Humane Society of Utah

We are committed to achieving the following goals for the welfare of animals throughout Utah:

Maintain high adoption rates, and place over 11,000 animals annually into positive outcomes.
Continue to spay/neuter more companion animals than any other organization in Utah, and consistently perform more than 11,000 of these procedures per year.
Advocate for animal-friendly legislation and ordinances in Utah.
Continue to expand our humane education efforts for school-aged children.
Expand our transfer and rescue network, which saves the lives of pets at risk of euthanasia, beyond the 320 rescue groups and shelters that we already partner with to save lives.

Through our public relations and social media, we continually broaden our reach throughout the state. By transferring and rescuing more animals from shelters all over Utah and from surrounding states, we will expand our ability to save lives and spread our mission to other organizations.

Our revenue growth through fundraising efforts has grown each year to cover the many life-saving programs of the HSU. We will continue to save more lives as long as our diversified development strategies continue to support expenses. In 2020, facing a world-wide pandemic and the economic impact of that, we were able to not only sustain our fundraising, but actually grow it to a higher level than even our pre-pandemic goals.

Even though we faced one of the most difficult years not just locally, but globally due to the pandemic, we were able to continue the life-saving services of our mission, adapt our education program to a virtual format, grow our pet retention program so animal never need to enter a shelter due to economic hardships, and open a low cost veterinary clinic in southwestern Utah, (St. George, Washington County), in a community with great need. Other 2020 highlights include: 339 pets rehomes through pet retention and shelter diversion, 5,361 homeless animals adopted, 2,025 animals fostered until they could be placed in loving homes, 106,398 vaccinations provided in two locations (Murray and St. George UT), 8,052 spays/neuters in two locations (Murray and St. George UT), 2,675 animals received via transfers from high kill shelters, and 6,778 children provided with humane education lessons.

In 2021 we hope to grow all of the programs listed above to pre-pandemic levels, and begin a multi-year capital campaign to build a full service shelter and clinic in St. George, Utah.