About
Since 1998
About Moyer Animal Shelter
Moyer Animal Shelter is a Powell, Wyoming animal rescue dedicated to helping dogs and cats find safety, care, and loving homes.
Since 1998, we have served the Powell community by providing shelter, adoption support, lost and found assistance, fostering opportunities, community education, and other resources for local pets and the people who care for them.
Our Mission
At Moyer Animal Shelter, our mission is to provide a safe and compassionate place for homeless, lost, and vulnerable animals while helping each one find the loving home and future they deserve. Through responsible sheltering, veterinary care, spay and neuter services, enrichment, adoption, and community partnerships, we work to improve the lives of animals and strengthen the bond between people and their pets.
Our goal is not simply to find animals a home, but to help them find the right home—one where they can feel safe, loved, and valued for the rest of their lives.
Our Story
A Legacy of Compassion Since 1998
1998
Moyer Animal Shelter Begins
Moyer Animal Shelter’s story began in 1998 with the vision of one compassionate woman, Elfriede Milburn, and a community of individuals who believed that homeless animals deserved a safe place to turn.
Early Years
Building a Local Resource
The shelter became a place where community members could turn for help with adoptable pets, lost and found animals, and animal care support.
Growing Support
Community Involvement Expands
Through volunteers, foster families, donors, and adopters, Moyer Animal Shelter continued growing its impact in Powell and surrounding areas.
Ongoing Care
Helping More Pets and Families
Over the years, the shelter has continued supporting the community through adoptions, fostering, surrender assistance, and education.
Today
Still Serving Powell
Today, Caring for Powell Animals continues the important work that began in 1998, building upon the foundation established by Elfriede Milburn and the community members who shared her vision.
Moyer Animal Shelter is more than a building where homeless animals stay. It is a place where compassion becomes action, where second chances begin, and where our community comes together to make a difference.
Our Impact
Since 1998, Moyer Animal Shelter has made a meaningful difference for homeless, lost, and vulnerable animals throughout Powell and the surrounding communities. Through adoptions, family reunifications, veterinary care, spay and neuter support, and community partnerships, we work to create better outcomes for dogs and cats in need.
Our impact is measured not only in numbers, but in the animals helped, the families reunited, and the community members who make this work possible.
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Success Stories
In August, a community member saw Gracie get hit by a car and brought her to us. Dr. Whitt at Paintbrush Veterinary Clinic found a broken pelvis but expected it to heal without surgery. The bigger challenge was her fear. Gracie hissed, swatted, and hid so much in foster care that she came back to the shelter after about a month with a recommendation that she live as a barn cat.
Instead, we let her set the pace. Every day we cleaned her space, brought her favorite wet food, and talked to her quietly, and we respected every hiss. Slowly she came out of her carrier, stopped hissing, and started to chirp. Then one day she let us pet her.
Her pelvis has fully healed, and so has her trust. Today Gracie is a sweet, chatty girl waiting for a family to earn her heart, one gentle moment at a time.
Gracie
The first time Gracie chirped at us, it was barely more than a little greeting. Inside the shelter, that tiny sound meant something extraordinary, because for a long time the only thing she had ever said was stay away, and we had listened.
Gracie's story began in August, when a community member saw her get hit by a car and brought her to us. Dr. Whitt at Paintbrush Veterinary Clinic found a broken pelvis and believed she was young enough to heal without surgery. She needed rest, pain management, and a quiet place to recover, so we arranged a foster home.
Gracie had drawn a firm line between herself and people. She hissed, occasionally swatted, and spent nearly all her time hiding. Giving her medication became so difficult that her foster caregiver eventually stopped trying, and after about a month she came back to the shelter with the suggestion that she might be happiest as a barn cat. Based on everything we had seen, we agreed. There is a difference, though, between a cat who doesn't want love and a cat who hasn't yet learned that love can be safe, and we didn't know which one Gracie was. So we decided to let her tell us.
Every day we followed the same gentle routine: cleaned her litter box, refreshed her water, brought her favorite wet food close to the carrier where she spent most of her time, and talked to her like an old friend. When she hissed, we respected her boundaries. When she hid, we let her hide. We didn't demand affection. We simply kept showing up.
Somewhere along the way, Gracie started changing the rules. She began venturing out of her carrier, then stopped hissing when we approached, and soon she was watching us with curiosity instead of fear. Then came the chirping. Before long she was rubbing against her enclosure as we walked up, almost inviting us to reach in. One day she let us pet her, just a little, just for a moment, and entirely on her terms.
The petting sessions grew longer, the chirps became more frequent, and visiting Gracie became one of the highlights of our day. The cat we once thought might never enjoy human companionship was now seeking it out. Somewhere between the wet food, the quiet conversations, and the hundreds of times we respected her right to say no, she had learned to trust us. And that broken pelvis? It healed. Gracie made a full recovery.
Today Gracie is available for adoption. She's a sweet, talkative little girl who has taught us that trust isn't something you can demand. It's something you earn, one gentle moment at a time. We hope her future family understands what a privilege it will be to earn hers, because Gracie doesn't give her heart away carelessly. She gives it in little pieces, until one day you realize she's given you more than you ever expected.
We call her Gracie the Survivor because of everything she endured. We're hoping the next person who falls in love with her will simply know her as Gracie, the little cat who greets them at home.
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