COC Animal Services Rescue Needs

🐱 Calling All Cat & Kitten Rescue Partners 🐱

Kitten season has officially arrived at Columbia Animal Services… and our cat rooms are feeling the pressure.

Over the last several days, we’ve seen a continual influx of cats and kittens entering the shelter from every direction: strays, owner surrenders, nursing litters, community cats, and foster returns now old enough for placement. What you’re seeing in these photos/videos is only a snapshot of the growing need.

Behind every kennel door is an individual life waiting for a chance:
🐾 Tiny kittens learning to trust the world
🐾 Sweet adult cats overlooked simply because they’re scared in a shelter setting
🐾 Friendly lap cats desperate for affection
🐾 Young, highly adoptable cats whose personalities are getting lost in overcrowding and stress

Our staff is doing everything possible to keep up with daily care, cleaning, medical intake, and enrichment, but space is becoming increasingly limited as intake continues to rise.

We are asking our rescue partners specializing in feline placement, neonatal care, bottle babies, medical cases, working cats, or general cat adoption programs to please take a look at our current population and consider pulling if you have any available capacity.

Even one kennel opened can create lifesaving space for the next cat or kitten waiting to come through our doors.

If your rescue may be able to help, please contact:
📧 [email protected]
📞 (803) 376-3723

As always, we are incredibly grateful for the partnerships that make this work possible. The cats in these rooms may not understand rescue… but they absolutely feel the difference when someone shows up for them. ❤️

🎉 SAFE UPDATE FOR VINCENT 🎉

We are incredibly happy to share that Vincent has officially been rescued and marked safe thanks to our amazing partners at Homeward Bound Pet Rescue!❤️

This sweet senior boy generated an incredible outpouring of love and support from the community, and we are so grateful to everyone who shared, commented, networked, and advocated on his behalf.

If you pledged toward Vincent’s rescue or would simply like to support his ongoing medical care, donations can be made directly to HBPR here:
https://www.homewardboundrescuesc.com/donate

Thank you again to Homeward Bound Pet Rescue for stepping up for Vincent and giving this deserving old man the second chance he so deserved! 🐾..

🚨 URGENT RESCUE NEEDED: Sweet Senior dog 'Vincent' Deadlined for Tuesday 5/26🚨
📍 City of Columbia Animal Services
127 Humane Lane, Columbia, SC 29209

Meet Vincent (A307361) ❤️

Vincent is a sweet 22-pound senior gentleman who urgently needs rescue placement after receiving a euthanasia deadline of Tuesday 5/26 at 5:00 PM due to medical concerns that cannot be fully addressed in the shelter environment.

This neutered male was surrendered when his owner moved overseas. According to his former owner, Vincent is:
✅ Housebroken
✅ Good with other dogs
✅ Has done well with children

While he was initially overwhelmed at intake, Vincent has since shown everyone what a loving little guy he truly is. Staff describe him as incredibly sweet, social, cooperative, and clearly very loved throughout his life.

💔 Medical Concerns:
• Large irritated mass near his hind end causing discomfort
• Multiple smaller skin growths
• Eye irritation
• General signs of advanced age

Our veterinary team believes Vincent needs a more extensive medical work-up and follow-up care outside of the shelter setting. Despite everything, he remains bright, affectionate, and eager for attention.

We truly believe Vincent deserves the chance to spend his senior years safe, comfortable, and loved -- not in a kennel

Rescue Contact:
📞(803) 776-7387
📧[email protected]

Please share to help Vincent find a rescue or safe placement in time. ❤️

🍼 Rescue Needed for Addison & Her 8 Puppies 🍼
📍 Columbia Animal Services | Columbia, SC

Addison (A307196) arrived at our shelter as a stray on 5/13, and staff quickly suspected she may have been pregnant. Before her scheduled spay surgery could take place, this sweet brindle momma surprised everyone by giving birth here at the shelter to 8 beautiful puppies. Her babies are now approximately one week old.

Through all the noise and stress of the shelter environment, Addison has remained calm, loving, and incredibly devoted to her puppies. She has been wonderful with staff handling and continues to be a patient, attentive mother despite everything she’s been through.

Addison did test low positive for heartworms, but she has already started treatment protocol and Columbia Animal Services will sponsor her heartworm treatment to help support a receiving rescue.

Right now, what Addison and her puppies need most is a committed rescue placement where they can continue nursing and growing in a safe, quiet environment outside the shelter.

Please email [email protected] if your rescue organization can help, or if you’d like additional information, medical records, or photos.

📞 (803) 776-7387
🌐 animalservices.columbiasc.gov