Pet Listings:

The Lawrence County Animal Shelter currently has the following pets available at the
shelter. For more information on them, call us at 606-673-4509. Theses pets are looking for a new home, with maybe you in mind. For a better view of the animals, the pictures are clickable.
Fees for Animals
All animals are ready to be adopted 5 days after arriving to the shelter.
 
Adoption Fees:
 
Dogs: $135.00 - Includes, spay/neuter fee, plus extra for a rabies vaccination for the dogs if of age.
Puppies: $135.00 - Includes, Same as dogs, plus extra for a rabies vaccination for the dogs if of age.
 
Cats

Cats/kittens: $75.00 - Includes spay/neuter, post-op pain shot, de-worming, vaccinations, flea preventive meds, and rabies vaccination. (3 months old & older)

Intake Fees :

Dogs

Nursing to 3 Months   $10.00
3 to 6 Months           $20.00
Over 6 Months          $50.00 

Intake Fees:

Cats

Nursing to 3 Months   $10.00
3 to 6 Months           $20.00
Over 6 Months          $30.00
 

We are no longer limited to taking animals from Lawrence County residents. 
We will take animals from anyone as long as we have available space.

The Open Arms Animal Shelter now has an on-line “Adoption Application” which can be found at the following link https://forms.gle/EorXARSG8RrNKTi59

(Please allow about 60 Seconds, for the pages to load, if you are on a dial-up connection..)
New Pictures of this week animal will be added to the site later this evening, please check back for photos.

All dogs listed below are now gone to a Rescue Partner with the EXCEPT of ELLIE. They are still here.
 

 Cats and Kitten
 

				Card #24C-023 Name: Callie Female, SH, Calico; VERY SWEET & LOVING	Card #24C-045 Name: Selina Female, LH, Calico; A LITTLE SHY, BUT SWEET
Card #24C-018 Name: Sunday Female, SH, Dilute Calico; SHY BUT LOVES TO BE PETTED	Card #24C-008 Name: Morticia Female, SH, Black; VERY OUTGOING & TALKATIVE	Card #24C-022 Name: Eternity Female, SH, Black; RESERVED & SHY	Card #22C-144 Name: Furrgie Female, SH, Torty; SWEET, LOVES PETTING	Card #23C-126 Name: Charity Female, SH, Blk/Wht; LOVING & LAP CAT	Card #23C-132 Name: Tom Male, SH, Wht/gray; SPECIAL NEEDS—HAS “PILLOW PAW”

WAITING DOG - Author Unknown

 A dog sits waiting in the cold sun
Too faithful to leave, too frightened to run
She's been there for days now with nothing to do
But sit by the road waiting for you.
She can't understand why you left her that day.
She thought she and you were stopping to play.
She's sure you'll come back and that's why she stays.
How long will she suffer? How many more days?
Her legs have grown weak. Her throat parched and dry.
She's sick from hunger and falls with a sigh.
She lays down her head and closes her eyes.
I wish you could see how a waiting dog dies.
 
Author Unknown

As animal shelter personnel, with various duties and responsibilities, we make the following promises and declarations:

We hereby promise to love and to care for the pets brought into this shelter to the best of our ability.
We promise to make them as comfortable as possible in an impossible situation.
We promise to do our best to find them new homes.
When all else fails, we promise to end their lives humanely in order to make room for the endless
supply of animals to follow.

However, we also stand firm with the following:
 
We did not cause these animals to be born into this overpopulated world.
We did not cause these animals to become a problem or inconvenience to their owners.
We did not cause their owners to move, to have kids, to become allergic too them, or to become ill.
We will not accept, nor allow to be placed on us, the guilt that belongs to the owners of these
pets!!!!
It is not our fault!!!!!