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Covid-19 Response

Our Shelter Animals Need Your Help

We need your support to ensure the health and safety of our animals during this period of preparation and response to COVID-19.

The Nevada Humane Society Reno and Carson City shelters are currently open and in accordance with the latest public health recommendations, we are limiting the number of people in our shelters at a time by offering adoption appointments. If you are interested in helping the Nevada Humane Society by adopting a shelter pet, please review the animals that are currently available and schedule an adoption appointment. Adoption appointments are currently being scheduled in 15 minute intervals between 11:00am – 6:00pm.

There are three important things you can do right now to help us:

  1. Adopt -ALL shelter pets are FREE
  2. Sign up to be an Emergency Foster
  3. Donate

ADOPT:  Our primary goal right now is to reduce the number of animals housed at our shelters in an effort to avoid overcrowding should we need to restrict our services due to staffing constraints. The most helpful thing you can do to support Nevada Humane Society and the pets we care for RIGHT NOW is to ADOPT. We would love your help in providing forever homes to as many of our pets as possible to help us reduce our current animal population.

Emergency Fosters Needed: We are also in need of emergency fosters, who can take home a pet if we reach critical capacity. To sign up to be an on-call, emergency foster please email fcoordinator@nevadahumanesociety.org with the subject line EMERGENCY FOSTER and the following information:

  • First name:
  • Last name:
  • Phone number:
  • Types of pets living in your home:
  • Ages of children living in your home:
  • Type of home: (apt., house, mobile home, etc.)
  • Do you have a yard?

Donate: People who can’t adopt or foster can make a donation to Nevada Humane Society.

For more details on the impact your; adoptions, offers to be Emergency Fosters and donations will have on Nevada Humane Society shelter pets, please check out this great video from our friends at Best Friends Animal Society.

 

What we’re doing to keep the community safe
We want you to know that we are working hard to keep our shelters thoroughly sanitized to ensure it is safe for you to come in to visit with, and adopt our shelter pets. We greatly appreciate everyone who is offering to help by adopting a shelter pet in need of a forever home right now!

Steps we are taking to ensure our shelters are safe for the community:

  • Hand sanitizing stations have been installed at all shelter entrances
  • Social distancing practices are being strictly followed
  • All door handles and communal surfaces (including chairs, counters, tables, public writing utensils, etc.) are sanitized hourly using Rescue which is confirmed to kill the virus

Changes to our Clinic operations
For the latest information on our clinic services please visit our Veterinary Clinic Services page

Can COVID-19 affect pets?
The American Veterinary Medical Association released a statement saying there is no evidence that dogs or cats can be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. For information about coronavirus in our area and guidance for keeping yourself and others healthy, please reference the Nevada Health Response website for the latest, most up-to-date information.

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