Come check out our “Adopt-A-Kennel” program where our local individuals and businesses can show the community their support for our area’s homeless animals. This month’s (MARCH) Adopt-A-Kennel is from Judith Ladehaff and in memory of all of the furkids she’s cared for in her lifetime. Anyone who knows her, knows her reputation of taking in the special needs babes, the elderly, and they live out their lives in nothing but amazing love and comfort. She is wanting to take this month to give remembrance to all who will never leave her heart. We thank all of our sponsors for their continuing support. It’s the perfect way to honor someone or memorialize them by adopting a kennel in their name. Call us for more information or visit our website www.mccookhumanesociety.com for more information and to fill out a form online. You can also sponsor an adoption for one of our available pets if you’d like to help out in that way.
WISHLIST: We do have a special request. Does anyone happen to have a mannequin (just the top portion) that they’d donate to the shelter? We want to display our TShirts and we need a way to do so. Thank you in advance if you can locate one.
We’ve had some very loving people come in and sponsor adoptions to help make sure that our temporarily homeless furry friends find forever homes. Come on in and see who’s adoption fees have been completely paid for: Rhea, Mr. Biggles and Benedict Cumberbark. This should help us Clear the Shelter, if even for a few days. Some wonderful pets have found truly amazing forever homes because of these generous people. We really need these furkids finding homes quickly because of the upcoming remodel to the Main Kennel.
Spay/Neuter Fees waived, but for how long? A wonderfully generous anonymous donor has decided that it was time to let the dog’s at the shelter get help in finding homes also. This friend of the shelter started a spay/neuter reimbursement fund for them because, as she said, “they need help finding permanent loving homes also”. So, spay/neuter fees have been waived on all dogs who have been available for adoption for over 30 days, until this fund is depleted. Unfortunately, this fund is dangerously low, we’re actually at zero after the ones on the list are adopted. If you’d like to donate to this fund to keep it going, please reach out. We, and the temporarily homeless friends that have found homes because of this, truly appreciate you.
At this time the spay/neuter reimbursement fees are still being waived for the felines. We will continue to waive the spay/neuter fees until the Linda Hedges/Mary Ellinger Memorial fund is depleted. We have truly seen a dramatic increase in the feline adoptions since we’ve been able to waive the spay/neuter fees for them, let’s see if it helps with their barking friends. If you’d like to make a contribution to help either of these funds continue, please make sure that you let us know that it’s for the fund. You can stop by, call us, email us, Facebook us, or reach out on the “Contact Us” form on our website for help.
Don’t forget to “Like” us on Facebook, Instagram or check us out on TikTok to keep up to date on all of the upcoming fun events, job openings and fundraisers and when checking out our website, make sure you check out our section featuring our Up To The Minute Pet Listings!
Did you know… The McCook Humane Society is here to help. We do ask that when you need to surrender a pet, that you call us and make an appointment to surrender him or her. Why? Because we stay full, as most shelters do. Because a lot of folks are facing difficult times and facing economic challenges that they’ve never had to face before, forcing them to make the tough decision to let their furkid go. We would love to be able to take in every one that needs a new home right as soon as you make that difficult decision, however that is not feasible or possible with only 16 kennels available. We try. We try our best to help everyone that we can. We also offer helpful suggestions, advice, aide, food, anything within our power to help enable folks to be able to keep their furkid. There’s only so much that we can do, but we try. We’ll be offering more services soon, we are always looking to find more ways to help the community the way that they help us. The one thing we do not want to see is abandoned dogs. That is never the solution. Whether you are dropping them in the country, or even at our door… we won’t have actual and factual information about the pets if you don’t surrender them properly. Now, at this time, we will have to close the Main Dog Kennel, our 16 runs. We will not have the room to house the dogs temporarily, and we are still at this point scrambling to place them, either in permanent or foster homes. Here’s the deal… without being able to get our plumbing completely redone, we will be shutting down for weeks at a time periodically forever. This will allow us to end that. Please bear with us. We will help with this as much as possible. However, dumping dogs with us having nowhere to put them will not help. Give us a call at 308-345-2372, and we will help you with alternatives. We do know that it is hard right now, all shelters are full, we know this because they are all trying to come to us. We appreciate everyone’s patience.
Happy Tails! The following pets found their new forever home: Oakley and GiGi!