22 March 2011 ~ 6 Comments

Cumberland County, TN Animal Shelter Needs Your Help

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We have a major crisis happening here in Cumberland County, TN and have about 48 hours to react. The shelter is closed on Wednesdays but we will help coordinate rescue pulls.

The Cumberland County Animal Shelter employees are all out due to injury and / or illness. The shelter is understaffed and depending on volunteers.

The County is coming in to take control and have determined that there are too many dogs and will euthanize nearly 50% of what is currently there.  According to the volunteer coordinator, 75% of the 100 plus animals there are adoptable.

This shelter receives very little traffic and until recently very little support.

We have 48 hours to save the lives of 50 dogs…and we need help.  If you would kindly forward to anyone who can assist, these animals would be forever grateful.  As we all know, this is no one’s fault but the irresponsible pet owners… and the county is just looking out for the safety and wellbeing of all of the volunteers now.  We are in the process of working on an adoption center for this county to have a place to transfer these animals in the future.

Cumberland County Animal Control Shelter
East Lane, Crossville, TN
931-484-8525
Hours 10am-2pm (Closed Wednesday – but volunteers working)

Thank you for any/all support you can provide.

Jennifer Farley
Director
A.A.R.F.
www.aarf-tn.com

6 Responses to “Cumberland County, TN Animal Shelter Needs Your Help”

  1. Carolyn Powell 23 March 2011 at 2:43 pm Permalink

    Where can I find out about the dogs specifically. While I can’t take many, I may be able to take a foster one or two. I do rescue here in Putnam County and live in Monterey. Let me know.

  2. Brenda Peters 23 March 2011 at 7:47 pm Permalink

    What kind of help do you need most ?

  3. admin 24 March 2011 at 7:36 am Permalink

    The Shelter needs volunteers to help clean, take photos and update Petfinder, and then we will need local foster homes for the dogs that we are going to pull. Thank you for caring!!

  4. admin 24 March 2011 at 7:36 am Permalink

    We will have someone working on Petfinder updates for the shelter today.

  5. michele watkins 23 March 2012 at 12:15 am Permalink

    this morning i was on a site with cumberland co,tn animal adoption and seen a black female dog, her name is maggie. now i cant locate the animal, help. my phone is 931-622-2697, it was on the morning news

  6. admin 29 March 2012 at 10:47 am Permalink

    She is still available, and will be rescued by AARF soon!


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