Play with animals at the Animal Shelter

Each year Animal Humane community (AHS) cares for over 23, 000 friend pets in need of assistance helping thousands even more through programs for folks and animals.

Once the leading pet benefit organization into the Upper Midwest, AHS is transforming just how shelters maintain pets and engage their particular communities. From revolutionary health and behavior programs to opportunities in outreach and advocacy, we’re advancing animal benefit and producing a more humane globe for pets every-where.

Adoption and Surrender

Animal Humane Society assists tens of thousands of puppies, cats, and critters in need of assistance discover loving domiciles each year — with no pet is previously turned away.

AHS ingests every animal surrendered to united states aside from its wellness, age, breed or behavior. This commitment to open entry guarantees housing and treatment to several thousand pets that will otherwise have no safe refuge. We also consume creatures from municipal shelters also organizations that don’t have the sources to look after them.

Although some pets are put into our use programs when they've been vaccinated and sterilized, other individuals need specific treatment to overcome health insurance and behavior dilemmas. AHS provides substantial medical treatment, surgery, behavior customization, and foster treatment to individuals with special difficulties, ensuring that even many difficult-to-place creatures have actually the possibility at use.

As a consequence of these extraordinary attempts, more than 95 % associated with the pets that emerged through our doorways in FY16 were used or placed in town.

Pet Services

Animal Humane community provides programs to serve all stages of an animal’s life, including:

• A free Pet Helpline (952-HELP-PET) that provides caring, caring advice and sources to help you with from solving behavior dilemmas to finding pet-friendly housing.
• Reassurance pet boarding at Animal House in Golden Valley and at Now Boarding in Southern Minneapolis, in just minutes far from MSP airport.
• Low-cost spay and neuter surgeries, wellness services, and dental treatments for animals of people with minimal means and pets when you look at the care of various other nonprofit rescues and shelters. These services, supplied through Kindest Cut, are available via a mobile surgical device and at AHS’s Melrose Animal Clinic in Golden Valley.
• Online resources for owners, including a lost animal bulletin board and behavior resource collection.

Community Engagement

Animal Humane Society works together with people and companies across Minnesota generate a far more humane world for creatures. Those efforts include:

• A Humane research unit specialized in seeking justice for creatures throughout Minnesota by giving an answer to reports of pet misuse and ignore and working together with local police to guard creatures.
• Outreach to under-engaged communities, including knowledge programs and no-cost or low-cost solutions that empower low-income owners and improve the everyday lives of animals.

Community Help

AHS is an unbiased nonprofit company, maybe not a part of any nationwide pet benefit organization or section of any government company. Our work is funded solely by personal contributions, use and system costs, product product sales, and unique activities.