Tag: LifeLine Animal Project
“On every call, I prepare for a bite”: Fulton County Animal Services’ mission to protect Atlanta’s pets
Jessica Lawton had recently started her job as a field service officer with Fulton County Animal Services in 2022. The job is part law enforcement, part animal caretaker. Lawton responds to calls for the stray, sick, and injured; cases of abandonment, pet hoarding, and cruelty; and instances of distressed, trapped, or vicious animals.
25 Ways to Thrive in 2025
It’s January: a month to reset, reflect, and renew. To help you out, we’ve compiled a list of 25 ways in Atlanta to get moving, get creative, or just get started on a new hobby. You don’t have to change your whole life to kick-start something amazing in 2025: A new pet friend, a ballroom dance class, or a volunteer gardening project could be just the spark you need to make this a year to remember.
Due to flood risk, Lifeline Animal Project asks for help fostering or adopting dogs from old Fulton shelter
Atlanta shelter Lifeline Animal Project sent out a call for help across social media today, asking Atlantans to consider temporarily fostering or adopting 60 dogs currently housed at the facility's former shelter at 860 Marietta Boulevard Northwest. The shelter says the building has a history of flooding and is concerned about floods with Hurricane Helene's impending arrival.
Finally some good news: Atlantans are adopting so many pets that one rescue group can hardly keep up
In a month-long period ending April 13, LifeLine had tallied 925 adoptions and 946 foster placements (1,871 animals total) at its three facilities, trouncing the tally for the entirety of March and April last year by about 200 pets.
Want to spend Friday night playing with a shelter dog? You can have one delivered.
LifeLine Animal Project has teamed up with food delivery service Zifty for #LoveDelivered, an event where people are invited to book a one-hour playtime session with an adoptable dog from an Atlanta shelter.
10 ways to volunteer and give back in metro Atlanta this Thanksgiving season
From delivering Thanksgiving meals to fostering a homeless dog, here are a few ways you can volunteer this holiday season in metro Atlanta.
Welcome to Ratlanta: What to know about the rodents next door
Have you met your neighbors? Their names are Rattus norvegicus and Rattus rattus, and metro Atlanta is teeming with them.
As two Atlanta animal shelters launch expansions, here’s how you can give back
Both LifeLine Animal Project and PAWS Atlanta are launching expansion projects to continue providing low-cost pet welfare services to the community. So how can you give back to them? (Hint: Some of them involve beer.)
97 dogs were rescued from hoarding in south Fulton. Now, many are ready for adoption.
On December 3, nearly 100 dogs were rescued from a house fire in south Fulton County, the apparent victims of an animal hoarding situation. The 20 that remained at the Fulton County shelter are now ready to find a new home.
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