Friends of Kershaw County Humane Society

09/30/2026

💔 🙏 HEAR US. THIS IS A REAL PLEA FOR HELP. - Kershaw County Humane Society needs our help!!! 🆘️❗️❌️🆘️🙏💔

The animals pictured here are only SOME of the animals currently at the Kershaw County Humane Society. Just some!

Behind every photo is a life and right now, those lives are at risk. The shelter is running out of the space, food, supplies and resources needed to safely care for them.

KCHS works tirelessly behind the scenes to safely house approximately 200 dogs and 150 cats ❤️‍🩹 in a facility designed for around 80 dogs and 70 cats.❌️🆘️

Think about that

They NEED some lives saved💕

✨️💻💻 kchumanesociety.org

🐾🐾 (All animals can be seen on their website - all are available for foster, rescue and adoption.).

Every day staff are cleaning, feeding, medicating, doing laundry, managing medical needs, monitoring animals, handling intakes, answering calls, coordinating rescues and adoptions, and this is all while doing countless things most people never see.

They have stretched the space. ❌️

They have stretched the resources.❗️

They have stretched themselves.❌️💔

But now, **the need is overtaking even their extraordinary efforts.**

# # # 🍽️ **FOOD IS AN IMMEDIATE EMERGENCY.**🙏❌️

The shelter is down to just a couple of days of dry dog food.

A couple of days.❗️❗️

There are more adult dogs than anything else, and many animals require multiple meals each day.

Hundreds of animals cannot be fed without food. And they DO rely on donations

# # # 🏠 **SPACE & SUPPLIES ARE ALSO DESPERATELY NEEDED.**

KCHS needs:

• **Kennel / housing space**
• **Fosters**
• **Adopters**
• **Rescue partners**
• **Cleaning supplies**
• **Cat litter & cat supplies**
• **Medical supplies**
• **Everyday shelter necessities**
• **Financial donations**

And intake hasn't slowed down.

**Dogs. Cats. Puppies. Kittens. More arriving every day.**

This isn't about wanting more.

**It's about having enough to care for the animals already here, while still being able to help the ones arriving tomorrow.**

If you can donate food, please do.

If you can donate or volunteer please do.

If you can foster, adopt, or help with rescue placement, please do. 🆘️🆘️

If you can't do any of those things, **PLEASE SHARE. 🐾🙏

One bag of food helps.

One foster opens space.

One adoption opens a kennel.

One rescue placement saves a life.

One share could reach the person who makes it possible.

**Lives need saving.**

# # # And KCHS needs YOU.🐾💔

[email protected] (any rescue pulls or questions)

803-272-8410 is the shelter TEXTLINE (sms)

09/25/2026

😇💙👏 Let’s celebrate! Another two lives will now be safe and heading out on freedom rides soon! Mr Dex and Miss Bell, both young lives who have already spent too long at the Kershaw County Humane Society. Bell arrived as an owner surrender a couple of months ago and Dex came in as a stray puppy around 4-5 weeks ago. Both the full package in their own unique way, but yet both still waiting for homes of their own. They needed to be noticed, and thankfully in time they were. 👏🙏
Right now, the shelter is STILL operating at EXTREME overcapacity levels. Many lives are sadly, at risk. --- 🆘️❌️

So you can imagine these two getting the chance to head out is great news, and now gives a chance help another or two! With that being said, the shelter staff really can not do it alone. There are costs involved that they could use some help raising. So if we could help them raise approx ($160.00) ** $80.00 for each, Dex and Bell and what they require. It helps with some of the costs involved to get them fully vetted, health exams and health certs and on a freedom ride transport.
Your help would not only be amazing but it would help save lives! 🙏❤️

09/25/2026

💔🐾 **FRED & WILMA NEED OUT.** 🐾💙

These two terrified little strays arrived at the Kershaw County Humane Society scared, confused, and overwhelmed. The shelter is extremely overcrowded, loud, and frightening for babies who have already been through so much.

But underneath their fear are two little souls who want love. When you hold them, they tuck themselves into you. They just need the chance to learn that the world can be safe. 😭💙
They have a rescue opportunity, but we need help getting them there.

🙏 WE NEED $125 FOR THEIR FREEDOM out of here!

Just $125 can change the course of two little live, and getting them out also gives the shelter room and time to help another animal in need.

Even just $5 makes a difference and matters. Every donation helps. Every share helps. Every helping hand is appreciated 👏

Please help us turn their worlds around and show them what real love and kindness looks like. ❤️

🙏 **Donate. Share. Help us get these babies OUT.**

09/19/2026

They are FULL - lives NEED saving. Many at risk, and many arriving daily ! 😩🙏

09/19/2026

Puppy and kitten WET - is still needed! 🙏🐾

09/15/2026

🚨 **PLEASE. Kershaw County Humane Society NEEDS HELP.** 🚨

They are drowning. -

Below are just SOME of the animals currently at KCHS, waiting.
-Waiting for a foster,a rescue,for an adopter. Waiting for a chance.
The question we have to ask is how many have already waited too long? How are they suppose to maintain and continue, if the animals are just waiting.

So many are now at risk for reasons the shelter staff cannot control. 😔 There are simply too many animals, not enough space, fosters, rescue placements, and resources are stretched beyond their limits. - ❌️🆘️

Still they keep coming.

They need rescue help. They need fosters. They need ALL need adopters.

[email protected] -- (for any rescue questions/interests)

Donations are low, while food, litter, cleaning supplies, medical supplies and other daily necessities are constantly needed.😩❌️

Please look at these faces....😔🙏
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Visit **Kchumanesociety.org** to see the animals waiting.

📱 **Text the shelter:** 803-272-8410
Their textline is monitored during opening hours:
**Tuesday–Saturday, 11 AM–5:30 PM**
**Wednesday: 11 AM–4:30 PM**

Please . . . . .

Kershaw County, we must do better.❌️❌️

Because this is NOT a shelter problem. -
This is a community problem. These animals need their community to show up. We all need to be a part of the solution. ❤️🐾
&UpdateTheLaw 🙏

09/11/2026

🌹🐾💙❤️ 🇺🇲🙏🐾

'If you see something, say something..."

09/06/2026

09/04/2026

💔 SOME DAYS, SHELTER 'LIFE' AND RESCUE JUST FEELS DEFEATING. 😞

This morning, Kershaw County Humane Society staff arrived to find a handsome boy abandoned outside the shelter, tied up with a chain around his neck that weighed almost FOUR POUNDS.*😳 Staff literally had to saw it off to free him.

Confused, sad and completely unsure of what was happening, he was left alone to carry that chain and padlock around his neck. They named him **Tyrone.** Despite whatever life has handed him, he has been nothing but a gentleman. He was visibly relieved to finally have that chain removed.

Not even an hour later another terrified soul arrived through Animal Control. This little girl was so frightened she had to be safely trapped to bring her in. They named her Crystal. Just looking at her, you can tell she hasn't had an easy life.

Two animals. Two different stories. Both had humans. Both ended up here.

Now, both are in an already overcapacity shelter needing everything from medical intake, vaccines, deworming and preventatives, to time to decompress, heal and learn to trust. Eventually, they will both need to be spayed or neutered.

While staff are doing all of this, two unplanned arrivals and their situations to handle another animal arrives. Other animals already there need care....it never ends.

That's the part people don't see.

It's never-ending. The emergencies don't stop. The kennels don't magically appear. The staff doesn’t magically multiply. Some days, honestly, they are exhausted.

But then Tyrone gives them a tail wag. Crystal takes a bite of food. One scared animal finally lets them touch them.

And they keep going. ❤️

Because these animals didn't create this crisis.

They are simply living through it.

But KCHS cannot keep doing this alone.

The shelter needs hands, fosters, adopters, volunteers, donations and community support. If this crisis is ever going to change, it has to start where it begins. In the county, the communities and the neighborhoods.

Spay and neuter. Responsible ownership. Keeping animals safe. Asking for help *before* an animal is abandoned. Helping a neighbor.

**People have to stop waiting for someone else to fix this.**

Tyrone didn't deserve a four-pound chain around his neck.
Crystal didn't deserve to be so terrified of people, underweight, used for breeding, and missing most of her fur. Sigh -

Neither should have had to become another number in an already overflowing shelter.
But tonight, they're safe.
They're fed.
They're being loved.

For now, **that's enough to make the exhausted staff get up tomorrow and do it all again.** 💔🐾

Kchumanesociety.org

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09/04/2026

# # 💔 THIS IS WHAT RESCUE REALLY FEELS LIKE. 💔


Kchumanesociety.org 🐾

Look at this picture.

Look at the woman sitting in the middle of it al, holding one dog close, while surrounded by the faces of **all the animals she cannot save.**

Look at the phones.

The messages.

The comments.

The opinions.

The pointing fingers.

The people demanding answers, questioning decisions and telling rescue workers what they *should* be doing.

And then look at the one person in the middle.

She is crying too.

Because behind every “NO, WE ARE FULL” is a person who desperately wishes the answer could be yes.

This is rescue.

It isn't just the happy adoption photos.
It isn't just wagging tails and “happy ever after.”
It isn't just the beautiful transformations people see on Facebook.

Sometimes rescue is sitting at a computer late at night, answering message after message about animals who need somewhere to go—while knowing you have nowhere left to

It's looking into a scared animal's eyes and knowing they deserve better, while knowing your shelter is already stretched beyond what it was ever designed to handle.

It's choosing which emergency you can respond to because you simply cannot physically save everyone.

Then going home thinking about the ones you couldn't.

That is the part people don't see.

At Kershaw County Humane Society, we don't stop caring because we're full.

We are full because we care.

Every dog.
Every cat.
Every puppy.
Every kitten.
Every injured, neglected, abandoned, frightened or forgotten animal that comes through our doors matters.

But love does not create another kennel.

Love doesn't magically create a foster home.

Love doesn't pay a veterinary bill.

Love certainly doesn't make the overwhelming number of animals needing help disappear.

Yet somehow, when we say **“we can't,”** people sometimes hear **“we don't care.”**

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Because the person saying *“we can't take this one”* may have already spent the entire day caring for dozens of animals.

Then she opens Facebook…

…and gets told she isn't doing enough.

**Please stop.**

Before you criticize a shelter, a rescue, a foster or an individual trying desperately to help, ask yourself:

# # # **What am I doing to help carry the weight?

Because this crisis does not belong to one shelter.

It does not belong to one rescue.

It does not belong to Animal Control.

It belongs to all of us.

One person can foster.

One can adopt.

One can transport.

One can volunteer.

One can donate $5.

One can donate food.

One can share a post.

One can network an animal.

One can simply choose kindness instead of criticism.

Sometimes another rescue can't take an animal—but they can help find the one that can.

THAT is how we save them.

Not by tearing each other apart.

Not by pointing fingers.

By working together.

KCHS will continue to show up.

We will continue to fight for the animals who have nobody else.

But we cannot do it alone.

So the next time you see a shelter worker sitting behind a computer, surrounded by messages, animals and impossible decisions…

Don't ask why they couldn't save one more.

Ask:

# # # What can I do to help?

Because while we're arguing about who should save them…

They are still waiting.

And they don't need another opinion.

They need **someone to step forward.** 💔🐾

Kershaw County Humane Society
**Camden, SC**