Pet Help in the Charleston Area

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In Charleston and need help now? For an emergency, go to one of the emergency vets below and tell them if cost is a barrier. To lower costs, start with the spay/neuter programs and low-cost clinics. For a bill you can’t cover, get a free funding plan.

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Emergency and urgent care

• Kanawha Valley Veterinary Emergency Hospital (KVVEH)
  5304 MacCorkle Ave SW, South Charleston, WV 25309 · (304) 768-2911
  Independent after-hours emergency hospital for dogs and cats serving the Kanawha Valley on nights, weekends and holidays. When the ICU and triage are full, the hospital may pause service or divert cases to the next nearest hospital.

Spay, neuter and vouchers

• Kanawha-Charleston Humane Association Feral Cat TNR Program
  1246 Greenbrier Street, Charleston, WV 25311 · (304) 342-5660
  KCHA serves healthy feral and free-roaming cats through Trap-Neuter-Return under its Feral Cat Protection Policy and does not impound feral cats for euthanasia or rehoming. Affordable spay/neuter for feral cats is done at KCHA's public clinic, Fix Charleston: cats are spayed or neutered, vaccinated against rabies, ear-tipped and returned to their colony.
• West Virginia Spay and Neuter Assistance Program (WVSNP) - Grantee List
  Statewide (through county grantees) · (304) 558-3550
  State program run by the WV Department of Agriculture and funded by pet food registration fees; it grants money to local humane groups, rescues and governments that pay for spay/neuter plus a rabies shot for owners' pets. The program does not work with individuals, so you contact a grantee on the list for your county (it lists address, counties served and phone).

Low-cost clinics and vaccines

• Fix Charleston (Kanawha-Charleston Humane Association Clinic)
  1246 Greenbrier Street, Charleston, WV 25311 · (304) 342-5660
  Kanawha-Charleston Humane Association's low-cost spay/neuter and wellness clinic for cats and dogs, offering spay/neuter, vaccines, parasite preventatives, microchips, sick pet exams, lab work, x-rays and dental care, plus an online pharmacy. Proceeds benefit shelter pets.
• The Fix'Em Clinic (Charleston Regional Spay Neuter Center)
  102 Dee Drive · (866) 349-3698
  Nonprofit low-cost spay/neuter clinic open to everyone regardless of income or residency, with daily walk-in wellness hours for vaccines and preventive care, and low-cost community cat (TNR) surgery; a WVSNP grantee for Kanawha, Boone, Clay, Lincoln, Putnam, Raleigh and Roane counties. Cash or cards accepted (no CareCredit or checks).

Keeping your pet, end-of-life care and pet loss

• Kanawha-Charleston Humane Association (KCHA) Animal Shelter
  1248 Greenbrier Street, Charleston, WV 25311 · (304) 342-1576
  Animal shelter in Charleston offering adoption, foster care, stray and lost and found services, rehoming help, and cruelty and neglect response through its humane officers. KCHA also runs the Fix Charleston low-cost spay/neuter and wellness clinic next door.
• Kanawha-Charleston Humane Association Animal Control and Cruelty Reports
  Unincorporated Kanawha County, Glasgow and East Bank · 304-342-1576 ext. 118
  KCHA handles animal control and neglect complaints in all unincorporated parts of Kanawha County and the towns of Glasgow and East Bank, and investigates reports of abandoned, neglected or mistreated animals. Does not pick up healthy community cats or kittens.
• Putnam County Animal Shelter
  12908 Charleston Rd, Red House, WV 25168 · (304) 586-0249
  County animal shelter that handles adoptions and manages animal control and neglect complaints within Putnam County. It does not pick up healthy community cats or kittens.

Paying for a bigger bill

Apply to more than one assistance program at a time. Ways to pay a vet bill in West Virginia lists the programs that are open now, and a free funding plan puts them together for your pet, with a free fundraiser page if you want one.

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