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Help Furkids Win the 2020 Give Atlanta Challenge!

Help Furkids Win the 2020 Give Atlanta Challenge!

GIVE Atlanta 2020 is Here! You can help Furkids win again. It's time for the annual GIVE Atlanta Challenge, a friendly fundraising competition amongst a select…

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Volunteer Spotlight: Georgia Gunter

Volunteer Spotlight: Georgia Gunter

We value each and every volunteer who donates their time and energy to our cause. In our Volunteer Spotlight series we're honoring our amazing volunteers…

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Bissell Pet Foundation’s Empty the Shelters

Bissell Pet Foundation’s Empty the Shelters

Furkids is participating in the Bissell Pet Foundation’s largest Empty the Shelters event to date. From October 1-4, Bissell Pet Foundation is generously sponsoring reduced…

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Affordable Vaccination & Microchip Event

Affordable Vaccination & Microchip Event

Furkids is once again partnering with our Subaru Loves Pets partner Troncalli to bring affordable pet vaccinations and microchipping to north Atlanta! We will also…

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Can You be Their Hurricane Hero?

Can You be Their Hurricane Hero?

Hurricane Sally has left an Alabama animal shelter flooded, and homeless animals need our help now! Furkids is preparing to receive dozens of these hurricane survivors…

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Have a Heart for Healthy Hearts

Have a Heart for Healthy Hearts

So many of the dogs and puppies we rescue have a variety of illnesses, but one deadly illness we see most often is heartworm disease.…

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Volunteer Spotlight: Nancy Rinzler

Volunteer Spotlight: Nancy Rinzler

We value each and every volunteer who donates their time and energy to our cause. In our Volunteer Spotlight series we're honoring our amazing volunteers…

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Jacque’s Two-Pound Spa Treatment

Jacque’s Two-Pound Spa Treatment

Would you like to lose almost 10% of your body weight in an hour? Poor Jacque came to Furkids from a sad situation, where his…

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Submit Your Adoption Story - Help Furkids Win $100,000

Submit Your Adoption Story - Help Furkids Win $100,000

Has your adopted Furkid changed your life? Share your story - Help save lives and make our holiday wishes come true! The Petco Foundation and co-sponsor BOBS from Skechers are looking for looking for…

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Samba’s Long Road

Samba’s Long Road

Samba was just a puppy and had been abandoned - failed at every level by the people who were supposed to be there for him. When we…

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Orville’s Bumpy Ride to a Soft Landing

Orville’s Bumpy Ride to a Soft Landing

He is a beautiful fluffy young cat that most people would love to have; yet he was found wandering outdoors, hungry, with a badly infected puncture…

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Volunteer Spotlight: Courtney Vincent

Volunteer Spotlight: Courtney Vincent

We value each and every volunteer who donates their time and energy to our cause. In our Volunteer Spotlight series we're honoring our amazing volunteers…

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How Fate helped a Mangy Puppy Find Her Way to Treats, Love and an Amazing Home

How Fate helped a Mangy Puppy Find Her Way to Treats, Love and an Amazing Home

Pinky Pye was having a rough go of it when an animal control officer picked her up in rural Georgia. She was just a puppy,…

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What Would You Do to Save a Kitten?

What Would You Do to Save a Kitten?

Last Thursday, we received a call from a volunteer who feeds a feral cat colony. A kitten had fallen 18 feet down into a storm…

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Volunteer Spotlight: Elizabeth Jordan

Volunteer Spotlight: Elizabeth Jordan

We value each and every volunteer who donates their time and energy to our cause. This month, we're kicking off our Volunteer Spotlight series to…

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Furkid’s Foster Nationally Recognized by Petco Foundation

Furkid’s Foster Nationally Recognized by Petco Foundation

Susan Struble, a foster volunteer at Furkids has been recognized as one of 22 National Foster Heroes by the Petco Foundation and BOBS from Skechers…

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The Rescues Continue, No Matter What

The Rescues Continue, No Matter What

As we navigate through the unpredictable world we now find ourselves in, we are seeing so many animals that have been abused and traumatized in…

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Shae Survives Gunshot to Her Head

Shae Survives Gunshot to Her Head

When Shae arrived at Furkids, we could immediately see her left eye had no vision, and was sunken and deformed. She was clearly in pain…

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Cinderella Needs a Happily Ever After

Cinderella Needs a Happily Ever After

A local 911 call center recently received a report that a young dog was found stuck in a manhole. They rushed to the scene to…

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Domestic Violence: Sheltering in place isn’t safe for everyone

Domestic Violence: Sheltering in place isn’t safe for everyone

As a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, some people have been trapped at home with abusive family members when they previously at least had the…

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Pledge to Save Pet Lives!

Pledge to Save Pet Lives!

Take the Pledge to Save Pet Lives   Approximately 1.5 million pets are unnecessarily euthanized in U.S. shelters each year. Now more than ever, we…

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Puppies Go from Abandonment to Awesome

Puppies Go from Abandonment to Awesome

These puppies were scared, miserably uncomfortable, alone in a rural trailer park where no one knew them – and their mom was gone. They had…

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Animal shelters see loss in fundraising, but adoptions and foster care skyrocket

Animal shelters see loss in fundraising, but adoptions and foster care skyrocket

  By: Jessica Peres, Scripps National Contributor Posted at 11:05 AM, Apr 21, 2020 and last updated 11:09 AM, Apr 21, 2020 Animal shelters across the country are…

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Founding Feline - A Message from Furkids Founder Samantha Shelton

Founding Feline - A Message from Furkids Founder Samantha Shelton

This just might be the toughest message I’ve ever written. Our founding feline, Tortie, needs your prayers and uplifting wishes of peace and comfort right…

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Pet Adoptions on the Rise During Coronavirus Outbreak

Pet Adoptions on the Rise During Coronavirus Outbreak

By Justin Felder, Fox 5 Atlanta Pet adoptions in our area are on the rise, demonstrated by a very busy time at Furkids, an animal rescue…

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