UPPER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC

If you are no longer able to care for your pet, we are here to help without judgement.

Here are a few things to know about surrendering your pet to UVHS:

We are a limited admission shelter. This means we do not euthanize an animal due to time or space. Since we are limited admission, in order to keep with our policy, we do require an appointment for surrendering. This ensures that we have appropriate space for all incoming animals. At times there may be a waiting list to admit an animal, but we will always try to schedule the earliest appointment possible.

You must be the legal owner of the animal. If you are not the legal owner of the animal, the legal owner must provide a written signed letter in order for someone to surrender the pet on their behalf.

We ask that you provide all medical records for the animal. If you do not have medical records handy, we will ask for your permission to release medical records from your vet to us.

We ask for a surrender fee, which varies by animal. At UVHS, we provide food, shelter, medical care, and enrichment. A surrender fee helps us with a portion of those costs. We will NEVER turn away an animal simply because of an owner’s inability to pay.

We will ask you to fill out a personality profile for your animal. We want to know as much about your pet as possible! We ask that you are as honest as possible. If your animal has a history of biting, litter box issues, resource guarding, or medical issues, we want to know. This type of information helps to ensure that we can appropriately care for, evaluate, and place an animal into the right type of home.

The UVHS Pet Food Pantry provides temporary assistance to people in need to help keep families intact during difficult financial times. If you’re struggling to afford food for your pets, we want to help.

This program is intended to temporarily supplement your monthly supply of pet food, not be the permanent sole source of food for your pets. We want to be able to help as many pets and their families as possible.This program is for individuals and families only; we are unable to provide assistance to independent rescues groups or breeders.

UVHS operates a mobile pet food pantry in order to reach the most rural and under-served parts of the Upper Valley. We often hear that people do not have gas money or transportation to visit our shelter, so we partner with local human food pantries to help those that need it.

UVHS offers community spay/neuter clinics monthly. We also have a financial assistance request on our website for those that need help with the fees involved.

Struggling with accidental litters of puppies, kittens, or bunnies? We can help!

Residents within the service area of the Upper Valley Humane Society (UVHS) can have their mother cat, dog, or rabbit spayed at no cost.

The mother will be spayed and returned to the owner, while the offspring are signed over to UVHS to be put up for adoption when ready. Offspring must be fully weaned and no longer nursing. Mothers must be in good health and no longer producing milk.

This is a completely free service provided by UVHS to the local community and their pets.

UVHS provides temporary housing and care for animals in emergency situations.

If you are suddenly hospitalized or displaced by a house fire, for instance, we can help take care of your pets so that you don’t have to surrender them.

We do not provide general vacation boarding or pet sitting as a service. Our boarding is for emergencies only.

An appointment is required to make sure we have ample space to accommodate your pet(s).

Our emergency boarding is for a 2 week period and can sometimes be extended, depending on your situation.

All animals staying with us must be up to date on vaccinations. UVHS can provide vaccinations to animals who need them, to ensure that your pet(s) and our staff are protected and safe.

Emergency boarding is a free service offered by UVHS. We recognize that most owners looking to board their pet with us are in a financial hardship, and we want to help get them through tough times by taking care of their pet(s).

What is TNR? Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) is a non-lethal, three-step method used to reduce the number of feral and stray cats, both immediately and in the long term.

Step 1 – Trap: Feral or stray cats are trapped using a safe, humane live trap.

Step 2 – Neuter: Trapped cats are spayed/neutered and vaccinated by a veterinarian.

Step 3 – Return: Spayed/neutered cats are returned to their home.

If you have a barn, stable or warehouse with a rodent problem, barn cats might be the solution!barn-cat

Sometimes we have cats who cannot live as house pets. Cats in our barn cat program fall into one of three categories:

Cats whose litter box habits make them unsuitable to live in the house
Cats who are just too independent to appreciate being cooped up
Cats who are feral, under socialized, or fearful of people
Please note that we do not place cats who are suitable to be household pets into our barn cat program – only those cats without other options.

It’s not just for barns!

Without barn cat adopters, these cats have nowhere else to go. We refer to these cats as “barn cats” because that is typically the most common housing option. However, if you have a warehouse or other type of safe, weather-proof outbuilding, we are willing to consider creative locations!

What we provide

All cats are:

Up to date on vaccinations
Spayed or neutered
Microchipped
Tested for FeLV/FIV
When you adopt we will go over with you how to acclimate your new cat to their surroundings and how to go about their introductory process. We can loan you an introductory crate (if needed) for the first few weeks in their new environment.