Is it legal to chain a dog outside all day in your NC county? We checked all 100. 12 limit how long or whether a dog can be chained, 46 only set equipment rules, 36 have no county rule. Photo: Melody. Find your county, link in our profile.

🐶 Pet of the day: Zackie, a medium-size mixed-breed dog, 3 years old, with Asheville Humane Society (Buncombe County, NC), in a foster home now. On the adoption list since November 2025, 339 days. #MuttMonday

Lenoir County is climbing: 92 signatures, ninth in North Carolina per resident. Thank you, Lenoir! 💙 A few more neighbors this week could push you into the top five. Sign for Lenoir, link in our profile. 79 days until it goes to the NC General Assembly (Jan 13). #LenoirCounty

Wake County leads North Carolina with 1,351 signatures. Thank you, Wake! 💙 Craven County leads per resident, more than six times Wake's rate. Craven, we see you. 🏆 Wake, let's close that gap. Sign for your county, link in our profile. #WakeCounty #CravenCounty

Does NC have a leash law? Not statewide. 36 of 100 counties require a leash off your property; the rest range from voice control to no county rule at all. Find yours, link in our profile. Photo: Iris Kershaw, adoptable at Peak Lab Rescue. #PetSafety

🐶 Pet of the day: Dijon, a medium-size mixed-breed dog, 2 years old, with Animal Protection Society of Caswell County, NC, in a foster home now. On the adoption list since December 2025, 319 days. He cuts the mustard.

“My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.” Anna Sewell, Black Beauty (1877) Unplanned litters are a wrong NC can stop, together. Fund low-cost spay/neuter. Link in our profile.

Pasquotank County, NC is on the board with 5 signatures and a brand new County Champion. Thank you! 💙 Every climb starts somewhere, and a few neighbors signing this weekend could move it up fast. Link in our profile. #PasquotankCounty

Google's showing our pages a lot more lately. Since our redesign and new adopt and events pages, weekly search appearances more than doubled, from about 10,500 to more than 24,500. Real progress. Keep it up. #AdoptDontShop #NorthCarolina

🐱 Kitten check: more than 3,000 kittens are waiting at NC shelters and rescues. Small, fearless and fond of laps. Find them on the 100-County Pet List, link in our profile. #AdoptDontShop #ShelterCat

🐱 Happy Caturday! 4 NC shelter cats waiting for a lap: Rhubarb (Guilford), Freckle (Buncombe), Velvet (Franklin), Charlotte (Pasquotank). Rhubarb has waited longest, since May 2025. More NC pets, link in bio. #Caturday

🐶 Pet of the day: Bentley, a pit bull terrier, 3 years old, at Foothills Humane Society (Polk County). On the adoption list since August 2025, 428 days. More NC pets, link in bio. #AdoptDontShop

🎉 Worth celebrating: North Carolina's state spay/neuter program paid for 5,938 surgeries in 2025. Source: NC Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Full funding means more. ✍️ Ask lawmakers to fully fund it. Link in our profile. #SpayNeuter

Brunswick County, NC: Fix a Friend Clinic spays or neuters a cat for $65, with a $45 package for feral cats. Thank you for making it easy, teammates! 💙 Every Brunswick County option is on our site, link in our profile. #AdoptDontShop #BrunswickCounty

Gates County and Graham County, we're looking for you! 🐾 98 of North Carolina's 100 counties have signed for statewide spay/neuter funding. Gates and Graham are the last two. Know someone there? Share this. Link in our profile.

🐶 About 300 senior dogs are waiting at NC shelters and rescues. Seniors skip the chew-your-shoes phase and go straight to nap-on-your-feet. Calm couch buddies, right here: ncpetproject.org/adopt/senio… #AdoptDontShop #ShelterDog

We just added an events calendar to NC Pet Project: 41 upcoming pet adoption events and low-cost clinics across NC, filterable by type, county or ZIP. Running one? You can submit it directly, link in our profile. #AdoptDontShop #NorthCarolina

🐾 Weekend five, long-stay pets across NC: Jason (Burke), Lola (Wake), Aiden (Cumberland), Poppy (Watauga), Kiki (Pitt). Jason has waited longest, since May 2024. Somebody's weekend is about to get better. More NC pets, link in bio.

Outer Banks, NC: $10 rabies shots for dogs and cats tomorrow, Sat Oct 24, 8:30 to 11 a.m. at Martin's Point Veterinary Hospital in Kitty Hawk, from Coastal Humane Society. 🐾 More clinic days: ncpetproject.org/clinics/?re… #SpayNeuter

Friday NC leaderboard, signatures per 10,000 residents: 🥇 Craven 67.6 🥈 Pamlico 40.6 🥉 Perquimans 25.3 4. Yancey 23.7 5. New Hanover 19.4 Craven, we see you. Is your county on the board? Link in our profile. #CravenCounty