13 to the Rescue: Hancock County Humane Society
All of the felines at the Hancock County Humane Culture are vaccinated and spayed or neutered before they are put up for adoption.
GREENFIELD, Ind. — The Hancock County Humane Modern society is a “no destroy” shelter that will take in cats only.
They’d like to be in a position to do much more, but with constrained dollars, space and volunteers, it can be all they can do.
You’ll only see cats and kittens in their shelter in Greenfield, and they are all taken treatment of by generous volunteers.
Kaelyn Roberts is one of the volunteers that assists run the shelter.
“We are funded and operate solely on volunteers and donations,” Roberts claimed. “We are separate from the town and county. Our overall shelter — any cat or kitten that we take in here — we provide professional medical treatment that they require.”
All of the felines are vaccinated and spayed or neutered right before they are put up for adoption.
Roberts explained they have also noticed families wrestle to just take treatment of their very own pets more than the previous 12 months, so they also offer what they can to all those people with a pet foods pantry.
“There are several stray cats, and then primarily, a large amount of individuals are variety of battling, you know, monetarily, taking care of their animals in excess of the previous yr,” Roberts mentioned. “So we also have a pet food items pantry that is open on Tuesday evenings and then on Saturdays throughout the day, so any individual from our group can appear and acquire free foods or litter for cats and canines and something like that that they require, so that variety of allows individuals maintain their very own animals in their residence if we can support out with that.”
Ideal now, the shelter has about 35 volunteers. Monique Lange is one of these volunteers.
She is unable to foster a cat mainly because she life in an apartment, but she volunteers by cleansing the shelter each individual Saturday.
“I do live in apartment, and I’m guaranteed any individual who life in an condominium can empathize, the pet costs are really high. So I would fairly not pay back these, so I appear in on Saturdays and this, this is my giving back again, this is my time with [them] because I have constantly been a tech particular person. I was that child who would obtain cats off the streets, developing up and just about every week, there’d be a diverse cat in our house, but I do not have that luxurious [in an apartment],” Lange claimed.
Volunteers at the shelter reported they understood that if they give the animals names, they get adopted more rapidly. They also preferred to have exciting with the names. This period, it is really all about Hollywood names!
Earning sure all of the cats and kittens are superstars is the aim, so they all finish up in excellent, joyful households.
For more data about adoptions or how to assist, click on here.

Approaching occasions
The HCHS is hosting an on-line auction on Thursday, June 3 to raise dollars for the humane culture. They will be advertising distinct themed baskets such as a day night time basket, coffee lover basket, sports activities basket and of system — a pet basket.
They will have the alternative to pay by means of PayPal and have the baskets delivered.
Take a look at the Hancock County Humane Culture Fb site to sign up for the event.
Then, from 9 a.m. on June 27 to 9 p.m. on July 10, HCHS will be running a “Pets on Parade” picture contest. The types for the picture contest are patriotic animals, seaside buddies and summer season sweethearts.
Every single photo that you post to the contest will have an entry rate of $5 and you may perhaps enter as several photos as you would like. Votes for the winners are $1 just about every and you may perhaps vote as many moments as you would like. Encourage your household and close friends to vote, far too!
Their aim is to raise $750. All proceeds from this contest will go directly to the treatment of the homeless animals at the Hancock County Humane Culture for issues these kinds of as food items, litter, supplies, medicine, and veterinary treatment.
You do not have to be local or have an adopted pet from their shelter to enter.