We are excited to invite rescues, shelters, fosters, animal controls, volunteers, and advocates from across North Mississippi to our next Animal Rescue Regional Gathering.
In October, many of us joined Cara Achterberg and others from Who Will Let the Dogs Out? to talk honestly about the realities facing dogs and cats in our region. Mississippi has no formal animal welfare system. What we have is a patchwork of nonprofit shelters, small municipal pounds, rescue groups, and animal control teams who do everything they can with the little they are given. Some communities have strong support. Others are fighting every day just to keep animals alive. And in the smallest rural pounds, dogs and cats wait with almost no visibility at all.
We also talked about the people behind the work. The burnout. The pressure. The emotional load. The way rescues carry both the victories and the heartbreaks. These conversations made one thing clear. We are stronger when we stand together.
PopFix is honored to host the next gathering on
Saturday, December 13th at 5 PM
Guy’s Place on the water
641 Joe Wheeler Brown Road
Fulton, MS 38843
This will be a time for connection, collaboration, and celebration of everything we accomplished throughout 2025. We will explore data sharing, joint grant opportunities, creative partnerships, and ways to better support each other in this work. We will also begin looking toward 2026 and beyond, talking openly about what a more unified approach could look like, what we want the future of animal rescue in North Mississippi to be, and how we can build it together.
Guy's place on the water has generously offered free drinks and appetizers to everyone who attends as their way of supporting the rescuers who serve our communities’ most vulnerable animals.
RSVP here:
https://tinyurl.com/popfixms
If you are part of a rescue, shelter, foster network, animal control team, TNR group, or any animal welfare effort, we would love to have you join us. Come connect. Come share. Come breathe a little easier knowing you are not alone. Together, we can build something stronger for the dogs, cats, and rescuers of North Mississippi.
