Foothills Humane Society

Hello and thanks for visiting with us! We want to help you find your new best friend, and thank Maddie’s Fund. whose gift made this wonderful website visit possible.

Our vision is a community where no animal is abused, there is “no littering” of unwanted animals, and we have No More Homeless Pets. Won’t you join us? We have great animals at Foothills who need your love and can’t wait to meet you.

V.I.P.S

GOT CATS?????

If you live in Polk County, NC or Landrum, Campobello or Gowensville, SC, and have or know of stray or feral cats that need to be spayed or neutered, WE CAN HELP. It won't cost you a thing. FHS has received a generous grant from PetSmart Charities®. Please contact Dana at 828-894-2088 or send an email to danamayer@windstream.net

STOP LITTERING. PRACTICE PLANNED PETHOOD!

Did you know that 1 cat and her female kittens can produce 1,449 kittens in just three years! And that more than 4 Million homeless animals die each year in animal shelters? Do you need financial assistance to stop littering?? Check out our Spay Neuter Assistance Programs

SPAY NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM "SNAP"

Discounts for use at Landrum Vet, Bonnie Brae, Cloverfield, God's Creatures, Saluda Vet, Twin Oaks, and Animals Allies in Spartanburg, good for $20 off the spay/neuter of a cat or $30 off the spay/neuter of a dog are available at FHS for all residents of our service area. Assistance for low income residents in our service area is available in the form of a $15 voucher sold at FHS. Funds donated to FHS spicifically for our SNAP program will cover the cost of "fixing" your pet if you qualify for a $15 voucher. Call the shelter and ask about SNAP if you need more info.

WORKING OUR WAY OUT OF KILLING

Through our “Keep Them at Home” program We have helped several owners that thought they had to surrender their pets for adoption, Keep Them at Home. Through our proactive efforts to reunite lost pets with their owners we sent 4 pets home in January and 11 pets home in February. Through Po’Kitties and the Community Cats Project we have spayed or neutered 82 cats in the past two months. Through Adoption, partnering with Rescue Organizations, and the success of our Rehabilitation and obedience training program called “100% Recycled” we are working our way out of killing. Our live release rate for January and February combined is 98%. February was a perfect month with a 100% live release rate. We have enjoyed 100 adoptions in these two months combined.

I received an email today from someone that just wanted to say “Way to Go!”. It reads: “As a volunteer at a small, all volunteer, open admission shelter I have some understanding of the work and challenges you must face every day. Your live release rate is truly impressive as are the programs you have instituted. Your staff and volunteers should be very proud of the jobs you all do. Thank you all for being a ray of sunshine that offsets all the bad news I see every day.”

I thanked him and posted it in our employee break room. I hope all of our volunteers know that their time spent helping our animals equates to lives saved. I hope all of our staff members understand that their passion and hard work is not only saving lives in our own community but showing the world what is possible.

To all of you that read this I will speak on behalf of the staff because I know what they would say: It’s the animals that are a ray of sunshine. We are just helping them shine.

Angie Yates

Adoption Coordinator

HUMANE HAPPENINGS

Rabies and Micro Chip Clinic at FHS ~ Saturday, April 16 from 11 am to 1 pm.

Volunteer Orientation at Polk County Library, Saturday, April 30th at 10 am.

Animal Fair Sunday, May 1st. The shelter will be closed.