The Humane Society of Tacoma and Pierce County
August 21, 2008 12:00 am Rescue Organizations Honored Linda Fortune
Author of Regal: An Intimate View of One Magnificent Feline
The Humane Society of Tacoma and Pierce County
Welcome,
The Humane Society of Tacoma and Pierce County provides an invaluable service to our community. With the defining mission of this organization and through the efforts of their staff and the many volunteers, they work tirelessly to provide compassionate and good care for all the animals that come to them. They reunite lost pets with their owners, they provide medical care to injured animals, they facilitate adoptions, and they provide love and comfort for the animals waiting to be adopted.
The Humane Society of Tacoma and Pierce County has also adopted a ‘no-kill’ shelter policy and has been working diligently toward reaching this goal that was set two years ago. What this means is that the shelter is working to end the euthanasia of healthy, adoptable animals. This goal is admirable and its realization will take the efforts of many people in the community both from organizations and from responsible behavior of our citizens.
Since the Humane Society is an open shelter, every animal regardless of its medical condition or behavior issue is accepted, evaluated, and dealt with in the most compassionate way. Because of the presenting difficult problems, not all animals are able to be healed and be held for adoption. This sometimes means that the most loving thing to be done is to give the animal a dignified passing.
Because of the large population of animals in our community, it will take all of our efforts to help solve the homeless animal issue. Toward this end, the Humane Society staff work in conjunction with numerable other organizations in the area that are committed to animal welfare. Utilizing donations from individuals and foundations, groups of these animal welfare organizations have worked together to provide for both a high-volume, low-cost spay neutering and a mobile spay-neuter clinic vehicle which have served the area during the course of this year.
Next entry: More about homeless animals.
With blessings, Linda