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NEWS AND EVENTS
WE ARE OFFICIALLY CLOSED. WE HOPE TO REOPEN OUR DOORS TO ANIMALS IN NEED AS SOON AS FINANCIALLY POSSIBLE. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY FOR THE PAST 11 YEARS.
It is with utter heartbreak that I must make this announcment: We are closing our doors. Due to the current financial crisis, low adoptions, absent donations, and the pending forclosure on our kennels, we must say goodbye. It is a terrible blow, and a great loss to the rescue community. I hope to rebuild, as soon as possible, and get back to taking dogs out of kill shelters ASAP, but for now, we must shut down. All animals on our kennel property need to find homes ASAP. For this reason, we are offering puppies at an adoption rate of $75, adults at $50, and seniors at no adoption cost. We are still in desperate need of donations to help cover some of our very extensive vet bills. In fact, we are over $3000 in debt. You can donate through paypal to care2Adopt@aol.com or through the donate buttons found on our websites. Thank you all for your support and help. We look forward to the day when we are able to support our community once again through our rescue efforts. God bless.
PET OF THE MONTH
SHILO
Shilo is a beautiful and very sweet shepherd mix. She is approx 7 years old. Shilo is VERY good in the house- she is the perfect house dog or apartment dog. She is perfectly housetrained and just wants to lay on the side of the bed or at your feet and keep you company. She is shy at first, but very quickly makes friends and bonds tightly to her family. Once she comes out of her shell she is the most amazing and loving girl! She will curl up in a little snuggly ball at your feet all day. She is very loving and her tail wags in a big whirly bird pattern when she sees you. Shiloh recently had HW treatment (July) and is now HW free and full of life! She would make an excellent dog for a single woman, or an older couple. She walks very polietly on leash and loves car rides. She has many good years left! Please give an older girl a chance!
Please donate, no amount is too small!
Who We Are
C.A.R.E is a rescue group dedicated to the placement of unique animals in desperate need of homes. We specialize in death row dogs, dogs that otherwise would not have a chance. We try to pull 2-3 a week from high kill shelters in the charlotte/gastonia area. We do not accept owner surrendors, and we do not normally deal in cats. We do accept owner surrendered ferrets, exotics, birds and reptiles. We are licensed for large animal exotics, but do not always have the room.
Adopting a friend--Process
The process of adopting a life-long companion from us is very simple. Once you see an animal you are interested in, please fill out an adoption application at www.adoptcarolina.com. You will find it under "forms". Mail the application to Shawn@adoptcarolina.com. Someone will get back to you within 48 hours to let you know if you are approved and if the dog is still available. If so, we can set up an appointment to come and meet your new friend!
Adopting a friend: Fees
**An important note about adoption fees**
Rescue is never ending, back breaking, heartwrenching and sleepless work. Typically our "central shelter" (A private home) holds 15-25 dogs, 10-15 birds, 5-10 ferrets, and a number of other smaller animals. There are two full time volunteers who live at the shelter and care for the animals 24/7. These two volunteers also have full time jobs and families. Daily duties include walking, playing with animals, cleaning, doing laundry, giving medications and baths, running animals to the vet, doing paperwork, buying food/toys/medication, etc. Usually, this is a 2-3 hour process that occurs 3-4 times a day, with the help of other volunteers. We go through 100-150 LBS of dog food a week, 20 LBS of bird food, rat, ferret, cat and other such food. Pounds of towels, newspapers, paper towels, cleaners, mops, brooms, trashbags, toys, water and food bowls. Every month we administer Heartguard plus and frontline plus to *every* animal in the shelter, including animals as small as rats and ferrets, as well as deworm all dogs and cats. We are constantly scouring classifieds adds for inexpensive caging and supplies.
Every animal that we take from animal control is ill in one way or another. I have never, in 10 years, taken a healthy animal from AC. If we are lucky, it is kennel cough and worms, relatively easy to treat. Unlucky, and its heartworms, parvo, distemper, camphy, giardia, coccidia, mange, or any combination of the above. On several occasion.. we've gotten a dog with every one of those. The cheapest- kennel cough and worms, tends to run about $55 in medications. The most expensive, Heartworms and Parvo, tend to be about $500 each. On multiple occasions, we have taken on special needs dogs that have required many surgeries or on going therapy, resulting in thousands of dollars spent. Dogs that have been shot, have broken bones, seriously injured and ill dogs.
For every dog and puppy that goes up for adoption, please understand that there are some that did not make it, that we were unable to save, but still spent precious resources on. Please understand the thousands we spend on animals every month, that we will never be able to recover. Our adoption fees do not go over $200 for dogs- but we have been known to spend $4500 on a single animal.
I can not tell you how many emails I get from people who say things like "I want to adopt a dog, but I cant afford your adoption fees, why cant you just give the animal away?" or "I can offer you half of your asking fee". We get emails asking why rescue groups charge $200 or so for their animals, while animal controls charge as low as $50. We have gotten extremely insulting emails insuinating that all rescue groups take free animals and sell them for a profit. I have a few things that I would like to say regarding these statements.
First, If you can not afford a $200 adoption fee, you can not afford a dog. What happens if your dog eats a toy and gets blocked and requires emergancy surgery to the tune of $2000? Second, please, please do not insult us by saying our fees are too high. To someone who spends every minute of every day doing nothing but working with these animals, staying up nights trying to nurse dying animals along, disregarding vacations and any personal needs, there can be nothing more insulting then to challange motives. Yes, there have been individuals posing as rescue groups who have done all rescuers a disservice by selling animals they recieved for free, and doing no vet work. However, all responsible rescue groups have all vet paperwork and can provide proof and records to verify these claims. But do not make blanket claims.
As for the difference between animal control and animal rescue groups, please, please by all means, adopt from animal control. It saves us the trouble of spending gutwrenching hours trying to find the resources and foster homes available to get them out of their cell before they are shoved into a gas chamber. But just remember... the only difference between the dogs WE get, and the dogs YOU get, is we dont pay the $50 adoption fee. Thats right- the dogs we get that have giardia, coccida, parvo, worms, heartworms, kennel cough, mange... etc etc.. the dogs we spend up to $5000 on? Those are the same dogs. For $150 more, you are getting an animal that has had EVERYTHING done, and all of those illnesses treated.
Adoption fees include the following:
DOGS:
Heartworm test
Deworming
All age appropriate vaccines
Spay/Neuter
Microchip
Heartworm preventative and flea control every month
Treatment for various illnesses associated with intake, such as kennel cough, distemper, parvo, heartworms, mange and any other problems presented.
FERRETS:
Rabies, Distemper vaccines
HW and Flea prevention
ADV Test
BIRDS:
Complete blood work including psiticossis and PBFD test and DNA sexing
Etc.
There is no such thing as a free animal. If you were to answer a "Free to good home" add and recieve a free puppy, naturally your next step would be the vets. Your first vet visit would include vaccines, a fecal, deworming, examination, HW/Flea control and lets say, microchipping. It would also include any medication needed for possible illnesses. Lets say the puppy is perfectly healthy and only requires basic medications. That vet visit would still cost you between $100-$200. That does not include neutering/spaying. Lets say the puppy was discovered with parvo. Congratulations, you just spent anywhere from $400-$1000.
I hope this has opened some eyes regarding adoption fees from reputable rescues, and allow you to understand what we really go through. If you still think that animal rescue groups should not charge adoption fees, or should charge very low fees, please, volunteer with a group for just 2 weeks. I guarenteet you will change your mind.
OUR ADOPTION FEES
Normally our fees for dogs are:
** $200 for puppies under 6 months and small breed dogs of all ages
** $150 for large breed puppies 6 months-2 years
** $100 for large breed adults over 2
** $50 for the Featured Pet of the month
** Occasionally seniors or special needs are FREE to qualified homes.
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Ferrets are
** $75 for singles,
** $100 for pairs and
** $200 for trios/quads.
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Birds range between
--FINCHES and PARAKEETS are BY DONATION BASE, they are free to approved homes, but we will accept any donation made for them--
$40 for small birds (Lovebirds, Tiels, doves, flocks)
$150 medium birds (Quakers, Conures) and
$400-800 for large parrots (Amazons, Cockatoos, Greys, Macaws, etc)
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Small animals are as followed:
Rats, Hamsters, Mice, guinea pigs, rabbits
$10 or donation based.
Situations vary, please always ask.
Where we are located
We are in Cramerton, NC, which is near Gastonia, but our foster homes stretch across NC, TN and SC. We do adopt out of state.
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