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PARS FOR PAWS

Our 4th Annual Golf Tournament is all about having fun while "Helping Us Help the Animals!" New venue this year at the beautiful Saddle Creek Golf Resort in Copperopolis, CA. For more info see the flyer or contact Stacey at 209-728-3806 or sstowe151@gmail.com . Sign up to play here. Learn about sponsorship opportunities here and sign up to sponsor/donate here.

Giant Yard Sale!

CHS's annual yard sale was a great success! Held May 22, 23 & 24, 2009, at our wonderful new location, Meadowmont Shopping Center in Arnold, it attracted a large stream of shoppers all three days. Click here to see pictures.

Volunteer Appreciation Dinner Videos now on YouTube!

Check out the video presentations from the last 3 years of Volunteer Appreciation Dinners on YouTube! They are great!

2009: Wall-to-Wall Kittens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RV7tVg7Uz4

2008: Audrey and Buddy-the-Dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUiE2F0umtI&feature=channel

2007 Alley Cats, Alley Dogs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPzN8qFhSmQ&feature=channel

Low Cost Rabies & License Clinics

Once again CHS is partnering with Animal Services to bring low cost rabies & license clinics to Calaveras County. See the flyer for dates and details. Remember--A license is your dog's ticket home!

55-5 Gives Senior Animals a Second Chance

Click here to learn the details of what CHS is doing to help senior animals find forever homes and senior humans find the perfect companion pet.

Buy CHS gear and wear online!

Now you can browse, select and purchase gear and wear displaying the CHS dog and cat design embroidered on them. To view the large selection click here. Get great gear for yourself and help the animals of Calaveras County at the same time! (They make wonderful gifts, too!)

What's She Up To Now?

See Tammy Beilstein's interviews with Calaveras Humane Society and Animal Service personnel and learn a lot about how the two groups interact for the benefit of all Calaveras County animals by clicking here.

The second part of Tammy's visit to an Adopt a Pet affair at the County Animal Shelter is here.

Mother Lode Artist Paints for Charity

Click here to see how a local canine artist is helping raise money for humane organizations in Northern California.

We now have office hours!

The CHS office is staffed by volunteers and is normally open
Mondays & Wednesdays 10 am - 12 noon
Tuesdays & Fridays 10 am - 2 pm

We are staffed by our volunteers and open for your convenience at these hours. Foster homes can pick up food for their animals. Or come by and discuss volunteering with us. You can search on line for a pet. Buy merchandise. Drop off a donation. Watch a video. These are our administrative offices and we do not take in or adopt out animals at this location.

4868 Highway 4, Suite E

Located in Vallecito, east of Angels Camp on Hwy 4
behind Family 4 Fitness--in the rear of the building.

Our mailing address is:
P.O. Box 177
Vallecito CA, 95251

We now take credit cards at our fund raising events!

Thanks to a recent donation of the equipment and the service, we can now take credit cards at our events, for your added convenience. Stock up on shirts! Buy a dog house or cat condo. Visa and MasterCard only.

MISSION STATEMENT: The mission of the Calaveras Humane Society is to promote an excellent quality of life for the animals of our county. Our vision is to work for the day when every adoptable animal will have a forever home and when sterilization is a routine part of dog and cat care.

WHO WE ARE: We are an all-volunteer force of citizens who simply care about the destiny and comfort of pet animals. We try to pick up where the county government leaves off.

The government budget for the Calaveras County Animal Services provides funds for managing pet licensing, tracking rabies shots and dealing with animal problem in the county, but there is a limit to how much they can do to manage the big picture, meaning the supply vs. the demand for pet animals. If not for us, unwanted pets would simply be picked up, put down, housed in the shelter for a few days in between and adopted out to folks who drop by looking for a pet. The new administration is rapidly improving conditions and policies at the shelter -- and we couldn't do our jobs without them either -- but they aren't free to address the magnitude of the supply vs. demand problem. Nationwide, there are three times as many cats and dogs being born as there are homes available for them. Therefore, for every litter of three allowed to be born, two unwanted pets must die. While that's unpleasant to think about, this is the problem that must be faced and solved. Think about this... When human prisons are overpopulated, the inmates are released back into society. But when animal prisons are overpopulated, the inmates are simply killed to make room for more. Domesticated animals no longer have the balance of nature managing their populations. It's left up to us humans. When we don't manage the supply of pet animals, we end up jumping through hoops trying to manage and increase the demand, and then resort to euthanasia when we run out of homes before we run out of pets. This is the cold reality of the pet world that is usually too sad for us to share with you. The ones who make it into our homes are part of the lucky one-third.

Our aims are to help with both the supply side and the demand side of this unbalance. On the supply side, we provide Spay/Neuter Assistance for Calaveras County pet owners who need financial assistance in neutering their animals, along with promoting and even harping on the need for this in our pet animal population.

On the demand side, we provide a foster home program to buy animals some time and some peace while waiting for a forever home. We post adoptable pets on Petfinder for both the animals in Humane Society foster care and the animals in the Calaveras Animal Shelter. We run advertisements in the local papers highlighting the "Pet of the Week". And we hope to build a new and better shelter and adoption facility of our own within a few years. We also provide a Lost and Found service on our web site.

WHO WE ARE NOT: We are not the government, nor are we funded by them. We rely totally on donations and on fund raisers. In fact, we provide most of the animals' food, the shelter's labor, and the medicines needed to prepare an animal for adoption by the community, at no charge to the county government. This is truly a labor of love and duty.

Please help us by joining our membership or becoming a sponsor by being a Pet Partner. We can always use donations of time and materials to help us continue our Pet Foster Home, which provides a temporary home for animals waiting to be adopted; our various fund raisers; volunteers to work at our Adopt-a-Pet events; help making security blankets to comfort the animals at Animal Services (see the Snuggles Project web site for more information). And...if we had more volunteers and funds, we would like to:

Develop an Educational Program for our Schools
Develop a Pet Friendship Program for our Seniors
Develop an Emergency Pet Plan for Calaveras County
Search for and write grants to take our organization to another level
Have our own adoption facilities.

Please, please help us break this terrible cycle of unwanted pets. We are in desperate need of pet lovers like you; we can't do it without you. Go to our membership page and check your areas of interest, then send it to:

Calaveras Humane Society
P.O. Box 177
Vallecito CA, 95251
(209) 736-9417

Since Nov. 14, 2008