Humane Society of Alamance County

08/28/2026

Friends,

Remember earlier this year, when we worked for six weeks to help trap Bowser, an escaped shelter dog in Elon, on behalf of Burlington Animal Services? Well, while we spent time trying to rescue that stubborn pup and freezing our toe beans off as a result of the crazy snow and ice storms Mother Nature gifted us, we came across an entire feral cat colony on the property that needed our help as well! Our team worked hard to TNR all of the cats there and actually found indoor homes for a couple of the friendly babies that were out there.

The first cat we brought to safety was Marshmallow! We placed her in one of our foster homes while we provided her with much needed medical care and gave her time to acclimate to living indoors. She is now ready to find a forever family!

So, please, without further ado...

MARSHMALLOW!

Meet Marshmallow (aka Mushi)!

Looking for a quiet companion to share your days with? Meet Marshmallow! Better known as Mushi due to her squishy hamster-like face, she is approximated to be 3-4 years old and is the cutest girl you'll ever meet!

Marshmallow had a difficult start to life. She has severely impaired vision that was likely caused as a result of a congenital eye condition or an untreated upper respiratory infection before she was rescued. She also has an adorable, crinkled ear from a hematoma she suffered before she was trapped and brought to safety. Those little imperfections are just part of what makes her uniquely beautiful.

Despite everything she's been through, Mushi is incredibly sweet. She loves being around her people and is happiest simply sharing the same space. She's not a cuddly lap cat, at least not yet. Due to her poor eyesight, touch can make her nervous, so she prefers affection on her terms. We believe she'll continue to build confidence once she's in a home where she can spend more time with her family.

When she's relaxing, you'll often find her watching TV (her favorite show is Bear in the Big Blue House), lounging nearby while you go about your day, or tossing around her favorite catnip toy. Her eyesight certainly doesn't stop her from having fun!

Mushi's perfect home would be:
· A quiet home with no children.
· A home where she can be the only pet, as sudden movements from other animals can be scary for her.
· Someone who understands that trust is earned and is willing to let Mushi blossom at her own pace.

Mushi may not be the cat who greets every stranger with head bumps, but, for the right person, she'll be an incredibly rewarding companion. She deserves someone who sees beyond her disabilities and appreciates the gentle, funny, and resilient little soul she is.

If you've been waiting for a cat who will quietly become your shadow and remind you that love doesn't always happen overnight, Mushi might just be your girl!



www.hsaconline.org/adopt.html

08/27/2026

"I don't always sit like this but, when I do, I sure look as incredibly handsome as I do when I sit every other way." - Fig

Friends, This boy with the looooong legs and the sweet face gives actual hugs...GREAT, BIG, GIANT, COMFORTING HUGS. He is cat AND dog friendly yet he hasn't been snatched up??? What is even going on here?!

www.hsaconline.org/adopt.html

08/27/2026

Happy International Dog Day!

Our little adoptables hope you all had a wonderful day celebrating your pups (as you do everyday)!

Sasha and Lexie, our bonded senior girls, are still available for adoption!

08/26/2026

COURTESY POST -
SIBLINGS IN NEED OF HOME ASAP

Friends,

We received the following request from a community member and we are hoping someone may have a place in their home and heart for these two babies. Their mom has posted them in cat groups and has reached out to vets and other rescues but has yet to find a place for them or get a response from shelters. If you are able to take them in or know of anyone that can help, please email us: [email protected].

Please note! These are INDOOR cats. Although they are not technically in our program, we intend to help their mom vet potential adopters therefore anyone interested in adopting them will have to provide veterinary and personal references.

"Good afternoon, I am reaching out because I'm looking for a safe sanctuary for my babies. I am originally from Colombia and after the earthquake, my family suffered loss and devastation. I have to move back urgently and I need to re home Arnold and Rollie, my two cats. I am aware that rescues are at capacity but I really need some help, if you could guide me or help in any way I would appreciate it. They are both 8 years old, brother and sister. Arnold had an enucleation of his left eye when he was 1 month old but he is just fine. Rollie is a sweet, kind gentle girl. Both are spayed and neutered and litter box trained. I don't want to take them to the shelter. I know they can find a loving home, taking them with me is impossible and as an immigrant I dont have any family here."

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08/25/2026

Of course we want animals leaving shelters alive.

But “alive” should be the 𝙗𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 of the standard not the entirety of it.

Instead of obsessing over whether a shelter has a “no-kill” label, we need to ask the question that actually matters:

What are we, as a community, doing to stop creating more animals than our community can responsibly care for?

𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 “𝗻𝗼-𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹” 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰.

𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻.
𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲.
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗿.

We can keep arguing over which shelter has the prettier percentage.

👏🏼OR we can spay and neuter our animals, support affordable access to those services, foster, adopt responsibly, stop dumping animals and start addressing the problem before an animal ever reaches a shelter door.

That may not fit neatly on a bumper sticker.
But it would save a hell of a lot more lives.

WE’RE CALLING THE “NO-KILL” MOVEMENT’S BLUFF.

We cannot tell you how many messages we get that say:

💬 “𝘿𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙖 𝙣𝙤-𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙩𝙚𝙧?”
💬“𝙄𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙣𝙤-𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙩𝙚𝙧?”
💬“𝙊𝙝 𝙢𝙮 𝙜𝙤𝙨𝙝, 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙚𝙪𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙚𝙙!”

Somewhere along the way, people started believing “no-kill” automatically means compassionate, while euthanasia automatically means cruel.

𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝗶𝘁’𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲.

A shelter can protect its “no-kill” status by limiting intake and saying no when it is full.

An open-admission shelter doesn’t have that luxury.

✅They get the sick cat.
✅The injured dog.
✅The unwanted litter.
✅The animal dumped at the door because somebody decided it was no longer convenient.

𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱.

That’s not an honest comparison.

❌And simply keeping an animal alive is not automatically humane.

𝗔𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲-𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲.

An animal can also leave alive and later be neglected, bred, chained, dumped, returned or passed from home to home.

None of that shows up in the shiny “no-kill” statistic.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴.

Now, let’s be very clear:
When a healthy, adoptable animal is euthanized simply because there is nowhere for it to go, that is heartbreaking.

It 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙪𝙨.

But our outrage needs to travel a little farther upstream.

That animal didn’t appear in an overcrowded shelter because shelter staff woke up one morning and decided they needed more animals to euthanize.

It got there because somewhere along the way:
❌Someone didn’t spay or neuter.
❌Someone allowed another litter to be born.
❌Someone dumped an animal.
❌Someone treated a living thing as disposable.

And collectively, we keep expecting shelters and rescues to somehow absorb an endless supply of animals without an endless supply of adopters, fosters, funding, kennel space and human beings to care for them.

The shelter didn’t create the crisis. It was left holding the consequences.

We work primarily with free-roaming cats and we volunteer closely enough with our local shelter to see what happens when prevention is ignored and the shelter is expected to clean up afterward.

‼️You cannot rescue your way out of unchecked breeding.

‼️You cannot adopt your way out of it.

‼️And 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗼 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿.

Of course we want animals leaving shelters alive.

But “alive” should be the 𝙗𝙚𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 of the standard not the entirety of it.

Instead of obsessing over whether a shelter has a “no-kill” label, we need to ask the question that actually matters:

What are we, as a community, doing to stop creating more animals than our community can responsibly care for?

𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 “𝗻𝗼-𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹” 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰.

𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻.
𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲.
𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗿.

We can keep arguing over which shelter has the prettier percentage.

👏🏼OR we can spay and neuter our animals, support affordable access to those services, foster, adopt responsibly, stop dumping animals and start addressing the problem before an animal ever reaches a shelter door.

That may not fit neatly on a bumper sticker.
But it would save a hell of a lot more lives.

‼️Attention: We appreciate our work being shared! 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞. 𝐈𝐟 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐠 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞.

08/22/2026

Adopt Joy at PetSmart Burlington until 1pm!

Meet a few fabulous felines❤️

PetSmart Charities

08/18/2026

FRIENDS!

Look at this sweet, irresistible face with that fabulous eyebrow mark!

Mia is a senior girl currently sheltered at Guilford County Animal Services who is need of a family! Which human is gonna be lucky enough to adopt her?!

08/17/2026

Happy Monday, Friends!

Let's make Monday happy for sweet boy Raiden who needs a rescue before he runs out of time!

This boy did well with dogs and cats according to shelter staff! Please share his post and help him get adopted!

RESCUED BY Loving Pet Project NC - LPPNC!!

SWEET RAIDEN HAS RESCUE COMMITMENT!!

URGENT RESCUE NEEDED FOR SWEET RAIDEN BY 8/26‼️‼️RANDOLPH COUNTY NC SHELTER IS FULL 🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘 🐾 Meet Raiden!
Raiden is an estimated 8-year-old Terrier mix weighing 15.2 lbs. Raiden was brought to our shelter as a stray by one of our Animal Control Officers and was unfortunately never reclaimed.
Upon intake, Raiden appeared to be an older gentleman, with plenty of gray throughout his coat. He also appears to be in need of a dental, with significant tartar buildup and a few missing teeth in the front. He also has a small cherry eye, on his right eye. Despite finding himself in the shelter, Raiden is a sweet, outgoing guy who loves everyone he meets! He is happiest when he is getting attention and making friends. Raiden also walks great on a leash.
Dog Test: Raiden did great! He was ready to play and was very interested in interacting with his canine friend.
Cat Test: Our feline tester was a little spicy, and while Raiden was interested, he was respectful and allowed the cat to have his space.
🚨 RAIDEN NEEDS RESCUE! 🚨
Our shelter is currently FULL, and Raiden is in need of rescue!

The following animal needs rescue:
Raiden #54428
Unaltered
Terrier Mix
Estimated 8 Years
Weighs 15.2lbs.
Has received the following vaccines:
Bordetella, Distemper, Rabies
Dewormed
Heartworm Negative
EOH 8/26/26

For additional information regarding our animals in need, please follow our rescue page at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572413200571

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To commit to an animal available for rescue, please send your commitment to [email protected]. We only accept commitment and transfer from rescues with a Letter of Determination from the IRS as a 501c3 charitable organization. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at [email protected] or call us at 336-683-8240.

For additional information regarding our animals in need, please follow our rescue page at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572413200571