Coshocton County Dog Surrenders:
✔️ Call ahead to schedule a drop off so we can discuss the surrender. 740-622-9741
✔️Bring your drivers license.
✔️Pay the $25.00 county required surrender fee (otherwise we, the non-profit, have to pay the county, to admit your dog)
✔️Signed owner release form at office.
Our cat and Kitten intakes are Mondays-Tuesdays-Thursdays 11-12:45pm. You must complete a drop off form at intake to surrender here. If you are bringing more than 6-10 adult cats or multiple ferals in traps from large scale cat colony situations, you must call ahead to schedule and discuss surrrender. We euthanize here, but are always structuring space around who we can hold—and save. In the high volume intake weeks, many large groups with no medical history (not vaccinated or fixed) are not held for adoption due to space and resource limitations.
Many no-kill dog pounds and societies refuse to admit owned pets in any capacity, this leaves dogs and cats to dangerous conditions as abandoned animals or rehomes that result in cruelty or neglect of that animal. Humane euthanasia, is far more merciful and kind, than many of the options left to desperate individuals. We remain open admit to our county for this reason.
How can we reduce overpopulation?
The general public needs to be responsible and fix the animals they feed as strays & those in their homes before unwanted litters are born.
How has the no-kill movement failed animals & communities?
All shelters and pounds who neglect to do what is necessary & responsible for the last 20+ years, in the name of the failed “no kill” movement, contributes to our heavy burden. Leaving cats by the thousands to the streets did not solve a crisis, it created one.
Responsible & socially conscious animal sheltering includes accepting ALL animals from your county, NOT just the highly adoptable ones.
If you are in these counties, call these numbers for help with your dogs/unwanted litters:
🐕Holmes County Dog Wardens Office
330-674-6301
🐕Muskingum County K9 Adoption Center
740-453-0273
🐕🐈Animal Shelter Society (of Muskingum County) 740-452-1077
🐕Tuscarawas County Dog Pound
(Accepts in county owner surrenders and always has!) 330-339-2616
🐕🐈Tuscarawas County Humane Society
330-343-6060
🐕🐈Licking County Humane Society
740-323-2100
🐕Licking County Dog Shelter
740-349-6463
🐕Guernsey County Dog Shelter
740-432-2219
Every single county has a dog pound, and dog pounds are required to accept ALL in county, stray dogs.