We have chosen Kuranda dog beds for our boarding facilities because they are so good for our dogs. We still don't have enough for all of our kennels. If you would like to donate a bed so another dog can sleep in proper comfort, please click here.
THE ANIMALS AT THE SHELTER NEED YOUR HELP!
The shelter is full and the dogs and cats desperately need a safe place to go. Dearborn County Animal Shelter is NOT a no-kill shelter.
If you have room in your heart and home and would like to help...consider adopting a wonderful pal from the shelter or becoming a FOSTER PARENT.
Foster parents are under no obligation to adopt, but provide a safe, loving environment for teaching basic skills and preparing the pet to find a good home. To find out more information about becoming a foster parent, call 812-539-9706.
P.A.W.S. Information
Partners for Animal Welfare Society of Dearborn County, Inc. is an all volunteer, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of homeless and companion animals in Dearborn County. P.A.W.S. was chartered as a non-profit organization in the state of Indiana in April 2001. The P.A.W.S. group is heading up the capital campaign to raise funds to build a desperately needed NEW DEARBORN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER.
Help us Build the NEW DEARBORN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER - PLEASE!
Every year an average of 1500 homeless animals come to the shelter broken in body and spirit, in desperate need of temporary shelter and a healing touch. At the same time, countless people come to us seeking the unique brand of unconditional love that animals have been giving to humans since the dawn of civilization.
We need your help to create a place of hope for the animals of Dearborn County who have lost their way and for the people whose lives they have the potential to enrich.
The cost to build and equip an appropriate shelter to serve our growing community is $1.6 million.
We are very close to achieving our goal. In recognition of the importance of this project, the City of Lawrenceburg has donated $800,000.
The current balance in the New Shelter Fund is $477,000. In order to take advantage of the City of Lawrenceburg's forward-thinking offer, our goal is to raise the remaining $323,000 by June. Your timely and generouse gift in any denomination will bring us ever closer to our goal!
Please make your tax deductible contribution to:
P.A.W.S. of Dearborn County
Specify New Shelter Fund
P.O. Box 133
Guilford, IN 47022
For information check out P.A.W.S. website: www.pawsofdearborncounty.org
The Importance of Training a Dog
Obedience training is, in fact, critical when it comes to nurturing a healthy human-animal relationship and creating a socially compatible pet. The basic elements - sit, down, stay, come, and heel - help produce a good canine. In a practical sense, obedience-trained dogs have an easier life, and are easier to live with, than their untrained peers. If dogs desist from jumping up on strangers, sit or lie quietly when asked, and walk politely on lead, they're bound to spend more time with their owners going to picnics, ballparks, and other public places, and will spend less time alone at home.
Dogs taught to lie down on the arrival of vistor - after barking a greeting or alarm - are more likely to be included in the dinner party and less likely to wind up isolated in the garage or basement. Obedience training is an education in good manners that, almost literally, opens many doors for otherwise confined dogs. Rather than thinking of obedience training as a series of pointless rituals, think of it as a tool to help dogs cope in the real world.
Who We Are
Dearborn County Animal Shelter is the only shelter in Dearborn County. It is small and rural - located about 11 miles from Lawrenceburg, IN and 23 miles west of Cincinnati, OH. The shelter staff work very hard to save as many animals lives as possible, and we are proud of our efforts in placing healthy, social, loving animals into permanent, loving homes.
Since the shelter and P.A.W.S. have partnered in working to get animals to rescue, sponsoring Adopt-a-Friend events, and finding foster homes for the animals - we have seen the euthanization rate drop to 9%.
In the year 2005, over 450 animals were moved to rescue. These dogs most likely would have been put down because of lack of space at the shelter. Without the efforts of PAWS volunteers working in conjunction with the shelter staff, the euthanization rate would have remained at 63% as it was in 2000.
However, it is an intense, daily life & death struggle to save as many lives as possible. The motto at the shelter is NEVER, NEVER, NEVER GIVE UP! So if you are looking for a companion animal - please make adoption your first option!"
Love can't be bought - but it CAN be adopted!
Dog adoption fee: $40.00
Cat adoption fee: $20.00
Adopting a friend
Come Visit Us!
Directions to the shelter from Route 50:
On Route 50 in Lawrenceburg, IN, turn onto Route 48 (Route 48 dead-ends into Route 50) and drive 11 miles to Manchester.
Turn left onto County Farm road (the Manchester Fire Department is on the right).
Follow County Farm Road for about 1.5 miles. The shelter is on the left.
For those of you with GPS, the coordinates to the shelter are:
N 39 degrees 08.947'
W 085 degrees 02.143' Dearborn County Animal Shelter 11681 County Farm Rd
