Mercy Fund Animal Rescue, Inc. is a 100% volunteer, commit to life foster based animal rescue. We are a small, rural rescue and our mission is to save the lives of animals in need, as well as to find safe and loving homes for those displaced and work hard to keep pets in their loving homes. Joy Harklerode, a long-time resident of Marion, North Carolina in McDowell County, saw a desperate need to assist her community in addressing animal welfare, overpopulation, and assistance to residents in providing dignity and care to their pets. This led her to start Mercy Fund Animal Rescue, Inc. in 2006 and nearly two decades later, Mercy has a small but might network of dedicated people committed to ...