Central Victoria's first "No Kill" Shelter

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VALE Dakota

Jan 8, 2025 - BAWCS

VALE Dakota, you will be very much missed, especially by your best bud Harrison. Dakota’s story in memory. She had quite the history with BAWCS Shelter. This beautiful girl came into BAWCS care as part of a litter of puppies in 2012. Camille was first adopted at 11 weeks of age to a young couple […]

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April

April's Story

April came into BAWCS Shelter care back in 2014. She was originally known as Marley and ended up on a ‘kill list’ after being transferred from a Council who contracted the ‘high kill’ Shelter for their Pound services. Offered to ‘rescue’ (by Council) BAWCS Shelter took Marley on and started our own assessment / training […]

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