Henry County, Georgia Animal Care and Control

12/07/2025

🎄 What a Magical Weekend at Henry County Animal Care & Control! 🎄

December 6–7 was nothing short of extraordinary. Our holiday adoption event was overflowing with joy, gratitude, community spirit…and a little bit of birthday magic. ✨

🐾 13 Animals Found Loving Homes!
(Yes, 6 + 7 on Supervisor Bert’s 67th birthday! We think the universe planned that one. 😉)

Among those who left the building with new beginnings:
✨ Lovely, our resilient cruelty case survivor, who walked out 50 pounds healthier and with a whole new future ahead of her. Watching that gentle (now giant!) girl go home will forever stay with us.
✨ Ham, one of our beloved bowling-ball puppies, went home with a beautiful family—complete with many new brothers for endless romping!
✨ Jovi, the tender-hearted Great Pyrenees, whose family fell in love with her online and drove all the way from Virginia to bring her home. Her future just got a whole lot brighter.

🐱 8 Cats Adopted! Most of Them Adults!
This is huge for us. Our cat room was completely full this week, and seeing so many adult kitties chosen and loved gives us hope and a little breathing room. Thank you for choosing to adopt the often-overlooked adults who make the very best companions. ❤️

☕ A Heartfelt Thank You to Our Community Partners
💙 To our wonderful vendors who braved the chill to bring holiday cheer, thank you!
💙 To Henry County Animal Initiative, thank you for the free hot chocolate and for stepping up to educate and support a citizen doing TNR entirely alone. Efforts like yours prevent unwanted litters, reduce stray populations, and make our community kinder for animals and people alike.
💙 To Friends of Henry Animals, your magical Santa photo setup in our barn brought smiles, families, and meaningful conversations to our shelter. You truly brought the holiday spirit to life.
🎄 And a Special Thank You to Commissioner Michael Price for visiting, supporting our mission, and championing the animals and people of Henry County.

This weekend was a beautiful reminder of what happens when a community comes together, lives change. ❤️
From all of us at Henry County Animal Care & Control:
Thank you for spreading the word, showing up, adopting, donating, volunteering, and caring.
The magic continues because you make it possible. ✨🐾

12/06/2025

Thank you so much to everyone who came out today for our Holiday Pawty ❤️
We couldn’t wait to share all of these precious moments with y’all! Please enjoy every single goodest boy and perfectest girl who sat so sweetly with the Clauses🎄
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To recap our day, 13 of our shelter pets made Santa’s “Furever Home” list! That means that 5 more pups and 8 more cats were saved just in time for Christmas. Our hearts are absolutely full here. ✨🐾
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🎁We reopen Monday @ 8:30AM, ready to keep the adoption spirit alive! Stop by and let’s create even more Christmas miracles together.🎁
527 Hampton St.
McDonough, Ga

12/06/2025

Rain or shine, it’s still a winter wonderland here at HCACC 🎄🐾
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We’re open until 3PM today for Santa photos, our holiday market, and of course, to meet our amazing adoptable pets 🥹❤️
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527 Hampton St.
McDonough, Ga

12/05/2025

🎄✨ HOLIDAY MARKET TOMORROW at Henry County Animal Care & Control! ✨🎄

Get ready, Henry County — tomorrow is our big Holiday Market, and you are officially invited to join the festive fun right here at the shelter! ❤️🐾

🎅 What’s Happening?
🍫 Hot Chocolate Stand – warm up with a cozy cup!
📸 Pictures with Mr. & Mrs. Claus – bring your pets and camera for the cutest holiday photos ever!
🛍️ Local Vendor Market – shop gifts, treats, crafts, and more!
🐶🐱 Adoptable Pets – meet your new best friend just in time for the holidays!

🎁 SPECIAL HOLIDAY ADOPTION RATES!
As part of the celebration, we’ll be offering reduced adoption costs all day long. There is no better time to welcome home a furry friend.
Whether you're looking to shop, sip, smile, or adopt we have something magical for everyone.

Come by, bring the family, bring your pets, and help us spread the holiday cheer! 🎄🐾❤️
📍 Henry County Animal Care & Control
📅 Tomorrow 12-3pm
We can’t wait to celebrate the season with you! 🎅✨

12/05/2025

🎉 A VERY SPECIAL BIRTHDAY IS COMING UP🎉
Please join us in celebrating our incredible Kennel Supervisor, Bert Merchant! 💙🐾
At 67 years young (and don’t even try to make any “6–7” jokes… he absolutely will not get them 😄), Supervisor Merchant continues to outwork people half his age. Slowing down? Not even an option. His passion for animal care, and for the people of Henry County, still shines just as brightly as it did his first day here.

For 18 years, Bert has been a cornerstone of Henry County Animal Care and Control. Under his guidance, countless lives have been saved. His experience has been pivotal to see the shelter through challenges, heartbreaks, triumphs, and transformations. And through it all, he has remained what he has always been:
A voice for the voiceless.
A steady presence for the forgotten.
A champion for those who need one most.

Before joining animal control, Bert worked as a maintenance supervisor in an assisted living home. Helping those who were often overlooked came naturally to him, his warm smile and comforting nature were a gift to every resident he met. The move into animal welfare was effortless. It was just who he is. Caring for the vulnerable isn’t something he learned; it’s something he embodies.

Today, he continues to bring that same compassion to every dog, cat, coworker, volunteer, and citizen he encounters. He is the first to step up, one of the last to leave, and the person you can always count on. Bert also proudly serves as a Henry County Ambassador, giving a voice to employees across the county and working toward solutions that help us all.
Supervisor Merchant’s dedication has shaped this shelter in ways words can barely express. His work ethic, kindness, and unwavering commitment have made Henry County a better place, both for the animals and the people who love them.
🐾 Bert, thank you for giving so much of your heart to this community.
🐾 Thank you for all the lives you’ve touched and changed.
🐾 We are so lucky to have you.
Please join us in wishing him the happiest, warmest, most well-deserved HAPPY BIRTHDAY tomorrow at our adoption event, because where else would he be but here?! 🎂💙🎈

12/03/2025

EDIT: 4 cat adoptions yesterday! Let’s keep the momentum going! 💙

🚨 URGENT: CAT SPACE CRISIS 🚨
Henry County Animal Care & Control
Even after 14 cats were rescued last week, today brought 17 new feline intakes, and we are officially urgent on cat space once again. Kitten season never really ended for us, and every open kennel we fight to create is filled just as quickly.
If you’ve been thinking about adopting… today is the day.
If you have room in your heart and home… we truly need you.
Every adoption quite literally saves two lives—the one who goes home and the one who now has a safe place to land.

❤️ Adoption Fees:
• Adult Cats: $35
• Kittens: $65
ALSO BUY ONE GET ONE FREE
🐾 Hours: M-F 830-430p with a short lunch 12-1230
We will also be open this Saturday, 12–3 PM for adoptions!
Please share, please tag a friend, and please consider adopting. Our cats, and our shelter team, are counting on our community right now. 🐱💕y

12/03/2025

📣Let’s talk about the FIX to the animal overpopulation crisis. 📣
And yes… there is a fix. But first, we need to talk about the reality.

Every year in the United States, over 6 million animals enter shelters.
That is far more pets than there are available homes. And when shelters run out of space, staff, or resources, the result is heartbreaking: Space euthanasia.
The number one killer of dogs and cats in this country is not heart disease.
It’s not cancer.
It’s not age.
It’s space.
Space euthanasia kills more pets than heart disease, cancer, and every other medical condition combined.
Not because they are “bad pets,”
Not because they are “unhealthy,”
But simply because there are too many.

But here’s the good news…
⭐ We already have the answer!
And the answer is simple, proven, and lifesaving: spay and neuter!

Spay/Neuter saves lives in more ways than one:
🐾 Medical benefits–
Spaying eliminates the risk of deadly pyometra.
It reduces or eliminates breast, ovarian, testicular, and prostate cancers.
Neutering stops roaming behaviors linked to injuries and fights.
🐾 Hit-by-car statistics don’t lie
Intact male dogs are the highest-risk group for getting hit by vehicles.
Studies show they make up the majority of dogs injured or killed by cars.
Why? Because testosterone drives them to escape, roam, and track females in heat—sometimes traveling miles.
🐾 Unwanted litters are the biggest contributor to shelter overcrowding
One unspayed female, her mate, and their offspring can produce dozens of puppies in just a few years. Most of these puppies will eventually enter the shelter system.

Today alone at Henry County Animal Care & Control:
✨ We spayed and neutered 14 animals.
That’s 14 animals who will never contribute to pet overpopulation.
That’s 14 steps toward ending preventable euthanasia.
And today?
❤️ We had 2 adoptions.
As wonderful as those two adoptions are, and trust us, they mean the world, we can never adopt our way out of this crisis.
Adoption helps animals already here.
Spay and neuter prevents the next generation from suffering the same fate.
We need both.

But prevention is the ONLY way we will ever change the future of animal welfare.
There is hope.
Across the country, states are beginning to recognize the urgency.
Grant programs are emerging.
Veterinarians are being incentivized to help.
High-volume spay/neuter models are expanding.
But we still need community buy-in.

We need you.
If your pet is unaltered, please consider scheduling a spay/neuter appointment. If you’ve already done your part, consider “spaying it forward” by donating to organizations like Friends of Henry Animals, who assist families in crisis every single day.
Together, we can fix what feels unfixable.
And it all starts with one simple, powerful decision:
Spay. Neuter. Save lives.
Tell us below if you have any concerns that stop you from spaying/neutering your pets! We will do our best to address them ❤️

12/02/2025

🎄✨ Meet Kringle! ✨🎄
If Christmas magic could take the shape of a dog… it would look a whole lot like this handsome boy.
Kringle is an absolutely adorable Airedale mix with the kind of charm that could light up a whole tree. He’s loving, affectionate, and has that warm, gentle spirit that makes you want to wrap your arms around him like a cozy holiday blanket.
Whether he’s leaning into you for snuggles, wagging his tail like it’s ringing tiny Christmas bells, or giving you that soft, soulful gaze—Kringle is the kind of dog who reminds you what the season is all about: joy, warmth, and unconditional love.
🎁 Kringle’s Christmas Wish:
A family to call his own. Someone to share morning zoomies, evening cuddles, and maybe even a stocking hung just for him.
If you’re looking to add a little extra magic to your home this holiday season, Kringle is ready to make your days merry and bright—not just for Christmas, but for all the years to come. ❤️
📍 Come meet Kringle at Henry County Animal Care and Control!
Let’s make his holiday wish come true. 🎅🐾✨

12/01/2025

✨ Today Was Pure Magic at Henry County Animal Care & Control! ✨

Some days just take your breath away… and today was one of them.

Our long-time residents, Seyven and Stevie, were adopted… TOGETHER! 🥹❤️ Watching them walk out side-by-side into their new lives was the kind of moment that reminds us exactly why we do this.

If you’ve been following us for a while, you might remember the special kind of magic that sparks when we start spaying/neutering animals in preparation for a Saturday adoption event. Back in October, we’d sterilize animals to get ready and the very next day, they were ALL adopted. Not once… not twice… but four days in a row! We were absolutely flabbergasted. 🪄💫

Well… the magic is BACK. ✨
Today we had 7 dogs on our surgery list.
➡️ 2 already have confirmed rescues
➡️ 2 were adopted right at the end of the day
It feels like the universe is cheering these animals on.

And that wasn’t all, our community SHOWED UP. Today we received an amazing outpouring of donations, including:
🎁 Cat toys & treats
🎁 A huge gift box filled with blankets and towels
🎁 A party box of Christmas toys ready to make tails wag all December long

We are overwhelmed (in the best way) by the kindness, generosity, and love from our community. Thank you for believing in our animals, in our mission, and in the magic that happens when we all come together. ❤️🐾
Here’s to even more miracles ahead. ✨

12/01/2025

EDIT: Bindi was spayed yesterday! She is ready for same day adoption whenever her family comes.

✨ Meet Bindi! ✨
7 months old • Healed & Ready • Pure Sunshine in Dog Form 💛

When Bindi first arrived at Henry County Animal Care & Control, she was a heartbreaking sight, malnourished, mange-ridden, and limping. But her spirit? Untouched. Unshaken. Unbelievably bright.

Thanks to the incredible support of Friends of Henry Animals, Bindi received an x-ray… and what we saw shattered us.
💔 A broken pelvis.

Yet if you looked at her tail-wagging smile, you’d never guess she was in excruciating pain. Bindi was so thrilled simply to be around people that she pushed her discomfort aside just to show love.

With pain meds, crate rest, and a whole lot of hope, her skin healed… and her pelvis did too. Today, Bindi is the epitome of a good dog happy, gentle, loyal, and full of life.

But once again, we worry.
Bindi is a black dog in a county shelter. And dogs like her are too often overlooked.
We’re begging you to see what we see:
🌟 A resilient girl with a heart made of gold
🌟 A pup who wants nothing more than a family & doggie friends!
🌟 A dog who has overcome the worst and still loves the best

Bindi is ready to experience life; adventures, cuddles, car rides, and a home where someone finally puts her first. We love her dearly. And we know someone out there will love her just as fiercely. 🖤
Please come meet Bindi. Let her shine for you, the way she shines for us.

📍 Henry County Animal Care & Control
📞 770-288-7387
🐾 Adoptions Mon–Fri and this Saturday 12-3!ye

11/28/2025

11/27/2025

✨ A Moment of Gratitude ✨

While we are thrilled to celebrate our recent success in adoption rates, we want to take a moment to highlight the quiet heroes who have been standing with us long before these numbers began to rise.

For years, our rescue partners, and especially Friends of Henry Animals, have cultivated relationships that have helped place thousands of animals into loving homes. Their dedication has carried us through some of our hardest days and our hardest cases. When an animal is too sick, too injured, or too fragile to survive in a shelter environment, these rescues are the ones who step up without hesitation.

They are the ones who say yes when every option feels impossible.
They are the ones who take on thousands in medical expenses.
They are the ones who spend sleepless nights bottle feeding, medicating, comforting, and fighting for the animals who need a little extra help.

And for that, we are endlessly grateful. ❤️
We also want to extend a very special thank you to our Volunteer rescue coordinator, Betsy. Betsy has devoted a lifetime—truly, a lifetime—to saving pets in Henry County. She not only provides lifesaving financial support for shelter animals but is also a critical resource for pets in the community. She routinely pays for spay/neuter services for owned animals, ensuring they stay safe, stay home, and do not contribute to overpopulation. Her compassion has created ripples of impact far beyond the walls of our shelter.

To our rescue partners, Friends of Henry Animals, and to Betsy—
Thank you for standing with us. Thank you for fighting alongside us. Thank you for helping us save lives every single day.
We couldn’t do this without you. 🐾💙💚a