The Humane Society of McCormick County

We would like to increase the number of live outcomes from 180 dogs and cats to 225 in 2021. When we adopt out a dog or cat or transfer one to a no-kill organization, it opens up a space to pick up another. Increasing our live outcomes means saving more lives.

We would like to increase the number of community-owned animals spay and neutered from 96 to 130. We would also like to increase our TNR surgeries from 58 to 116. Spay and neutering of dogs and cats will help to humanely decrease the number of unwanted animals born in McCormick County.

We will look for Facebook pages to join and conferences to attend to network with more rescues and shelters. We want to increase transfers of dogs and cats up North so they can be adopted. This will hopefully help us to move out dogs and cats that have stayed with us a long time to free up space to pick up more dogs and cats in need of help.

We will establish a kitten foster program so that we will be able to save more kittens and cats with the extra space.

We will continue reach out to the community and educate them about the importance of spay and neuter through participating in local events, continuing to move our spay and neuter signs around to different locations in the county, and use social media to reach more of the public.

We have increased the number of foster homes by reaching out to our community for help. We will continue this by participating in community events and the use of social media. We publish a monthly newsletter to inform our readers on our progress and to ask for foster homes. With more foster homes, we can rescue more dogs and cats and save more lives.

We installed a new fenced area to be used to train our dogs to do agility. This will help our dogs get more exercise, mentally and physically, and could lead to happier dogs that get adopted faster.

We developed a relationship with the only Animal Control officer in McCormick County and she has joined our board. She can tell residents in need about our low-cost spay and neuter program to get more pets fixed and stop unwanted and unplanned litters.

We built a dog shelter and a cat shelter on land that we own. We put in dog walking trails for the volunteers to use and installed fenced in areas for the dogs to play. In 2018, we installed doggie doors in place of the guillotine type doors so that the cold air and hot air does not come into the shelter.

We bought an old building that we use as a re-sale store for donated household items. We added an additional building to hold furniture for sale. The revenue from the thrift store sales will help pay for the needs of the shelter and fund our spay and neuter program.