Homeless pets

 It’s that time of year when all of us are scurrying around looking for the perfect Christmas gifts for family, loved ones and our pets.

Coastal Animal Rescue asks that you please remember the many abandoned pets who are awaiting permanent, loving homes like yours.  Lost jobs and home foreclosures continue to cause people to tearfully surrender their pets.  Other pets have been surrendered because the owner no longer has the income to properly care for them.

This Christmas season as you shop for your treasured pet, please consider adding a bag of cat food to your cart for those in our care as they await adoption.    Not one morsel would be wasted and you’d know exactly how your donation would be used.

Coastal Animal Rescue is a no-kill non-profit shelter for abandoned and homeless animals where -- after spaying and neutering -- they live in a cage-free environment until they are adopted into loving, permanent homes.

Coastal Animal Rescue is a non-profit shelter in Murrells Inlet staffed 100% by volunteers; not one person is paid.  It is a Federal and State certified charity and all donations are tax-deductible under the Internal Revenue Code section 501©(3).

Bags of Purina Kitten or Cat Chow and Friskies canned cat food can be dropped off at one of two locations:  Sandy Paws Pet Grooming  in Murrells Inlet (455-1126) or Pawleys Pets in Pawleys Island (237-7387)   See our website, coastalanimalrescue.org or call 685-2851.

All of the volunteers at Coastal Animal Rescue wish you and your families a blessed and wonderful holiday season, and sincerely thank you for your consideration of the animals in our care.

 Karen Nierengarten