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Contact Us:
Phone:
(828) 433-1115
Fax:  828-438-8150

Email:
bcffa2@bellsouth.net

417 Kirksey Drive

PO Box 1884
Morganton, NC 28655


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.

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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.



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    HomeSweet Home

    About Us

    Director Toni's News

    Cruelty Investigator

    Hoe You Can Help

    Upcoming Events Calendar

    In Memory Of

    The HOPE Fund


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  • **PLEASE NOTE:  You do not have to be a member of PayPal to donate.   When you make a donation, you will be redirected to the Paypal site. If you are not a member of Paypal, just click on the "CONTINUE" button (left side of page) to donate via Credit/Debit Card without joining.  Your credit card information will NOT be retained on PayPal or this site.



Contact Us:
Phone:
(828) 433-1115
Fax:  828-438-8150

Email:
bcffa2@bellsouth.net

417 Kirksey Drive

PO Box 1884
Morganton, NC 28655




Protect your pet. ShelterCare Pet Insurance Programs 


 



HomeSweet Home

About Us

Director Toni's News

Cruelty Investigator

Hoe You Can Help

Upcoming Events Calendar

In Memory Of

The HOPE Fund






**PLEASE NOTE:  When you make a donation, you will be redirected to the Paypal site. If you are not a member of Paypal, just click on the "CONTINUE" button (left side of page) to donate via Credit/Debit Card without joining.  Your credit card information will NOT be retained on PayPal or this site.











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We need volunteers to do PetSmart IN HICKORY,NC (11AM TO 4PM) the middle two week-ends of each month!  CAN YOU HELP?..

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Friends For Animals

The Humane Society of Burke County

Phone:(828) 433-1115
Fax:  828-438-8150
Email: bcffa2@bellsouth.net
417 Kirksey Drive
PO Box 1884
Morganton, NC 28655

 

 

Shelia Cloud (Foster Parent Co-ordinator)

(Foster Parent Application Form)

 

Joan Murley (Membership)

(Membership Form)

 

Dee Schaller ( Volunteer Co-ordinator)

(Volunteer Application Form)

 

Canine Adoption Questionaire Form

Feline Adoption Questionaire Form

BCFFA Humane Society Employment Application  

(print out, fill out, sign and mail to:

PO Box 1884
Morganton, NC 28655

 

 

"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."

~John Churton Collins

 

 

We need volunteers to do PetSmart IN HICKORY,NC (11AM TO 4PM) the middle two week-ends of each month!  CAN YOU HELP?..... JAN. 12  6PM VOLUNTEER MEETING AT THE ADOPTION CENTER ON KIRKSEY DR......THURS. JANUARY 28 / Annual memberhip / volunteer appreciation dinner and nominations of new board of Directors. MEMBERS ONLY.

 

 

Toni Davis, Director

(hardest working woman in animal welfare for Burke County)

Toni Davis, Director


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Sylvia Milne
Gary (puppy King), Judy Stubbs
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Debbie Hawkins, Jennifer Reece



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.

 

Toni and Ed Davis (We love you !) 

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.

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 BCFFA staff Inside kennels with volunteers

BCFFA Dog Trail Outdoor dog trail

 

All animals are cared for in the adoption facility at 417 Kirksey Drive (between the National Guard Armory and the Burke County Animal Control office).  The facility has grown into the largest no-kill animal shelter in Western North Carolina.


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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. 

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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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2010 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

David Campbell - President
Gresham Orrison - Vice President
Dee Schaller - Secretary
Joan Murley - Treasurer
Sam Avery,  Debbie Hawkins, Markus Hueber, Kathereine Lee, Judy Stubbs

 

 

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Burke County Animal Control & Sheriff John McDevitt,  12 years of support of Friends For Animals Humane Society of Burke County award.

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North Carolina Alert
Ban Euthanasia Gas Chambers
Eliminate the gas chamber for the euthanasia of shelter animals.

 

Quick Links to Official Government Web sites

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Phone:
(828) 433-1115
Fax:  828-438-8150

Email:
bcffa2@bellsouth.net

417 Kirksey Drive

PO Box 1884
Morganton, NC 28655


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