Valley Animal Haven & Adoption Center

We have multiple goals. The first is to provide a safe place for homeless animals to reside while they await adoption. We provide all medical treatments (ie; spay/neuter, vaccinations, micro-chipping, deworming, and flea treatments) to get the animals ready for adoption. Our staff is dedicated and diligent in providing quality care for the animals that are housed in our shelter.
Our second goal is to educate the public on the need to spay/neuter their household pets. The serious problem of pet overpopulation can be corrected when the public at large has the knowledge and resources to get their animals altered.

Our strategies are as follows: 1. We opened our facility in 2014 with 7 dog kennels and 2 cat hutches. We have grown exponentially since that time and now have 28 dog kennels and 4 cat hutches. This has allowed an increase in housing availability at our facility which has saved thousands of lives. We were originally able to house 16 dogs and can now comfortably house up to 115 dogs. This is a 720% growth over our start-up year. We were originally able to house 20 cats and can now comfortably house 95 cats. This is a 475% growth over our start-up year.
2. We actively participate in multiple community events and hand out information packets that provide information on the need to spay/neuter household pets. We are also looking to implement a Cat Care Program in our community in 2021 that will help address the crisis of feral cats in our communities.

We have constant presence on social media where we share information about our adoptable pets. We also maximize our visibility by participating on community events (farmer's markets, vendor fairs, civic events, and community parades) as a way to bring awareness of our shelter and our adoptable pets. We accept volunteers throughout our communities to help and the shelter. This provides us with a regular source of extra help for the animals in our care while also increasing our visibility in the community. Many of our volunteers take information from our shelter back to their friends and families and explain the need for pet adoption and also the need to spay/neuter household pets.
We maintain our facility with the most effective cleanliness practices and seek guidance and recommendations from our veterinarians regarding any new industry protocols that need to be implemented.

We have successfully managed to increase the size of our shelter operation to sustain a large number of animals on an on-going daily basis. We have been able to do this through massive amounts of fundraising and financial contributions from our community. While we have not yet received any financial support from a corporate sponsor we are striving toward that end.
We currently have a long-term lease on the property that our shelter occupies. Our goal is to be in a financial position to purchase the property within the next 5 years. We currently occupy 2.5 acres of a 4 acre parcel. Our landlord is open to the idea of negotiating for us to purchase the entire 4 acre parcel. If we are able to secure funding to purchase the entire parcel we would be able to expand our current operation to include a small dog park, and an all-weather training facility for on-site obedience training, and a cattery (with a kitty meeting room and four additional cat hutches).