Mission
To create a humane culture for companion animals by partnering with people to promote animal wellness by providing access to affordable care, adoptions, surrenders, and striving to be progressive, responsible leaders in the animal welfare community.

Values Statement
Embrace integrity, compassion, and transparency in all aspects of our mission and vision.

Crossroads Animal Shelter Intake Policy
Crossroads Animal Shelter is a 501, c.3 Limited Admission Shelter Facility.  Crossroads Animal Shelter utilizes managed intake that is determined by our available space, staffing, and resources available. All intake is done by appointment only.

Why Managed Intake?  
Managed Intake ensures that as an organization we can provide the necessary standard of care to an animal as it arrives in our facility.

Through the Managed Intake approach, Crossroads (CAS) is better able to dedicate our limited resources to the animals and people most in need. Prior to Managed Intake, our shelter operated at or above capacity in terms of space and staffing availability. These challenges compromised CAS ability to provide a full range of services to optimize animal care and meet the needs of the public.

With Managed Intake, animals receive better care given CAS capacity, and people receive more personalized attention to their animal issues.
Managed Intake is a thoughtful and intentional policy to create the best outcomes for all animals while valuing the human-animal bond.

CAS will continue to refine and adjust our practices as circumstances warrant and is grateful for the support as we work together to create communities where every animal receives compassionate care.

• Impound Services
  Crossroads does not provide impound services. Please contact your local government or law enforcement authority.
  
  

• Found a stray
  Please do not remove the animal from the location where it was found. Contact the local law government or enforcement.  After you contact your local authorities - If you would like to inquire about Crossroads stray services, please email info@crossroadsshelter.org for how we may be able to help.
  
  

• Surrender
  If you are looking to surrender your companion animal, please go to our services tab and scroll down to “Owner Surrender” Click on “Surrender a Pet” to begin the process. Please understand that this is a process and will take time.

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Crossroads Animal Shelter - Position on Euthanasia
Crossroads Animal Shelter (CAS) does not euthanize animals for age, space, or time.

Placement Rate

·       2024-97.7%

·       2023 98.7%

·       2022-96.4%

·       2021-94.7%

·       2020-94.2%

*Calculated total placements divided by total intakes subtracting out owner-requested euthanasia services.

Is Crossroads Animal Shelter a “No Kill” shelter?
“No kill” does not mean no euthanasia. As an organization, we elect not to embrace this language and terminology as it is frequently misunderstood and negatively applied to the work that is done in the animal welfare community. If you are using the term “no kill” it is likely that you are using it incorrectly.

The benchmark for “no-kill” is 90% placement rate. However, this is not as simple as it seems. “No-kill“ has multiple definitions: No euthanasia at all, euthanasia only for the untreatable, or those who fall within the one-to-10%. The term lacks a consistent definition with no governing body, which leads to confusion and division among people, and animal shelters bear the weight of its terminology. In our opinion, it takes the focus off animal care and onto sustaining percentages.

There are many variables that affect an animal’s quality of life, and if we cannot relieve their suffering, we will not let the pressure of adhering to a certain percentage force us to prolong their pain.  The guiding principle in the provision of humane care should always be the animal’s needs, regardless of where that organization stands in that statistical definition of no-kill.

The bottom line is that we evaluate each animal based on their individual needs and our access to resources that fulfill those needs, while providing high quality care.  Put simply, their needs come above all else, arbitrary numbers and terminology aside. CAS is proud of our dedicated team of Animal care Technicians, Veterinary staff, Adoption specialists, Volunteers and Rescue partners and all of the work that is done on a daily to provide the best possible care and to make decisions for all animals base on their individual needs.