Ferris Animal Shelter

05/04/2026

🐾 A male shepherd was found Friday in the 500 block of Suffolk.

This same dog was previously reported about a month ago near the 800 block of Keystone Ct, so he may belong to someone in the area.

If you recognize him or know his owner, please contact us so we can help get him home.

Let’s get this pup back where he belongs ❤️

📞 972-544-2110
📧 [email protected]

04/27/2026

🚨 URGENT: Volunteers Needed for Emergency Pop-Up Shelter 🚨

We are currently operating an emergency pop-up shelter to provide immediate care for 75 dogs in transition, and we need your help to keep them safe, clean, and loved.

We are looking for dedicated individuals to join us daily at our 1204 N Central St location. Whether you’re an experienced handler or just want to give back to animals in need, we have a spot for you!

📍 Location & Time • Address: 1204 N Central St • Daily Hours: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM 🐾
How You Can Help

• Cage Cleaners: The "unsung heroes" ensuring every dog has a sanitized, dry, and comfortable space to rest.

• Dog Walkers: Helping our pups get some fresh air, a potty break, and much-needed exercise.

• Caregivers: Providing socialization, monitoring health/behavior, and offering comfort to keep stress levels low.

Shift We need coverage during our full operational window: • Full Day: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Requirements: Please wear closed-toe shoes and clothes you don't mind getting a little dirty! 🔗 Ready to jump in?
Please sign up here: 👉 https://www.flyingbrescue.org/getinvolved

Note: We will provide a quick on-site safety orientation at the beginning of your shift. Thank you for helping us provide a frontline safety net for these dogs! 🐶❤️

Find out how you can volunteer your time and/or your home to save more lives.

04/16/2026

A single moment captured, but a daily mission reflected. At Ferris Animal Services, our officers answer the call day in and day out often in difficult conditions to protect, rescue, and comfort the animals of our community. Recently, American Humane selected this powerful photo of our team in action to represent their nationwide fundraising efforts.

We are deeply humbled by this. To us, this isn't just a photograph; it represents the quiet dedication, the tough cases, and the genuine care our staff brings to the field every single day.

Animal welfare is a team effort that stretches far beyond our city limits. We are proud to see the hard work of our staff recognized, and even prouder that this image will be used to help American Humane raise vital funds for animals in crisis across the country.

Thank you to our incredible community for your ongoing support of our staff and our shelter. When national organizations look at Ferris, they see exactly what we see: a community that truly cares.

Please take a moment to SHARE this post to highlight the critical work of Animal Control Officers, both here at home and nationwide. 🇺🇸🐾

As you wrap up your taxes, it’s a perfect time to give back to causes that matter and make a difference that’s both meaningful and tax-deductible.

When you support American Humane Society, you’re donating to a trusted nonprofit with a proven track record of transparency and impact.

We’re proud to be:
✅ A Charity Navigator Four-Star Rated organization
✅ Honored with the Platinum Seal of Transparency from Candid
✅ One of the few charities to meet all 20 Standards for Charity Accountability from the BBB Wise Giving Alliance

Your generosity helps us protect animals through our Pups4Patriots™ program, rescue efforts during disasters, and so much more.

http://americanhumane.org/donate

04/08/2026

This sweet little lady was found on Wood Street yesterday evening and is currently safe.

If she belongs to you or you know her owner, please contact our animal services staff:
📞 972-544-2110
📧 [email protected]

04/07/2026

You don’t end up looking like this overnight. This is what neglect looks like when it’s given time to settle in.

Seven months old. And already running out of time. She survived a fire.
She survived the smoke, the chaos, the kind of moment most dogs don’t make it through.
But that wasn’t what almost took her life.

It was the long term neglect.

A small kennel. An empty bowl. Days turning into weeks… weeks turning into months.

People walking past her. Looking at her. Knowing she was there. And still doing nothing.

Every rib on her body tells that story. Every hollow space where muscle should be. Every step she takes on legs that were never given the chance to grow strong.

She didn’t fight to survive the fire just to fade away in a cage.

When Ferris Animal Services and American Humane stepped onto that property, Liliana wasn’t loud.

She didn’t bark. She didn’t beg. She just stood there. Watching. Waiting.

The way a dog does when she’s learned no one is coming. Except this time, someone did.

And even after everything… she didn’t shut down. She didn’t turn cold. She didn’t give up on people. She leaned in.
Soft. Gentle. Fragile.

Still choosing trust when she had every reason not to. That’s what hits the hardest. Not how thin she is. Not what she’s been through. It’s that she’s still willing to love.

Liliana is safe.

But a loud kennel is not where a dog like this heals. She needs quiet. She needs patience.

She needs someone who will fill her bowl every time and never make her wonder again.

For seven months, she was invisible. Not anymore.

Foster. Adopt. Show up.
Ferris Animal Services
1200 N Central St. Ferris, TX 75125
📞 972-544-2110
📧 [email protected]

Donate: https://americanhumane.co/4lS8V53

04/07/2026

Scooter

You almost wouldn’t notice him.
Black coat. Quiet kennel. No noise.
Easy to pass.

And that’s exactly what keeps happening.
Scooter is 7 months old, and he’s learning a hard lesson fast.

if you’re not the loudest dog, you don’t get picked.

He doesn’t bark for attention.
He doesn’t throw himself at the door.
He sits.
Watches.
Waits.

Like he still believes someone is going to stop.

He came from an Ellis County hoarding case. Spent his entire life in a cage.
No space. No voice. No reason to believe he mattered.

Now he’s finally out…
and somehow, he’s still the one getting overlooked.

There’s something about him that hits different when you actually look.

The way he holds eye contact.
The way he stays still instead of panicking.
Like he’s trying so hard to get it right the first time.
Like he doesn’t want to mess up his one chance.

He’s a lab mix. It’s all there.
Loyal. Focused. Ready.

Just waiting for someone to choose him.
Not walk past him.

Right now, he’s in a kennel.
Watching people come and go.
Trying to figure out when it’s his turn.

Make it his turn.

Ferris Animal Services
1200 N Central St
Ferris, TX 75125
📞 972-544-2110
📧 [email protected]

Please share or message Ferris Animal Services immediately if you can offer placement or adoption.

04/07/2026

Bentley
8 months old.

In a few months, Bentley is your shadow.

The dog at your feet.
Following you from room to room.
Looking up just to make sure you’re still there.

Right now, he’s just trying to find his brave.

When you reach out, he pauses.

Leans in
then stops.

Not fear.
Just a dog teaching himself that this time… it might be safe.

He wants to trust you.
He just needs one extra second to believe it.

Bentley came from an Ellis County hoarding case. That part is over.

This part matters more.

The loud, outgoing dogs get attention.
Dogs like Bentley get overlooked.

They stand in the back.
They watch.
They wait.

He is dog-friendly. Gentle. Quietly trying.

But a kennel won’t build his confidence.
It just keeps his world small.

He doesn’t need pity.

He needs someone steady.

Give him consistency, and the dog who hesitates today becomes the dog who never leaves your side.

He is waiting.

Ferris Animal Services
1200 N Central St
Ferris, TX 75125
📞 972-544-2110
📧 [email protected]

Message Ferris Animal Services now.

04/07/2026

Snickers

8 months old.

He doesn’t rush up to the kennel door.

He hangs back… and watches.

Not because he’s scared.
Because he’s never been shown what comes next.

Snickers spent his entire life in a wire cage in an Ellis County hoarding situation. No walks. No toys. No one teaching him how to be a puppy.

Then the fire came.

And in the middle of that chaos, Ferris Animal Services, alongside American Humane, pulled him out and gave him his first real chance.

Now he’s here.

Safe, but still learning.

When you reach your hand toward him, he pauses. He looks at you so gently, like he’s trying to understand something he’s never felt before.

Is this what kindness looks like?

He watches the other dogs walk up for attention.
He watches them trust.

And then, slowly, he takes a step forward wanting to be part of it, just not quite knowing how yet.

That’s Snickers.

Sweet. Dog-friendly. Quietly hopeful.

Not broken.

Just waiting for someone to show him that the world can be soft.

Give him a little patience, and he will give everything back. The kind of dog who stays close. Who watches you like you’re his whole world because you could be.

Right now, he’s in a kennel.

And he deserves more than watching life happen from behind a door.

He made it out of the fire.
He made it out of the hoarding.

Now he just needs someone to take his paw and show him the rest.

Ferris Animal Services
1200 N Central St
Ferris, TX 75125
📞 972-544-2110
📧 [email protected]

Please share or message Ferris Animal Services immediately if you can offer placement or adoption.

04/07/2026

Milky Way

She doesn’t know what to do when someone opens the kennel door.

Not because she’s scared.
Because no one has ever shown her what comes next.

For 8 months, Milky Way lived in a cage in an Ellis County hoarding situation. No walks. No routine. No human teaching her how the world works.

Then a fire tore through the property.

That’s when Ferris Animal Services, alongside American Humane, stepped in and pulled her out.
And now she’s here.

Safe but standing still.
She watches everything.
She watches other dogs walk up to people like it’s normal.
She watches them take treats without hesitation.
She watches them trust.

Then she tries to copy them, like a kid showing up to school for the first time with no idea what class she’s in.

That’s Milky Way.
Not broken.
Not aggressive.
Not damaged.
Just… never taught.

And that matters.
Because dogs like this don’t need saving twice.
They need someone to step in and show them what to do next.

Right now, she’s in a kennel.
And a kennel doesn’t teach trust.
It doesn’t teach routine.
It doesn’t teach life.
It just holds her in place.

She already survived the fire.
She already survived the hoarding.
Don’t let her get stuck here.

Ferris Animal Services
1200 N Central St
Ferris, TX 75125

📞 972-544-2110
📧 [email protected]

Please share or message Ferris Animal Services immediately if you can offer placement or adoption.

04/07/2026

URGENT PLACEMENT NEEDED: Caramel survived the unimaginable.

After a devastating fire exposed a severe hoarding situation in Ellis County, Ferris Animal Services and American Humane deployed immediately to save numerous dogs trapped in desperate conditions.

Caramel, just 7 months old, was one of them. For her entire life, her world was nothing but the wire walls of a cage.

What should have broken her spirit didn’t…

Caramel is remarkably social, dog-friendly, and eager to understand a world she was never allowed to be part of. She watches other dogs and follows their lead, taking her first tentative steps into a normal life.

But right now, her situation is critical. Caramel has never lived in a home. She is starting entirely from zero. While she is finally safe from the hoarding property, a municipal kennel is not a place for her to heal.

She requires an environment with patience, structure, and a steady leader to teach her how to be a dog.

We are issuing an urgent plea for a dedicated rescue partner or a highly committed adopter to step forward and help start her healing process.

Dogs like Caramel are not broken, they are simply unshaped, waiting for someone to finally show them what safety feels like.

She is waiting right now. We cannot let her stall in a kennel after everything she has survived.

Location:
Ferris Animal Services
1200 N Central St.
Ferris, TX 75125

📞 972-544-2110
📧 [email protected]

Please share or message Ferris Animal Services immediately if you can offer placement or adoption.