All4Paws Animal Rescue WRITTEN BY: A LY S S A H E L M S , Social Media Manager
Lowcountry Dog began Rescue Spotlights in 2016, and I am ecstatic to be bringing them back to our readers. These pieces highlight rescues one by one, giving them each the spotlight they deserve! By doing these, we allow the community to get an inside look into all the rescues we feature, a great way to promote volunteering, adopting, fostering, and donating. We kicked off a new series of spotlights last issue with telling you all about the new Berkeley Animal Center and this issue, I’ll be talking about All4Paws Animal Rescue located on Pawleys Island, SC. After speaking with founding director Allison Gillespie and visiting the shelter, I saw first hand how important each individual animal was to her and to everyone who works in the facility. The mission of All4Paws is to get each animal who comes into the rescue back to health and adopted into a loving home.. All4Paws Animal Rescue focuses on mainly dogs and cats, and the majority of the animals at their shelter and foster homes come from overflowing shelters with high euthanasia rates. This rescue was started back in 2012 with the founders filling their own homes with rescues. After they grew too big for this, they bought the property where they currently house over 30 dogs and 30 cats, and they are always full. Now, All 4 Paws gets around 1,200 animals into homes annually. With the 10th anniversary of All4Paws coming up in 2022, Gillespie is overflowing with ideas for the shelter. “It is always improving and only getting
bigger and better.” says Gillespie. They turned a simple house into a no-kill animal rescue with a training yard, indoor and outdoor pens, an entire cat wing/room/sanctuary, and an on-site Clinic In A Can! They are currently working on making a new quiet room that will be used for meet and greets, finishing their admin offices, and getting a clinic X-Ray machine. They are making constant renovations and improvements to the facility to benefit the animals, the people that work and volunteer, and those who come in to see the animals and adopt. The latest edition to the rescue is the “Clinic in a Can.” This medical facility was built inside 3 shipping containers and sets just across the street from the main building. It gives them the ability to treat and better care for their rescues. Now, instead of driving with vans full of animals to go as far as Mount Pleasant to get them vetted, they can just walk right across their lot! All 4 Paws has a veterinarian who comes on-site three days a week or more. They can now make sure their animals are spayed and neutered to prevent the needless euthanization we face due to overpopulation. This new facility has given them a 53 percent increase in surgical capacity! They also have a huge training yard where volunteers
