Physical Address: 3528 Newburg Rd Louisville, KY 40218

Donation Remittance Address: PO Box 950283 Louisville, KY 40295-0283

(502) 574-5667

Supporting Our Community’s Lost and Abandoned Pets

FOMAS serves as an ambassador for public education, community-wide collaboration, and fundraising for Metro Animal Services.

MAS State of the Art Shelter

The facility is large enough to fit MANY animals.

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MAS Shelter

  • Capacity: 150 Dog Kennels, 83 Cat Kennels
  • Play Yards: 9
  • ½-mile walking trail
  • 4 stall livery
  • Full veterinary surgical suite
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The Harshaw Family

Foundation Animal Shelter

In 2019, FOMAS helped to fund the Harshaw Family Foundation Animal Shelter, a full animal care campus, located on Newburg Road, adjacent to the MAS adoption facility, Animal House. This facility allows MAS to provide ultimate efficiencies in receiving and treating animals in an up-to-date medical treatment center, and adopting pets in a sterile, clean environment.

2023

Animals Entered the Shelter

8,492

Adoptions

2,649

Animals Returned to Owner

1,215

Animals Sent to Rescue

1,007

Community Cats Returned to the Field

2,455

Live Release Rate

92.92%

2022

Animals Entered the Shelter

8,070

Adoptions

2,639

Animals Returned to Owner

1,313

Animals Sent to Rescue

987

Community Cats Returned to the Field

2,233

Live Release Rate

96%

2021

Animals Entered the Shelter

7,024

Adoptions

2,598

Animals Returned to Owner

1,064 

Animals Sent to Rescue

769

Community Cats Returned to the Field

1,968

Live Release Rate

95%

2020

Animals Entered the Shelter

5,524

Adoptions

2,253

Animals Returned to Owner

945

Animals Sent to Rescue

536

Community Cats Returned to the Field

1,254

Live Release Rate

95%

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Happy Tails

A little update on one of the best boys, former long-stay champion Pawtucket!


As soon as we met him in the play yard, we were instantly in love. My husband even accidentally said, "give daddy that rope!" And from that moment we knew he was coming home with us. We adopted him after he had spent almost six months in the shelter and had been returned by two other families. We were definitely warned that he had a LOT of energy, and a little wild and wooly, but we were ok with that. I remember the first day we brought him home he basically levitated and was standing with all four legs on top of the kitchen table! 

We learned quickly that he is incredibly smart (in some cases too smart), and he quickly picked up on simple commands like sit and stay and down and off. He loves to chase balls (and deer), sniff EVERYTHING, and will fall over in happiness if a stranger just makes eye contact with him. He loves life and loves adventures and is just 100 percent goodness. 

We enrolled him in a beginner's obedience class and he graduated! We moved up to advanced beginners and Pawtucket has learned to heel and even jump over a jump completely off leash. He loves going to school so we are doing rally classes and plan on starting agility classes. We hope to compete soon! 


There were definitely a lot of happy tears and cheers the day we adopted him, and I remember all of the staff happily exclaiming, "is Pawtucket finally going home?!" And he still refuses to shred his teddy bear that his shelter friend Haleigh gave him. - Leslie

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