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May 2024 by Cathy Heffner
For over 70 years, this small, no-kill shelter w/ it's friendly & helpful staff has helped homeless dogs & cats find their furever homes. They also hold 2 low-cost rabies clinics a year & offer coupons to help defray the cost of spay/neuter for local residents.
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May 2024 by Vince Thompson
Thank you for helping us find Miss Birdie!!!
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April 2024 by Me Me
I just adopted a sweet little girl (ChiChi)..Scarlet from Animal Welfare Society of Jefferson County. The manager Tammy and her staff were great at explaining the process. We did a meet and greet with my other dog Tucker and he just loves his new sister. Her shots were complete, she was spayed already, and she has a chip. She even came home with a new blanket, a bag full of toys, treats, and her clothes. The price of the adoption fee was well worth it. It was a great experience and I highly recommend this facility as the place to get your new pet.
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October 2023 by Julie L.
I want to give a shout out to Animal Welfare Society of Jefferson County where we adopted Cali. This a small shelter in WV that is clean, caring, and well-staffed. You can tell the manager and her volunteers truly love these animals and want them to go home with loving families. The shelter provides all vaccines, spay and neuter services, and a blanket and toys upon checkout. Truly great people!
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August 2023 by Carl Harrison
They make the adoption process easy. Nice facility - friendly staff.
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July 2023 by Tony Shawver
Nice clean place.. lots of animals to find homes for.. ? ?? a good ride from Pennsylvania but worth it.
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July 2023 by Kathy Tribby
They have never helped when i needed them.
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June 2023 by S
Excellent place. Animals not overcrowded and very well cared for.
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May 2023 by Marques Shoulars
I have to say this is one worst experiences in my life. I brought my family to the shelter to add a new fur baby. We found a great addition to add for our family. My family was so excited when we found Nutmeg but we were unable to bring her home. The shelter's policy was the need to do a home visit and because we had another dog they need to meet granted so we set up an appointment for next Saturday. As Saturday arrived we bought our dog to the shelter to meet Nutmeg. It seems stranger that their first meeting was through a fence. Anyone who is a dog owner knows that dogs are a lot braver when something is between them. Nevertheless, the dogs never show any signs of aggression but dogs have to show a sign of dominance. The shelter staff members appeared not to have a lot of training. They keep insisting that Nutmeg was afraid of my much older and bigger dog. That they were not a good match. Granted after a week of waiting my family was pretty sad we were unable to bring Nutmeg home with us. So my family decided to drive hour away to Loudoun County animal shelter where we got our first dog from. Staff was very knowledgeable about their animals, they had history on the dogs. Our dog miles meet two other dogs in a field with the shelter staff in Loudoun County. They help us find the perfect match for Miles and we were so happy to bring Milo home the same day. I am not sure about. This shelter their purpose should be to find homes for these dogs. I been following a lot the shelters website for months and a lot these West Virginia shelters the animals have been there for a long time. Which is not good environment for dogs or any animal to be cage for long period of time. It makes it harder for them to go back in to being domesticated. Final thoughts avoid this place they get your hopes for nothing.Say hi to Miles and Milo
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May 2023 by Marques S.
I have to say this is one worst experiences in my life. I brought my family to the shelter to add a new fur baby. We found a great addition to add for our family. My family was so excited when we found Nutmeg but we were unable to bring her home. The shelter's policy was the need to do a home visit and because we had another dog they need to meet granted so we set up an appointment for next Saturday. As Saturday arrived we bought our dog to the shelter to meet Nutmeg. It seems stranger that their first meeting was through a fence. Anyone who is a dog owner knows that dogs are a lot braver when something is between them. Nevertheless, the dogs never show any signs of aggression but dogs have to show a sign of dominance. The shelter staff members appeared not to have a lot of training. They keep insisting that Nutmeg was afraid of my much older and bigger dog. That they were not a good match. Granted after a week of waiting my family was pretty sad we were unable to bring Nutmeg home with us. So my family decided to drive hour away to Loudoun County animal shelter where we got our first dog from. Staff was very knowledgeable about their animals, they had history on the dogs. Our dog miles meet two other dogs in a field with the shelter staff in Loudoun County. They help us find the perfect match for Miles and we were so happy to bring Milo home the same day. I am not sure about. This shelter their purpose should be to find homes for these dogs. I been following a lot the shelters website for months and a lot these West Virginia shelters the animals have been there for a long time. Which is not good environment for dogs or any animal to be cage for long period of time. It makes it harder for them to go back in to being domesticated. Final thoughts avoid this place they get your hopes for nothing.Say hi to Miles and Milo
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March 2023 by Krystal Morton
They are a great group that take really good care of the animals until they reach their forever homes. I have adopted some cats from here and HIGHLY RECOMMEND this shelter.
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February 2023 by Maria Osbourne
I adopted my fur baby from here September 2021 and it was a great experience. You can tell the animals are very well taken care of and that the staff loves them all so much! Just now realizing I haven’t given a review but they definitely deserve 5 stars!
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January 2023 by Amber Cook
My boyfriend and son filled out the application to adopt a beautiful little kitty last Friday. We got a call yesterday that the application was approved and that we could pick her up tomorrow. We were so excited since we'd been waiting almost a week. Today we received a call saying that after looking at our application again and seeing that we'd allow the cat to go outside that our application has now been denied. When my boyfriend asked why that would prevent the adoption, all he was told is that it is against their policy. We live on a farm and would allow the kitty to go outside if she wanted to. We already have another kitten who is getting so much love. He sleeps in bed with our son every night. We wanted him to have another buddy to play with. Now, because we would have allowed the kitten from AWSJ to go outside occasionally, the kitten will sit in the shelter longer, instead of going to a loving home. Obviously this shelter does not have the best interest of the animals in mind.
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January 2023 by Wanda Franklin
They were amazing , would definitely go to them if I where to seek another animal .
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January 2023 by Glenn Bristow
We went to check on getting a puppy. There was a lot of nice ones, but not what my wife was looking for. The staff is very helpful & knowledgeable
