**Bringing people and animals together for good.**

For more than sixty years, Anderson Humane has been the leading animal welfare organization in our community. We have been dedicated to creating positive connections between people and animals from day one because animals make us better!

Today, we place more than 4,000 pets into loving homes each year. Our innovative programs make the healing presence of animals available to seniors, veterans, and those in crisis.

We help pet owners provide the best care possible to their dogs, cats, rabbits, turtles, and other animals through free training and resources.

Every year, Anderson Humane cares for more than 3,000 injured and orphaned wild animals. Our classes and programs help people appreciate and preserve these animals and their natural habitat.

Creating Connections

How we save animals, help people, create connections, and support families.

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Adoptions

Anderson Humane places more than 4,000 homeless pets into loving homes each year, saving their lives and improving the lives of their people.

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Healing Paws

Certifying therapy pets and facilitating their visits to hospitals, schools, senior centers, and other places where people need their comforting presence.

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Partnerships With Under-Resourced Shelters

Taking in adoptable dogs and cats from overcrowded shelters in other states and providing them a path to a loving home.

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Volunteer

Our extensive volunteer program enables individuals or groups to become involved in helping the shelter according to their interests and talents.

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Events

From devents to formal galas, there are plenty of ways for you to get involved!

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Low-Cost Vet Care

Ensuring that everyone in our community can afford pets and their proper care by offering high-quality, reasonably priced veterinary services.

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Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation

Caring for more than 3,000 injured, orphaned, or sick wild animals each year and humanely removing wild animals from homes and businesses.

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Training Classes

Offering expert advice and behavior training classes that help pets and their people enjoy peaceful and mutually beneficial lives together.

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S.T.A.R.

Short Term Animal Refuge fosters pets for people entering homeless or domestic violence shelters or facing other short-term crises, reuniting them when life is more stable.

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Military Veterans Program

Honoring our veterans and active-duty service members by helping them care for their pets when they can’t and reducing pet adoption fees.

Recent Stories

A Champion For Cats: Celebrating Nancy Stepp

As Told by Patti Dahl: Honoring Volunteer Nancy Stepp In the heart of our cat care department, there are stories of dedication that truly take your breath away. This week, as part of Volunteer...

Laura’s Journey: Finding Connection and Calm

As Told by Laura Mikolajczyk: Dedicated Volunteer This week, as we celebrate Volunteer Appreciation Week, we are excited to spotlight Laura Mikolajczyk. For over three years, Laura has been a bright...

Stacy’s Journey: Building Bridges Through Healing

As Told by Stacy Koselka: Dedicated Foster Volunteer As we continue to celebrate Volunteer Appreciation Week, we are honored to share the story of Stacy Koselka. Though she has been a part of the...

What Drives Us

Our Mission:

Creating mutually beneficial connections between people and animals through programs that raise awareness and inspire kindness, empathy, and respect throughout our community.

Our Vision:

A humane world for people and animals.

Our Guiding Principles

RESPECT.

We believe that all people and animals have value and are worthy of respect.

We support positive connections between people and animals in the knowledge that awareness leads to understanding, empathy, and respect, not only for animals but also for one another.

PROTECT.

We believe it is our responsibility to protect animals and to preserve relationships between people and animals that improve the well-being of both.

Through visionary programs and life-saving partnerships, we protect pets and wildlife, and provide resources that safeguard mutually beneficial relationships between people and animals.

CONNECT.

We recognize that people who experience positive interactions with animals are happier, healthier and have higher levels of empathy and respect for others. We believe these are the building blocks of a humane community.

By facilitating meaningful engagement and supporting positive relationships between people and animals, we will create a kinder, more humane community, where together, people and animals thrive.