Metro Animal Shelter

**The Shelter Dog Your Family Needs -- Meet Miss Giggles!**

Ready to toss out those feeling of loneliness?!? Ready to restart and recycle your happiness through the joy of canine companionship? Then you definitely need a dog like Miss Giggles in your home!

This sweet girl was found as a stray that had possibly been dumped, so we’d love to turn her life from trash to a real treasure - - and all it takes is one person saying “I can!” And while we seriously doubt that Miss Giggles can actually take your garbage out for you… but we do know that this pick of the litter can bring you lots of love and laughter!

Miss Giggles is a young female Doberman Pinscher (we are approximating 3 years old) and is currently available for adoption at the Metro Animal Shelter in Puyallup. Don’t waste any more time, we are open for meet & greets and adoptions until 3 p.m.!

"Meowtro Animal Shelter, can I help you?"

Our shelter is experiencing a huge increase in phone calls -- and many of them are misdirected, misinformed, or just plain mean.

We genuinely want to help you and your pets, but if you do not live in the cities that we serve, then we are very limited in what we can do to help. Our team can provide you with a list of resources and the contact information for the animal shelter that services where you live... but we cannot take animals from you.

Here is why: If you live within the city limits of Puyallup, Sumner, Bonney Lake, Pacific, Milton, Algona, and Edgewood, then you pay taxes to these cities. And these cities utilize your tax money to ensure that animal control and animal sheltering services are provided in your city limits through Metro Animal Services Shelter. So if you live in these 7 cities, that means our shelter can help you with stray animals and lost pets, and whenever possible we will also help with owner surrenders.

But if you live in the city limits of Tacoma, Lakewood, or in unincorporated Pierce County (outside city limits), then your tax dollars support animal sheltering services that are contracted by these jurisdictions through the Humane Society. We cannot take in animals that are from outside our jurisdiction, and our staff cannot answer questions about any other shelters' policies, capacities, or fees.

Please be kind when you call. Yelling does not help us to help you. We care about your pets and we know that you do too. Please know that we will do our very best to provide services if you are in our service area... and if you aren't in our service area, then we will direct you to the sheltering provider that is funded/operated by your tax dollars that are paid by you to your city or to the county.