Copiah Animal Shelter Recent News
See more frequent news/updates on the CAS Facebook and Instagram pages:
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12/2020: In 2020, Copiah Animal Shelter sheltered, cared for, and found homes for 388 unwanted and homeless animals. Not in that count are more animals CAS was able to help like lost/found pets that didn't come into the Shelter and connecting people to others resources. Despite the strange year with Covid-19 Pandemic barriers this is the highest annual number of animals our small volunteer-led shelter in our small town rural area has been able to help. Thank you seems so inadequate to all the people involved in helping animals! Many, many thanks and recognition go to Copiah Animal Shelter manager and workers, veterinary clinic staff, volunteers, donors, foster homes, adoption rescue partners, transporters, supporters, etc. It takes a lot of people effort to make such a positive impact on abandoned and hurting animals. Or animals that needed a new family when they lost their longtime owner to illness. And while "numbers" are nice to know, as a limited-intake Shelter, CAS goals include quality over quantity. CAS animals are vet checked and treated - a long list like proper nutrition, spay/neuter, vaccinations, expensive and lengthy heartworm treatments/preventives, flea/tick/parasite treatment preventives, lots of skin conditions . . . broken leg surgeries, several bullet removal surgeries!
Let's make 2021 another great year helping animals and people!
See some of the animals Copiah Animal Shelter helped in 2020:
12/2020: Copiah Animal Shelter is very grateful to have received an $850 Emergency Medical Grant from the Petfinder Foundation for puppy Vanna's broken leg surgery. Petfinder Foundation
See Vanna's story: https://petfinderfoundation.com/grant_report/ms156-2/
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10/2020: October Adoptions Total: 30. 27 dogs and 3 cats. Through October, Copiah Animal Shelter has sheltered and cared for more than 285 local area animals! We've also helped rehome pets and helped reunite lost/found pets with owners without the animals coming into the Shelter.
9/2020: September Adoptions Total: 36. 29 dogs and 7 cats.
Congratulations to The Copiah Animal Shelter 2020 TOMATO POOCH VIRTUAL PAGEANT WINNER -- NUGGET! See the Tomato Pooch Page for photos of all the Contestants and Category Winners! Thank you to all who entered their adorable pets!
https://copiahanimalshelter.net/tomato-pooch
Congratulations to Crystal Springs 2020 Tomato Festival Queen Anna Roberson!
8/3 through 9/12/ 2020: Show off your amazing dogs and help raise funds for Copiah Animal Shelter by entering the 2020 TOMATO POOCH VIRTUAL PAGEANT!
https://copiahanimalshelter.net/tomato-pooch
7/2020: In June 2020 Copiah Animal Shelter placed 43 local area homeless pets with loving families (26 dogs and 17 cats)!! Year-to-date CAS has cared for and adopted-out 163 local animals who needed help and homes. Please continue to support Copiah Animal Shelter's work helping animals and donate!
THANK YOU !! https://copiahanimalshelter.net/donate
Copiah Animal Shelter applied for and was awarded $1,200 in grant funds for spay/neuter of Shelter dogs from Athletes for Animals! Thank you, A4A for all that you do to help animals! For more information: https://athletesforanimals.org/
5/2020: The 10th Annual Copiah Animal Shelter in-person GALA Fundraiser, originally scheduled for August 8, 2020, has been cancelled due to Covid 19 Virus restrictions and precautions and the impact to local businesses and people. Stay tuned for future fundraiser updates! We depend on the GALA, our primary fundraiser of the year, to help CAS continue to shelter and care for local homeless animals. Please continue to DONATE to help the animals at CAS now, if you can. Stay well, everyone!
5/2020: Copiah Animal Shelter applied for and was awarded $3,000 in grant funds for spay/neuter of Shelter animals through the "I Care for Animals" Car Tag Program administered by the Mississippi Board of Animal Health! You can help Mississippi shelters and humane organizations by purchasing these specialty car tags at your local county courthouse. For more Car Tag info: http://www.mbah.state.ms.us/car_tag_program/index.html
12/2019: Donors and volunteers provided Copiah Animal Shelter the ability to save the lives of 340 local area homeless animals in 2019! With the help of guaranteed home northern rescue partners for an additional ADOPTION channel, new in 2019, our small Shelter and several foster homes helped double the number of animals compared to 2018 at 160 animals. 2017: 179 animals. Copiah Animal Shelter animals are vet-checked and treated, vaccinated, spayed/neutered, provided flea/tick/heartworm preventatives, etc. as part of our adoption preparation. See some of the animals helped on the 2019 Review page!