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Four kittens who have been in the care of Happy Tails Adoption Center adopted new families during our Saturday FREE adoption event at Tractor Supply in Center! 💙 A special thanks goes to our volunteers and staff for tak...

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Happy Trails to these 7 marvelous canines! They were all adopted during 2025 Bark-a-Rama 🐾

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Thanks to a dedicated staple of sponsors, volunteers, raffle donors and attendees Happy Tails Adoption Center was able to help seven dogs and pups adopt new families during Bark-A-Rama.\n

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We are so happy to wish these sweet fur babies Happy Trails!! They were all adopted at our most recent Live Adoption Event! Our hearts are bursting with love for them and appreciation for their new families.

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Y’all keep our sweet Luna in your thoughts and prayers. She will have her back leg amputated on Tuesday. She’s so loving. Luna will make a great dog for someone in a few months after she recovers. 💙

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Happy Trails to Kai (left), Cricket (middle) and Zuma (right). They all have been adopted by this wonderful family who can’t wait to give them loads of puppy love. Thank y’all so much for rescuing these babies.

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Thanks to 50 Women Impact for voting to make Happy Tails Adoption Center your fourth quarter grant recipient. This group is awesome and has made a huge positive impact on Shelby County!

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Happy Trails, Midnight! We are all in tears that you’re leaving us. But we’re just so happy that you found your furever home. 🏡🐾

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A huge thanks to all who helped make The 2nd Annual Howl-O-Ween event a family and four-legged fun experience!

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Happy Tails shared a need and our Shelby County community came through IN A GINORMOUS WAY! Once again, this happened… more than a thousand pounds of dog has been purchased, delivered, shipped or dropped off to Happy Tail...

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Our Happy Tails fosters are the best! Tammie Luman is a prime example of the caring and dedicated volunteers who are making a positive difference in the Center/Shelby County animal welfare environment. Three kittens had ...

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Happy Trails to our sweet Izzy!! We’re so excited for her and her new family.

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Happy Trails to these sweet pups!! We’re so happy for them and their new parents 🐾💚💙

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Meet Dandi Dog! 🐾 This elusive husky has been around town for at least a year. Happy Tails has been trying to help her but we could never catch her.

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Raise your paws for a big applause! 🐾🐾

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We loved seeing all of the smiling faces at Saturday’s open house and live adoption event! Nine dogs and one kitten adopted their new furever families while guests were able to tour the Happy Tails facility and grounds. ...

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What an amazing past two weeks these have been. It was two weeks ago today (July 20th), that a trailer filled with 10 stressed, scared and excited dogs were delivered by Center Police Department to the care of Happy Tail...

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Thanks to all who took time out of your busy schedules to attend the noon public information session hosted by Happy Tails Adoption Center on Monday, July 29.

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Among the many community partnerships that Happy Tails has developed over the past 18 months is a strong one with Tractor Supply in Center. They came through again on Tuesday morning with a car full of pet food and suppl...

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Happy Tails announces public meeting, unveiling of shelter master plan!

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Lots of y’all have reached out regarding how to help us and/or what supplies we need. All of you are pawsome 🐾 Below are a few items that you may not have thought about donating. But trust us. We will value them. You ...

","url":"https://happytailsadoptioncentertx.org/htac-stories/f/you-are-pawsome-%F0%9F%90%BE","title":"You are pawsome 🐾","summary":"Lots of y’all have reached out regarding how to help us and/or what supplies we need. All of you are pawsome 🐾 Below are a few items that you may not have thought about donating. But trust us. We will value them. You ...","date_modified":"2024-07-26T20:49:02Z"},{"id":"https://happytailsadoptioncentertx.org/htac-stories/f/operation-save-em-all","html_content":"

Happy Tails is now proudly playing host to the last 9 dogs that were in the care of the city of Center’s police department.

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The all-volunteer Happy Tails Adoption Center crew wants to pass along a huge PAWS UP 🐾 thanks to Tractor Supply in Center for their recent donation of several hundred pounds of pet food and supplies along for their all...

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Meet Louis 🐾

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Happy Trails to Brody and his new mommy!! Brody’s original foster mom was in a tragic accident. So this young lady stepped in as Brody’s new foster mom.

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These sweet little muffin faces got adopted today in Victoria. A very kind man reached out to us the other day about them being dumped at his house. He didn’t want to leave them alone so he took them to work with him in ...

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Our sweet Linus was picked up last month on the loop her in Center by one of our board members. She stopped traffic to get him from the side of the road!

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Happy paws, everyone!! We always like sharing good news. Here’s a great story:

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