The Tri-County Animal Shelter, through mutual agreement, provides animal sheltering services to Charles, St. Marys, and Calvert counties. Funding of the costs associated with operating the shelter is split between these counties. Primarily, the animal shelter is the facility that accepts stray, ill, injuried and unwanted domestic animals both from the general public and the animal control agencies of the three counties it serves. These animals are provided with a safe, humane haven until they are reclaimed by their owners, adopted out to their new owners, rescued by a humane organization, or are euthanized.