09/06/2026
💛Spalding County Animal Care & Control August Review! 💙
Amidst all the changes going on here at Spalding County Animal Care & Control, we still bring animals into the shelter and out to their forever homes.
All shelter data is available online through the Georgia Department of Agriculture. However, numbers without context mean very little. The shelter has staff on-site daily to oversee the care of animals within the shelter. However, due to the conditions some the animals came into the shelter with, we are not able to save each one, no matter how hard we try.
Some of the animals that died in care or were euthanized due to quality of life did so while the person that cared for them day in and day out, held them. The responsibility to euthanize animals deemed Dangerous by the courts also falls to Animal Control. The decision for euthanasia is not one made lightly and is one reached by veterinary professionals and/or shelter staff.
We celebrate adoptions and transfers out because they represent lives saved. We also celebrate strays brought in, as it allows a second chance not afforded on the street.
We encourage our community to review our statistics and be knowledgeable about what is happening with the animals in their community. https://www.agr.georgia.gov/government-shelter-data-reporting
If you wish to view adoptable animals, please check out our website: https://www.adoptapet.com/shelter/266977-spalding-county-animal-care-control-griffin-georgia