Our Vision: A better community for animals and the people who love them.
Our Mission: To strengthen the human-animal bond through protecting, advocating, and caring for animals.
Teach – by providing an interactive learning environment that celebrates all animals in our community
Lead – by providing compassionate and high-quality animal care and humane housing.
Connect – by helping our community members through a resource center for all animals.
Shelters can cause animal stress. Admission to any shelter is stressful for animals because of the abrupt change to their environment. The strange sights, smells, and sounds combined with the presence of unfamiliar people and animals cause uneasiness, thus causing almost all animals to experience some degree of fear and anxiety following admission.
Fear Free addresses the emotional wellbeing of the animals in our care and improves the animal experience while in a shelter environment by reducing fear, anxiety and stress.
All of our employees and volunteers are fear free certified!
We stand up for the five freedoms
1 Freedom from Hunger and Thirst: By ready access to fresh water and diet to maintain health and vigor.
2 Freedom from Discomfort: By providing an appropriate environment including shelter and a comfortable resting area.
3 Freedom from Pain, Injury or Disease: By prevention or rapid diagnosis and treatment.
4 Freedom to Express Normal Behavior: By providing sufficient space, proper facilities and company of the animal’s own kind.
5 Freedom from Fear and Distress: By ensuring conditions and treatment which avoid mental suffering.