Program areas at Charleston Animal Society
No kill charlestonin 2013, Charleston Animal Society built the first community in the southeast where every healthy and treatable dog and cat has a home. We call it a no kill community. This project is intended to continually save all healthy and treatable dogs and cats in Charleston county through 3 impact areas: (1) eradicating unnecessary euthanasia of companion animals, (2) eliminating overpopulation of companion animals, and (3) preventing Animal cruelty. Over 15,000 animals benefit from 15 strategies including (a) finding homes for homeless animals through 4,841 adoptions, (b) containing outbreaks of deadly diseases through 28,726 vaccinations, (c) sheltered unwanted and stray animals through 103,936 days of care, (d) preventing the births of unplanned litters through 11,673 spay/neuter sterilizations, (e) fostering the most at-risk animals through 65,456 round-the-clock days of in-home Animal care & rehabilitation, (f) providing permanent refuge for threatened community cats through 52,542 days of sanctuary care, (g) growing children into humanitarians through 23,318 compassion education lessons, and (h) preventing/responding to Animal cruelty through 72 cruelty-assisted law enforcement cases, and (i) helping families care for their pets through a cadre of assistance and 497 months of critical pet food.
No kill south carolinain 2016, this project was launched to build the first no kill state in the southern united states, from atlantic to pacific oceans, and most of america's heartland, to create a place where every dog and cat has a home this project is intended to save healthy and treatable animals throughout south carolina as measured by achieving a 10% or less euthanasia rate across sc's 46 counties. Since its inception, 780,000 lives have been saved in sc's Animal shelters. In 2023, this statewide initiative (1) organized the largest annual statewide dog and cat adoption event in the country resulting in 2,030 adoptions, various (2) emergency shelter transports that moved 437 animals pulled from 9 sc counties, (3) shelter health consultations, and (4) assistance with large cruelty law enforcement operations, all of which resulted in a statewide canine euthanasia rate of 17% and feline euthanasia rate of 10%.