎉 What a week it’s been so far! Thanks to the incredible support from our community and the Bissell Pet Foundation’s Empty the Shelters event, we kicked off the week with a wave of adoptions—and a whole lot of happily ever afters 🐾💕

But we’re not done yet! $10 adoptions continue through 10/15, and we’re hoping to match even more pets with their perfect people. Foster pets are included too—just give us a call to make sure they can be brought in to meet you!

🏡 Shelter hours: 12–6 PM (closed Sundays & Wednesdays)
👀 Preview adoptable pets: metroanimalshelter.org/adopt
🚶‍♀️ Best way to find your new best friend? Come walk through in person!

If you’ve visited the shelter, you’ve seen it firsthand—many many cats and dogs waiting in kennels, hoping for a second chance. We’re working every day to make life better for these animals, and every adoption is a step toward that goal. 💛

To every adopter who opened their heart and home this week: THANK YOU. You didn’t just adopt—you saved a life. 💖

Let’s keep the magic going. Your future furry soulmate might be waiting right now…

10/06/2025

🎉 The BISSELL Pet Foundation’s Empty the Shelters event is STILL GOING—and so are the celebrations! 🎉

We’re thrilled to congratulate our newest adopters for opening their hearts and homes to these incredible animals. You didn’t just adopt—you saved a life. 💛 Every wag, purr, and cuddle is thanks to YOU.

🐾 Adoption fees are just $10 through October 15
🐾 We’re open 12–6 PM (closed Sundays & Wednesdays)
🐾 Foster animals are INCLUDED in this special! Call 205-752-9101 to schedule a meet-up
🐾 View all adoptable pets at Metroanimalshelter.org/adopt

Whether you’re ready to meet your new best friend or just want to cheer on these happy endings, we’d love to see you today. Let’s keep the love flowing and the kennels empty! 💫

10/04/2025

🎉 Huge cheers to every adopter who’s stepped up during Bissell Pet Foundation’s Empty the Shelters event! Your love and commitment are changing lives—one wagging tail and purring heart at a time 💛

🐾 We’ve already seen incredible matches made, and we’re just getting started! Metro Animal Shelter is OPEN TODAY from 12–6 PM, ready to welcome even more heroes through our doors.

Let’s keep the magic going. Let’s keep the kennels empty. Let’s keep the love flowing.
Come adopt. Come save lives. Come be part of something beautiful.

10/03/2025

🎉 We kicked off Empty the Shelters with a bang—and we’re not slowing down! Thanks to our incredible community, so many pets found their forever homes this week. To every adopter: THANK YOU for opening your heart. 💛

🐾 Bissell’s continues TODAY with $10 adoptions on all adoptable animals! Whether you’re looking for a snuggly senior kitty or a playful pup, your new best friend is waiting.

📍Metro Animal Shelter
🕛 Open 12–6 (Closed Sundays & Wednesdays)
💌 Visit us today and change a life—for just $10!

Let’s keep the momentum going. Share, tag a friend, and help us EMPTY THE SHELTER! 🐶🐱

10/03/2025

From our foster page:

Do you remember Peaches and Paco? These bottle baby puppies have spent a few weeks in a foster home and are coming back to the shelter today! Their foster parent has kept them fed and happy, and now we need another home for them!

They are still being bottle fed, so if you are an experienced bottle baby foster please email me at

[email protected]
or call us during our open business hours 205-752-9101

10/02/2025

🚨 IT’S HERE! 🚨
Today kicks off BISSELL Pet Foundation’s Empty the Shelters event at Metro Animal Shelter — and that means $10 adoption fees for ALL available animals, including those in foster homes! 🐶🐱

Whether you’re ready to meet your new best friend or just want to walk through and say hello to future adoptables, we’d love to see you! 💛

📍 3140 Inv Dornell Cousette Street, Tuscaloosa
🕛 Open 12–6 (Closed Sundays & Wednesdays)
🔗 metroanimalshelter.org/adopt to preview available pets — but remember, in-person visits are the best way to meet them all!

This life-changing event runs through October 15th — let’s EMPTY THE SHELTERS and fill hearts and homes instead 💫