The county is passionate about the care and well-being of animals.With an ever-growing number of animals in need, we need continued support and assistance from the public. We encourage people in the community to get involved, through donations and volunteer work.Mission statement The Berkeley County Animal Shelter is committed to maintain a fiscally-responsible, healthy, safe and loving environment for rescued, abandoned, abused, or neglected animals of Berkeley County where all animals receive appropriate care and attention at all times and are treated with dignity and respect while pursuing the placement of the animals into safe, lifelong homes. Our values are: Compassion, Generosity, Respect. Our vision is for all animals to be treated with dignity and respect. We strive to place every adoptable animal in a safe and loving home or rescue group.
We recommend that you bring the entire family when you are looking for a new pet. Our free roaming cat room allows you to spend some quality time with the cats and get to know each other. You can take a dog out to the play yard or in our meet and greet room to spend some time getting to know each other. You may bring your dog to the shelter for a meet and greet with an adoptable dog where our staff will help to introduce your dog(s) to our adoptable dogs. Our dogs are Heartworm tested, dewormed, up to date on vaccines, given heartworm, flea and tick preventatives. Spayed or neutered and microchipped. Our cats are tested for FeLV and FIV, up to date on vaccines, flea and tick preventatives. Spayed or neutered and microchipped.