Safe Haven Humane Society

During March and April of 2010, Safe Haven offered to subsidize half of the cost of spaying female cats for Ionia County residents.  Advertising as "Beat the Heat" and offering a cat spay for $20 (Safe Haven paid the balance of $25), at least 163 spays were done under this program.

Safe Haven Humane Society operates as a foster-home dog and cat rescue.  Our cat foster homes are at capacity by April-May of every year due to "kitten season" when large numbers of cats and kittens are dumped at the local county animal shelters.  Once we take as many cats or kittens from shelters as we can accommodate in foster care, cat/kitten intake at the shelters is still high and illness and euthanasia are the logical outcome of that shelter overpopulation.  To promote adoptions of cats and kittens, Safe Haven offered to pay for the spay/neuter surgery of any cat or kitten adopted from the Ionia County Animal Shelter during June, July and August.  In June, the promotion was primarily responsible for the adoption numbers increasing by 250%.  Numbers are not yet available for July and August, but in one week of July, 20 cats or kittens were adopted which is a huge increase over last year during the same time.