Charleston Animal Society

No kill south carolinain 2016, this project was launched to build the first no kill state in the southern united states, from atlantic to pacific ocean, and america's heartland, to create a place where every healthy and treatable dog and cat has a home. This project is intended to save healthy and treatable animals throughout south carolina as measured by achieving a 10% or less euthanasia rate across sc's 46 counties. Since its inception, upward of 1 million lives have been saved in sc's animal shelters. In 2024, this statewide initiative (1) organized the largest annual statewide dog and cat adoption event in the country resulting in over 2,500 adoptions, various (2) emergency shelter transports that moved 598 animals from 63 emergency rescue operations, (3) shelter health consultations, and (4) assistance with large cruelty law enforcement operations, all of which resulted in a statewide no kill south carolina lifesaving rate of 90%.