General Information
Pawmetto Lifeline was created in 1999 as Project Pet, community-based, people/pet project founded by volunteers from four local animal welfare organizations who joined to humanely reduce pet overpopulation in the Midlands through innovative, pro-active programs.
In August 2010, we broke ground on a comprehensive no-kill pet shelter/adoption center and changed our name to better reflect the next stage in our efforts to give homeless animals hope for a better tomorrow.
Pawmetto Lifeline is a 501(C)(3) organization located in Columbia, SC.
Our goals:
- Create a no-kill community in the South Carolina Midlands so that no healthy (or treatable), adoptable pets are euthanized in municipal shelters
- Develop and execute comprehensive community spay/neuter programs that reach out to all areas
- Build a no-kill companion pet shelter/adoption center in Columbia, South Carolina
- Increase pet ownership and retention
- Initiate educational programs that define the problem, prioritize the resources, and find the solutions
- Propose and support legislation to protect companion pets
- Find uninformed owners and intervene with appropriate education and assistance before their pets become history
- Develop pet/people therapy programs throughout the community
- Curtail amateur and backyard breeding
- Ensure that every microchipped pet that gets lost finds its way back home
- Develop programs to care for sick and injured companion pets
