 SHELTER HOURS
HOURS OF OPERATION General T Adoption Hours Monday: Closed to the public
Tuesday through Friday: 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (summer)
Business Hours The Shelter is open for all other animal-related services (that is, except adoption) during the following hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., seven days a week.
          
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Dog Licenses available at Animal Control on Kirksey Drive below Friends For Animals Adoption Center / Shelter. $4 and proof of rabies vaccination (the number) is the only thing required. Annual pet tax: (pay to Sheriff's Dept / Animal Control) $10 for fertile pet and $4 for spayed or neutered. Five or more dogs in a kennel (confined in an enclosure) are $5 each for the first five ($25) and $1 each additional. | shelter, humane, dogs, cats, animals, pets, pet adoption, Burke County, Morganton, dog pound, animal welfare Animal Ordinances Home About Us Director's News Cruelty Investigator How You Can Help Upcoming Events Calendar In Memory Hope Fund Lost A Pet/ Found A Pet Cell Dogs (trained dogs) Adoptable Cats Adoptable Dogs Message Board Animal Control Animal Control Shelter 2010 Board Of Directors Driving Directions Shelia Cloud (Foster Parent Coordinator) (Foster Parent Application Form) Dee Schaller ( Volunteer Coordinator) (Volunteer Application Form) Joan Murley (Membership) (Membership Form) BCFFA Humane Society Employment Application Bylaws Crime Stoppers Judy Cosmo (Receipts) Local Veterinarian Care facebook.....Contact Us
ABOUT US - OUR HISTORY
Despite all those things that separate us socially as people, our love of animals brings us all together as one. Friends For Animals The Humane Society of Burke County Shelia Cloud (Foster Parent Co-ordinator) (Foster Parent Application Form) Dee Schaller ( Volunteer Co-ordinator) Canine Adoption Questionaire Form Feline Adoption Questionaire Form BCFFA Humane Society Employment Application (print out, fill out, sign and mail to: ~John Churton Collins Committee Listings 2010 Executive Committee ** David Campbell (President), Gresham Orrison (Vice President), Dee Schaller (Secretary), Joan Murley (Treasurer) Personnel Committee Debbie Hawkins, Judy Stubbs, David Campbell, Joan Murley Finance Committee ** Joan Murley (Treasurer), Jan Billings, Toni Davis Bylaws Committee ** Debbie Hawkins, Shelia Carlisle, Robert McClure, Maureen Johnson Policies and Procedures Committee Debbie Hawkins, Judy Stubbs, Markus Hueber, Toni Davis, Alan Keller, Robert McClure, Sharon Coley Fundraising Committee Dee Schaller, Markus Hueber, Toni Davis, Joan Murley Grant Writing Committee Katherine Lee, Jennifer Reece, Teddi Stamey, Shelia Carlisle, Lis Hueber, Sandy Nutbrown Public Relations Committee Katherine Lee, Markus Hueber, Angie Mull, Samantha Hallman, Gwen Maples, Sylvia Milne, Diana Burns, Shelia Carlisle, Judy Stubbs Sharon Coley, Theresa Thomas, Renee Mitchell, Sherri Ross, Lis Hueber, and Kandi Estevane.
**Indicates committees specified and regulated by the Bylaws Names in bold are members of the Board of Directors
Toni Davis, Director (hardest working woman in animal welfare for Burke County)
Burke County Friends for Animals actually began in the backyard of its founders, Toni and Ed Davis. Developing into a local grassroots organization of concerned citizens that shared the dream of establishing a facility that would find homes for the many abandoned and homeless dogs and cats wandering throughout the county, the organization was incorporated in March of 1997.
Edward Davis, 59, of Pete Brittain Road, Morganton, passed away Monday, Feb. 16, 2009, at Frye Regional Medical Center in Hickory. See the IN MEMORY web page for details of Ed's memorial service.
Throughout its inception and prevalent today, Toni and Ed Davis had two goals in mind when they began their efforts: 1) to establish a shelter that would save the lives of adoptable animals by providing care, housing and placement services for the homeless, neglected or abused animals of Burke County, and 2) to provide humane education to the residents of Burke County, particularly the importance of spaying and neutering to decrease the population of unwanted animals. After much planning and hard work by many dedicated volunteers and generous benefactors, the Adoption Center, appropriately named Friends for Animals, became a reality in November of 2003.
Over ten thousand animals have been adopted through Friends for Animals since 1997 and the organization has provided homes to a steady stream of animals that have been saved from lethal injection. Adoption numbers continue to grow.
1200 lives saved and adopted to forever homes in 2009!
The Adoption Center management team works closely with Burke County Animal Control to save as many animals the shelter can safely and adequately hold and to investigate matters of animal cruelty.
Buster’s Bus (above) was donated by the Bush Foundation and is used to transport animals from the Burke County Animal Control building to the Adoption Center where they are examined by a veterinarian, spayed or neutered prior to adoption and given needed vaccinations. The vehicle can also be seen parked in front of PetSmart or Petco on weekends where adoptions take place. Friends for Animals makes a lifetime commitment to each animal accepted into its care and no animal is euthanized except for health or safety reasons.
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The Maddie’s Fund keynote from No Kill Conference 2009 was based on a study by the Ad Council. It shows that 17 million people are going to bring a new pet into their home next year and have not decided where that animal will come from. They can be influenced to adopt from a shelter next year, where there are roughly 3,000,000 available animals.
According to the No Kill Advocacy Center, a shelter can be considered a “no kill” shelter when it saves approximately 91-95% of all animals taken in. “To put it bluntly: regardless of what claims shelters make, No Kill can only be achieved when at least 90% of all animals impounded (regardless of reason) are saved.
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