Friends of DeKalb County-AL Animal Adoption Center

24/11/2024

The shelter is closed to the public the week of Nov. 25-29 due to illness.

23/11/2024

🐾Today!!! Santa is at Tractor Supply Co. for Pet Portraits until 1 pm. 🎅🏼

23/11/2024

🐾Santa is coming to Tractor Supply Co. Sat. for Pet Portraits with Timber's Tale Photography! He will be there from 9 am - 1 pm!
🐾Check out the sweet pets pix in this post. They are in foster care for DCAAC and need pawsome homes too!
🐾 All donations for Santa Paws will be used for FODCAAC spay/neuter, foster, medical, community help, and shelter assistance programs.

22/11/2024

🐾Get your raffle tickets today for chance to win a $250 gift card to Tractor Supply! We will be drawing for this soon! Thank you Tractor Supply Co.
🎄All donations will be used for FODCAAC spay/neuter, foster, medical, community help and shelter assistance programs.

22/11/2024

🐾Many pawsome pets are available for adoption @ DCAAC! 🐾Be sure to join us for “Santa Paws Pet Potraits” Sat at Tractor Supply Co.! 🐾9 am to 1 pm CST.

🐾Check out all the photos in this post, because you just might find your furever best friend!

21/11/2024

🐾Contact or visit the shelter @ DCAAC soon if your pet is missing.

🐾Each STRAY brought in by an individual or ANIMAL CONTROL officer is HELD for a minimum of 7 days to give the owner a chance to claim them. The shelter staff does not release all information on strays to ensure they reunite with their true owner.

➡️PHONE: 256.304.0474

➡️SHELTER HOURS: Monday - Friday, 9 am - 4 pm

➡️SHELTER LOCATION:
Dekalb County-AL Animal Adoption Center
2601 Jordan Road SW
Fort Payne, AL 35968

🐾If you are interested in ADOPTING after the stray hold time is up, CALL the shelter ASAP to let them know of your interest & fill out an adoption application. If you are approved to adopt this stray at the end of the required hold time, adoption fees will apply which cover the cost spay/neuter surgery & rabies vaccination.

▶️APPLICATION LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOA6TyZx8xlVwaUGUIcAJlZ38YSeoHkncixHCJ9a4FZSsppA/viewform

***PLEASE NOTE: The shelter staff at DCAAC are the only ones who can assist you with the stray animals in their care. This FB page belongs to “Friends of DCAAC”, a volunteer organization that helps the Dekalb shelter (DCAAC) pets find a home and other helps for the shelter staff & community pet owners.

20/11/2024

🐾Please read the caption.

🐾Dekalb citizens, let’s make it our goal to lower the high shelter intake numbers @ DCAAC in 2024! Please read this entire post to find out how you can help today!
🐾These are the shelter numbers for the Dekalb County-AL Animal Adoption Center (DCAAC) in Fort Payne, AL. This municipal shelter has 44 dog kennels and a small cat room which is usually enough space to house the stray animals that are brought in by individuals or animal control for this county. However, this shelter does not have enough space for the large amount of owner surrenders who are released to DCAAC every single month. Due to the high number of unaltered pets in Dekalb county too many puppies and kittens have no place to go.

🐾As volunteers of “Friends of DCAAC,” we post these numbers with DCAAC’s permission in hopes that the reality of this situation will move our DeKalb County residents and community leaders to do what is necessary to lower these high intake numbers. Just like you, we want ALL the shelter pets to be adopted, fostered, and/or rescued, to live out their days fully in a wonderful home.
🐾We are so very grateful to the rescue groups and no kill shelters that have stepped up and helped thousands of Dekalb pets find homes in the past. We are also thankful to the families who have adopted & fostered from the shelter as well. We must, as a county, unite together for the good of our pets so that these high intake numbers can change for the better fur-ever!!!

🐾So how can you, as a resident of Dekalb County, HELP LOWER the high shelter intake numbers moving forward?
*First and most important – get your pets fixed (SPAY/NEUTER). The benefits for your pet, you as a pet owner, and the overcrowded pet situation in Dekalb far outweigh the cost. There are reduced options (paid for by grants, individuals, fundraising, etc) if you need financial assistance to get your pet fixed. You can help out also by fixing the stray pet that has been hanging around your house or help a friend by gifting a spay/neuter for their pet.
*Share these numbers and encourage your family and friends to also spay/neuter their pets.
*Your pets are counting on you to keep them! Having a wonderful pet takes time, patience, proper training, and money. Invest in your pet, they will love you for it.
*Adopt a shelter pet. So many wonderful shelter pets are just waiting for a new family to call their own.
*Foster a shelter pet. This opens kennel space at the shelter and enables rescues the ability to save more of our shelter pets.
*Please do all that you can to find a new home for your pet if you need to rehome it.
*Keep up with & like this page on Facebook. Consistently share the shelter strays and adoptable pets we post. Your post might save their life!
🐾Together, we can help make a difference for our fur friends in Dekalb! Thank you for reading and sharing this post. You can make a positive impact for our Dekalb County pets. They are counting on us!

20/11/2024

🐾Go by Pet Supply Plus in Fort Payne & get in on the fun and help the shelter pets @ DCAAC!🎉

15/11/2024

🐾Get in on our raffle drawing fundraiser early at the following link.

https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=NRE74S42K7T64

🐾You can buy raffle tickets in oerson at Fort Payne’s Tractor Supply Co. @ Santa Paws Pet Portraits on Sat, Nov. 23, 9 am - 1 pm CST.

🎉A big shout out to Tractor Supply for their generosity and care for the pets in Dekalb County!

15/11/2024

🐾ADOPT a shelter cat! Contact DCAAC for questions & availability if you are interested.

▶️APPLICATION LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOA6TyZx8xlVwaUGUIcAJlZ38YSeoHkncixHCJ9a4FZSsppA/viewform

🐾Visit the shelter to meet the adoptable pets. When arriving at the shelter please call before entering the facility.

▶️DCAAC PHONE #: 256.304.0474

▶️OPEN HOURS: 9 am-4 pm Mon-Fri

▶️SHELTER LOCATION:
Dekalb County Animal Adoption Center
2601 Jordan Road SW
Fort Payne, AL 35968

▶️More ADOPTION INFO: If your adoption application for this pet is approved, note that normal adoption fees are 80 dollars. This fee includes the cost of spay/neuter surgery & rabies vaccination. *Please consider that this fee does NOT include additional important vaccinations and vetting your adopted pet will need. As a good pet owner, SOON after adopting a shelter pet it will be important for your new fur friend to receive a proper veterinarian examination. This will insure your pet has the best care & vaccines needed for a great start with you.

*This is a courtesy post for our local animal shelter. The DCAAC staff does not run a page due to time restrictions. We are a volunteer organization called “Friends of DCAAC”, part of our purpose is to help the Dekalb shelter (DCAAC) pets find homes, and to extend a helpful hand to the shelter staff. We post all the information we know about each pet. If you need to know more info or would like to adopt this pet, please call or visit the shelter so their staff can better assist you.

14/11/2024

🐾Items needed donated @ DCAAC. Drop off M-F 9 am - 4 pm.

14/11/2024

🐾Yes! Let’s do it Dekalb!

Spaying and neutering IS taking “good care” of your pet, include it.

14/11/2024

🎉RESCUED, no longer available through DCAAC

🐾These adorable pups are in foster care for DCAAC. If you are interested in adoption please fill out the following adoption application.

▶️APPLICATION LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOA6TyZx8xlVwaUGUIcAJlZ38YSeoHkncixHCJ9a4FZSsppA/viewform

14/11/2024

➡️Sh*tzu adopted 🐾Contact or visit the shelter @ DCAAC soon if your pet is missing.

🐾Each STRAY brought in by an individual or ANIMAL CONTROL officer is HELD for a minimum of 7 days to give the owner a chance to claim them. The shelter staff does not release all information on strays to ensure they reunite with their true owner.

➡️PHONE: 256.304.0474

➡️SHELTER HOURS: Monday - Friday, 9 am - 4 pm

➡️SHELTER LOCATION:
Dekalb County-AL Animal Adoption Center
2601 Jordan Road SW
Fort Payne, AL 35968

🐾If you are interested in ADOPTING after the stray hold time is up, CALL the shelter ASAP to let them know of your interest & fill out an adoption application. If you are approved to adopt this stray at the end of the required hold time, adoption fees will apply which cover the cost spay/neuter surgery & rabies vaccination.

▶️APPLICATION LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOA6TyZx8xlVwaUGUIcAJlZ38YSeoHkncixHCJ9a4FZSsppA/viewform

***PLEASE NOTE: The shelter staff at DCAAC are the only ones who can assist you with the stray animals in their care. This FB page belongs to “Friends of DCAAC”, a volunteer organization that helps the Dekalb shelter (DCAAC) pets find a home and other helps for the shelter staff & community pet owners.

13/11/2024

🐾Adopt & save a shelter cat! These lovely cats can’t wait to love on a new family to call their own!

▶️APPLICATION LINK: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfOA6TyZx8xlVwaUGUIcAJlZ38YSeoHkncixHCJ9a4FZSsppA/viewform

🐾Visit the shelter to meet the adoptable pets. When arriving at the shelter please call before entering the facility.

▶️DCAAC PHONE #: 256.304.0474

▶️OPEN HOURS: 9 am-4 pm Mon-Fri

▶️SHELTER LOCATION:
Dekalb County Animal Adoption Center
2601 Jordan Road SW
Fort Payne, AL 35968

09/11/2024

We just want to update you all on what we have been doing! We recently made a $900 payment to McMinn Regional Humane Society for more shelter pets to be spayed and neutered so they can be rescued/adopted, we got an update on Lunah who was attacked by another dog and surrendered by her owner, but is now ready to head north to be adopted (we paid $945 out of the medical fund for her vet expenses), we have spent $2,610 helping to spay and neuter 21 dogs and 41 cats this year out of our owner reimbursement spay/neuter program and we have spent $1,727 on supplies for foster animals. Every donation helps! Just look at Lunah! If you are able, please donate to any one of our funds using the dropdown menu on our Paypal donation form. Thank you for your continued support! 🐾🐾 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=WQ27JS2TQTWQ2&source=qr

08/11/2024

Call DCAAC if you are missing your pet.