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Nevada Humane Society Gives Back

This past very challenging year a half has forced us to find new and creative ways to:

  • Keep our shelter doors open, ensuring that Northern Nevada pets in need have a place to go for care and to find happy homes.
  • Reevaluate how we can best support our community during health crises, wildfire emergencies and whatever else comes our way.

The amazing support we receive from our donors, volunteers and supporters allows us to carry out our life-saving mission at our Reno and Carson City Shelters, and ensures we are able to provide support to community members in crisis when emergency situations arise. Our team works tirelessly to ensure the health and safety of animals inside our shelter walls and beyond, and we are thankful we are able to answer the call of the community when it is needed.

Providing Support to People & Pets Displaced by Wildfires

We provided support to people and pets affected by the fires surrounding our community in three important ways.
  1. We managed the Fuji Park evacuation site in Carson City which opened when the Caldor fire evacuations began. We provided care for cats, dogs and small animals in need that were displaced by by the fires. At this time we are excited to be reuniting pets with their families as evacuation orders are being lifted.
  2. We assisted our partners at Washoe County Regional Animal Services with staffing the Reno-Sparks Convention Center evacuation site they managed, by providing donated pet food and supplies, staff and volunteers to help care for animals who have been displaced by the fires with round-the-clock care.
  3. We transported all pet food and supplies donated to our Reno and Carson City Shelters during our Fire Support Donation Drive to various evacuation sites and animal shelters caring for pets that were displaced by the fires.
Caring for People & Pets Displaced by the Fires

Our team worked hard to provide care to pets in need that were displaced by the terrible fires surrounding our community this summer. Your donations were essential to helping us provide this care and support. The best way to help us continue our life-saving efforts helping the people and pets displaced by the fires is to make a monetary donation: https://nevadahumanesociety.org/donate-online/

         

Pandemic Response & Support

We are SO GRATEFUL for all of the support we have received over this past year that has allowed us to keep our doors open and continue our life-saving work helping Northern Nevada pets in need during the pandemic. We want to share how we are putting that support to good use to not only care for the pets in our shelters, but also to give back to our community during this time. We are #GivingBack in five important ways during this difficult time. 

  1. Pairing Community Members with Pets in Need
  2. Providing Pet Food Assistance
  3. Continuing to Provide Life-Saving Care
  4. Donating to Healthcare Heroes
  5. Taking in Animals from other Shelters

Bringing Community Members & Their Furry Soulmates Together

We know there is tremendous value in providing people with animal companionship during this challenging time of stress and isolation. Which is why we have worked with our partner organizations and sponsors to offer fee-waived adoptions during times when the pets and people in our community needed it most.
Waiving adoption fees for our shelter pets allows us to pair community members in need of animal companionship with shelter animals in need of happy homes at no cost to them. It also helps us to keep our shelter animal population as low as possible, which ensures we can continue providing essential, life-saving care while operating with the absolute minimum number of staff in our shelters at any given time -keeping us all safe.

Providing Pet Food Assistance

We are providing community members in need with free pet food to ensure they can stay together with their pets. Many people have shared with us in these past few weeks that they are in a financial position where they are being forced to choose between feeding their families or feeding their pets. The pet food we provide allows them to keep their pets at home with them instead of having to give them up -which would be absolutely devastating: https://nevadahumanesociety.org/pet-food-assistance/

Continuing to Provide Life-Saving Care

Our team is committed to continuing the life-saving work we do everyday by taking in homeless Northern Nevada pets in need of our love, care and help finding forever homes. Which is why during this trying time we have not closed our doors to these animals in need. Not once, not even for a day.
While we have been successful in keeping our shelter population low (with your greatly appreciated help and support), which has allowed us to reduce the number of staff in our shelters tremendously -we are still here. Without the dedication of our team, these animals would not have had anywhere to go for help.
We have resumed our public vaccine clinics to ensure community members in need can access this essential care for their pets. To learn more, or to schedule an appointment, visit our Veterinary Clinic Services page.

Donating to Healthcare Heroes

In an effort to everything we can to support our local healthcare professionals during this time of crisis, we have donated all surgical-grade PPE from our clinic to the Healthcare Heroes keeping our communities safe.

Accepting Animal Transfers from other Shelters

To help ensure that all animals get the help they need finding forever homes, we partner with other animal rescues in the Northern Nevada and Northern California regions to take in shelter pets that they are unable to care for. We have prioritized continuing this work to ensure that homeless pets with no other option, have a place to come for help.
The pups pictured above were part of a recent rescue effort where we took in 23 dogs & puppies from Contra Costa County and provided them with much needed and care and found them happy forever homes!

Thank You for Your Support

We can’t do this important life-saving work without you.

Northern Nevada pets and community members need us now more than ever. We’re here to help, but we can’t do it without your continued support.

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