Tucked inside the Mountaineer Mall on Green Bag Road is The Animal Friends Thrift Shoppe. Operated by Animal Friends of North Central West Virginia (AFNCWV), a local no-kill animal shelter, the shop offers bargains on a variety of new, antique, and gently used items donated by the ...
Giving pets as presents It’s a classic Christmas scene: The oddly large box under the tree (maybe with a few holes poked in it) that shivers and thumps, from which quiet barks or muffled mews emerge. The kids open it with a chorus of delighted squeals to reveal a puppy or kitten inside, ...
WVAQ’s Just Jaime will be “ruffin’” it (to borrow Erin Cleavenger’s pun) outside of The Glass Factory in Star City this weekend. She’ll be pitching her tent in the parking lot as part of the Camping for Canines fundraiser for Animal Friends of North-Central West ...
Six dogs rescued by a Monongalia County dog warden during the below-freezing temperatures of late December have begun their journey to a new life after a seemingly rough start. The story begins on Dec. 23, 2022, amidst one of the coldest weekends of the year, when Monongalia County Dog ...
Each year, the Monongalia County Canine Adoption Center (MCCAC) takes in over 1,000 potential pets with the hope of finding them forever homes. In a perfect world, they all would. For the past 20 years or so, the number of animal intakes at the county animal shelter have been ...
Just before 8:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, a small Piper Archer aircraft touched down on the tarmac at Hart Field at the Morgantown Municipal Airport. Nervously waiting on the runway was Katie, a 5-year-old boxer who was surrendered to the Monongalia County Canine Adoption Center (MCCAC) by ...