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30 Years Helping the Animals of Calaveras County! 44

2008 marks the 30th Anniversary for the Calaveras Humane Society!

Quick News Headlines!

Wine and Art Fair

Enjoy a wonderful day of local wine tasting, live music and talented local artists in charming Arnold on August 16--and support Calaveras Humane Society at the same time!. For details click here.

Animal Motif Quilt Raffle

"Help Us...Help Them" by buying tickets for the raffle of a beautiful quilt designed and quilted by Virginia Belmont featuring cats, dogs, puppies and kittens Click here for more information.

Cayman Islands Dream Vacation Raffle

For information on how you can win this 7-NIGHT DREAM VACATION including airfare for 2 people, click here!

Low Cost Rabies & License Clinics

Clinics are scheduled at various towns throughout Calaveras County. For more information click here.

Spay Days 2008!

   Free Spay Days 2008 are donated by participating Calaveras County Veterinarians to help control pet overpopulation. Click here for more information. Please be sure to thank the participating veterinarians whether you need to take advantage of this service or not!

Teddy Bear Picnic Photos

Click here to see some photos from the 2007 Teddy Bear Picnic and Adopt-a-Pet!

Free Pet Training Videos

Follow this link to Petvideo.com to view positive, reward-based training advice on-line at no cost to you.

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.

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.