HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE TREASURE COAST INC

Low-cost Public S/N helps prevent pet overpopulation for dogs, cats, and rabbits in our community, and beyond. This program educates the public about responsible animal care and pet ownership. For a low fee, HSTC neuters spays a privately-owned pet, implants a registered microchip, and provides a rabies vaccination. HSTC also does this for all shelter pets, as included in our animal care services.

Vouchers may be purchased through our shelter to be used at participating veterinarian clinics around the community for spay/neuter services.

From basic obedience to advanced competition, there is a class for everyone at HSTC. Our campus offers training classes for the public; an agility course; and pet therapy certification classes. Pets adopted from our shelter receive discounts to these classes. This program helps reduce pet surrenders to our shelter, by teaching pet owners how to train their dogs to create well-behaved pets.

Our Return to Owner (RTO) rate is very high at nearly 30%. Every year, HSTC reunites 300 animals with their owners through our lost and found services. As we continue to educate the public on the importance of pet microchipping and offer microchipping services, we are confident that our RTO rate will continue to increase. This program also encourages responsible pet ownership.

Saying goodbye to a beloved pet is perhaps the most difficult part of the human-pet relationship. The Humane Society of the Treasure Coast provides low-cost euthanasia and grief counseling to the public.

We provide the ONLY TNVR program in Martin and St Lucie Counties (FL). Local Animal Services traps non-domestic cats and brings them to our shelter to neuter, vaccinate, and ear tip clip, before returning them to where they were found. This service helps stabilize the free roaming cat population. A full veterinary exam is also completed to ensure each cat is healthy enough to return to their home. If not yet healthy, we provide additional medical care and shelter until they are ready to return. Additionally, we also complete a behavior exam, to determine if any of these cats are eligible for adoption.

HSTC Pet Therapy helps improve a client's social, emotional, and cognitive functioning. Driven by trained volunteers and their certified pets, HSTC provides pet therapy to elementary and middle school-aged children in Martin County. This award-winning literacy program provides children with the opportunity to read to a trained therapy dog on a weekly basis. Not only has this program proven to improve reading comprehension and language fluency, it also proves to improve and support both self-esteem and confidence.

HSTC Pet Therapy helps improve a client's social, emotional, and cognitive functioning. Driven by trained volunteers and their certified pets, HSTC provides pet therapy to middle school-aged children in Martin County. This unique therapy program provides a therapeutic approach targeted towards children with special needs in the middle school setting. The interaction with these therapy dogs enhance the child's socialization, fine motor skills, balance, and coordination.

Driven by trained volunteers and their certified pets, HSTC Pet Therapy helps improve a client's social, emotional, and cognitive functioning. The biggest HSTC pet therapy program, Paws to Love brings our pet therapy teams to senior centers, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, and hospitals, to offer "wet noses and big smiles, all around". This therapeutic approach keeps spirits and hope high while improving resiliency and overall happiness through socialization within our communities sick and aging popuations.