Our goal is to welcome every dog in need that is brought to us. We provide each dog with needed medical care and find them a loving family. For dogs who would not do well in a family environment, the shelter serves as their sanctuary, and they can live out their lives in comfort, knowing they will always be safe and well cared for.

While welcoming every dog that we can into our care, we are also working on strategies to reduce the number of dogs in need. Every dog that's brought to us is spayed or neutered prior to their adoption. With our team of staff and volunteers, we provide daily care and enrichment for each of the nearly 300 dogs that are in our care at a time. We have grown our marketing efforts to attract new adopters to the shelter and inform the local community about shelter news and ways they can help. Because we have more dogs in need than adopters visiting the shelter, we've built relationships with a number of rescue groups. On a weekly basis, we drive dogs to less crowded rescue groups to ensure they find loving homes quickly.

We have a sponsorship that funds the spay and neuter of every dog in our care. We also have relationships with rescue groups as far away as Canada to help us find homes for the dogs in our care. We have a wonderful team of staff and volunteers to ensure every dog is well cared for. We've built our marketing efforts and regularly have articles about the shelter in the local newspaper, we've grown our email list, and we also have a large social media following.

We monitor the number of dogs we have spayed and neutered, the number of dogs that are surrendered to us, and how many dogs are adopted or transferred to less crowded shelters. We also monitor our marketing efforts - articles in the local newspaper, number of email and social media followers.

Over the last several years, our shelter has grown tremendously. The number of dogs we serve has grown exponentially every year. In 2001, we served 10 dogs in need. In 2019, we served 1,318. Last year, we built a new intake facility that also allows us to house pregnant and nursing dogs. We've built a number of relationships with other organizations who can take some of our surplus dogs. We've built our marketing efforts to reach supporters and local community members - which has allowed us to increase support and the number of dogs served. Our future goals include serving even more dogs in need and expanding amenities at the shelter to allow for sanctuary dogs who are not a candidate for adoption.