Adoption First Veterinary Clinic

11/26/2025

🦃🍗 Happy Almost-Thanksgiving, Pet Parents! 🍗🦃

We’re stuffing ourselves with gratitude this year —
gratitude for your pets, your patience, and your kindness. 🐾

The clinic will be closing today at 4:00 PM for the Thanksgiving holiday and we will reopen Monday, December 1st at 8:00 AM.

We hope your holiday is full of food, family, and only slightly begging dogs and cats trying to steal turkey. 😼🦴

Thank you for being part of our Adoption First family —
we’re so grateful for you! 💕🐶🐱

Send a message to learn more

11/21/2025

🐾🚨 ATTENTION FERAL CAT CARETAKERS! 🚨🐾

Monday, November 24th, we will only be accepting 10 feral cats for surgery.
This will be FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.

‼️ If you do not have to trap, please don’t trap this day so we can accommodate those who truly need the spots. ‼️

Thank you for helping us keep things running smoothly and safely for our community cats! 🐱💛

11/18/2025

💪💪💪💪💪 Troop 867 for the wiiiiin!
Cat houses are now available for pick up!

Huge thank you to these fabulous volunteers who made 27 cat houses!

Limit 2 per person.
Adoption First Animal Rescue

11/10/2025

🇺🇸🐾 Honoring Our Heroes This Veterans Day 🐾🇺🇸

Adoption First Veterinary Clinic will be CLOSED on Tuesday, November 11th, in observance of Veterans Day.

We take this day to honor and thank all who have served — your bravery, sacrifice, and dedication mean the world to us. ❤️💙

We’ll reopen on Wednesday, November 12th, ready to care for your furry family members! 🐶🐱

Send a message to learn more

11/09/2025

We are down a Dr tomorrow. Please stop trapping as we will reach capacity and have to turn ferals away tomorrow. Thank you for understanding.

10/21/2025

WE ARE HIRING!
Two different positions- 1 Licensed Technician and 1 Assistant

Licensed Technician:
The hours for this job will be 4/5 days per week from 7:30 am-4pm. Hourly rate is between $18 and $22 per hour depending on experience.
This person must be:
-able to thrive in a fast-paced environment
-be meticulous and be very detail oriented and reliable
Duties include:
-Preparing animals for surgery
-Assisting with well and sick visits
-Managing a team
-Maintaining records
-Sterilize and wrap surgical packs
-Communicate with the public
-Answer phone calls and emails

Veterinary Assistant:
The hours are 7:30am to 4pm Monday- Thursday with some Fridays.
Hourly rate is $12-15 per hour based on experience.
This person must be:
-able to thrive in a fast-paced environment
-be meticulous and be very detail oriented and reliable
Duties include:
-MUST BE WILLING AND ABLE TO LIFT 50LBS. There is a lot of lifting required in this job.
-preparing animals for surgery
-maintaining records
-sterilize and wrap surgical packs
-communicate with the public
-answer phone calls and emails

Location- 114 Enterprise Rd Jacksonville NC 28546

Send resumes to [email protected]

10/17/2025

10/17/2025

Please share. Due to staffing shortage
NO feral walk-ins this Monday Oct. 20

10/15/2025

🎉🐾 HAPPY VET TECH WEEK! 🐾🎉

Behind every calm patient, successful surgery, and wagging tail…
there’s a rockstar vet tech making it happen! 💪❤️

Help us give a HUGE shoutout to our amazing vet tech Jess, who:
✨ Loves every patient like their own
✨ Keeps our clinic running smoothly
✨ Handles the “spicy” pets with a smile
✨ Is the heart of our team!

Drop a ❤️ or a “thank you” in the comments to show her some love!

10/09/2025

🐾🚨 Heads Up, Pet Parents! 🚨🐾

Adoption First Veterinary Clinic will be CLOSED on Monday, October 13th!

Our team will be taking a short paws 🐾 (we couldn’t resist 😄) and will reopen the following day, ready to care for your furry friends.

⚠️ Please note: There will be NO feral walk-ins this day.

Thank you for understanding — and give your pets some extra cuddles for us! 💕🐶🐱

10/08/2025

🐾🚨 HELP! Our Pet Food Pantry is Running Low! 🚨🐾

We need your help to help those in need 💕

Our shelves are looking paw-fully bare, and we’re in desperate need of:
🐱 Wet & Dry Adult Cat Food
🐾 Wet & Dry Kitten Food
🐶 Wet & Dry Dog Food
🛍️ Quart & Gallon-Sized Bags (to help us portion out donations!)

Every can, every scoop, every bag makes a difference to a pet in need. 🐕🐈
Donations can be dropped off at Adoption First Animal Rescue during business hours — your kindness keeps tails wagging and bellies full! 💕

10/08/2025

We squeeezed this cutie in yesterday for emergency surgery. We are so happy to see her feeling so much better in just one day!

⚠️ GRAPHIC IMAGE WARNING ⚠️

We’re asking for donations to help this poor girl who found her way into one of our volunteer’s traps last night. Anything helps! ❤️‍🩹🙏🏻

CashApp
$IslandCatAlliesRocks

Venmo


PayPal
https://www.paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/4949773

Chewy wishlist
https://www.chewy.com/g/island-cat-allies_b92728049 -list&wishlistsortby=DEFAULT

Amazon wishlist
https://a.co/3XzZ2I6