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Baltimore Humane Society


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In 1927, Elsie Seeger Barton founded the Humane Society of Baltimore County, now known as the Baltimore Humane Society (BHS.) Since that time, Ms. Barton’s selfless dream of establishing a refuge for abused and homeless animals has since come to fruition, situated on 365 acres of peaceful farmland in Reisterstown, Maryland. Over the years, BHS has provided safe and loving homes for literally hundreds of thousands of wonderful animals. In addition, Nicodemus Memorial Park, on the grounds of BHS, provides a final resting place for many beloved pets. And finally, the unused acres of land serve as a nature preserve, alive with deer, fox, several species of birds, and numerous other types of local wildlife.

Our Commitments

The Baltimore Humane Society was founded to protect our region's pets and to address their suffering. Since inception, the Baltimore Humane Society has strived to reach its potential and to achieve its mission. Over the years, we've adopted a set of tenets that represent our commitments to the pets that come into our care. All of our efforts are centered around one word... humane.


1601 Nicodemus Rd.
Reisterstown Md, 21136
410-833-8848
443-650-0631 (Fax)

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Feral Cat TNR Program
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High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter
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Rescue Groups
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Foster Care
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Comprehensive Adoption Programs
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Pet Retention
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Medical and Behavior Programs
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Public Relations/Community Involvement
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Volunteers
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Proactive Redemptions
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A Compassionate Director
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1. Feral Cat TNR Program

Many communities are embracing Trap, Neuter, Release programs (TNR) to improve animal welfare, reduce death rates, and meet obligations to public welfare.


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2. High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter

Low cost, high volume spay/neuter will quickly lead to fewer animals entering the shelter system, allowing more resources to be allocated toward saving lives.


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3. Rescue Groups

An adoption or transfer to a rescue group frees up scarce cage and kennel space, reduces expenses for feeding, cleaning, killing, and improves a community's rate of lifesaving. In an environment of millions of dogs and cats killed in shelters annually, rare is the circumstance in which a rescue group should be denied an animal.


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4. Foster Care

Volunteer foster care is crucial to No Kill. Without it, saving lives is compromised. It is a low cost, and often no cost, way of increasing a shelter's capacity, improving public relations, increasing a shelter's public image, rehabilitating sick and injured or behaviorally challenged animals, and saving lives.


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5. Comprehensive Adoption Programs

Adoptions are vital to an agency's lifesaving mission. The quantity and quality of shelter adoptions is in shelter management's hands, making lifesaving a direct function of shelter policies and practice. In fact, studies show people get their animals from shelters only 20% of the time. If shelters better promoted their animals and had adoption programs responsive to the needs of the community, including public access hours for working people, offsite adoptions, adoption incentives, and effective marketing, they could increase the number of homes available and replace killing with adoptions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, shelters can adopt their way out of killing.


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6. Pet Retention

While some of the reasons animals are surrendered to shelters are unavoidable, others can be prevented-but only if shelters are willing to work with people to help them solve their problems. Saving animals requires communities to develop innovative strategies for keeping people and their companion animals together. And the more a community sees its shelters as a place to turn for advice and assistance, the easier this job will be.


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7. Medical and Behavior Programs

In order to meet its commitment to a lifesaving guarantee for all savable animals, shelters need to keep animals happy and healthy and keep animals moving through the system. To do this, shelters must put in place comprehensive vaccination, handling, cleaning, socialization, and care policies before animals get sick and rehabilitative efforts for those who come in sick, injured, unweaned, or traumatized.


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8. Public Relations/Community Involvement

Increasing adoptions, maximizing donations, recruiting volunteers and partnering with community agencies comes down to one thing: increasing the shelter's exposure. And that means consistent marketing and public relations. Public relations and marketing are the foundation of all a shelter's activities and their success. To do all these things well, the shelter must be in the public eye.


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9. Volunteers

Volunteers are a dedicated "army of compassion" and the backbone of a successful No Kill effort. There is never enough staff, never enough dollars to hire more staff, and always more needs than paid human resources. That is where volunteers come in and make the difference between success and failure and, for the animals, life and death.


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10. Proactive Redemptions

One of the most overlooked areas for reducing killing in animal control shelters are lost animal reclaims. Sadly, besides having pet owners fill out a lost pet report, very little effort is made in this area of shelter operations. This is unfortunate because doing so-primarily shifting from passive to a more proactive approach-has proven to have a significant impact on lifesaving and allow shelters to return a large percentage of lost animals to their families.


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11. A Compassionate Director

The final element of the No Kill equation is the most important of all, without which all other elements are thwarted-a hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired cliches or hide behind the myth of "too many animals, not enough homes." Unfortunately, this one is also oftentimes the hardest one to demand and find.


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my dog Elijah is missing he's a african bull mastiff buerbeol he's 120 pounds he chestnut color wearing a purple harness he's very friendly has tag/chip/papers he was lost in catonsville area please find him thank you you can email me at [email protected]
posted by Andre Parker, on 2022-03-20 17:03:13
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I lost my small black dog in middle river
posted by Jordan McDaniels, on 2021-12-12 17:31:08
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How/when might I donate some cans of good cat food that my finicky, spoiled, no longer homeless boy doesn't like?
posted by [email protected], on 2021-11-25 16:57:49
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I have a 3-4 year old black male lab. He’a Up to date with shots/ records. He’s been micro chipped, is kennel trained and follows certain commands. He’s great with people, older kids, has a very family oriented loving disposition.
posted by Lisa J Addi, on 2019-10-21 22:12:20
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I have a 2yr old Siberian Husky in need of her forever home. Life changes has forced this decision. Her name is Cheveyo. She is fully immunized, neutered and microchipped. I have all of her medical records. She is kennel trained, housebroken and has some basic training skills. She is an alpha female, big strong and dominant. She is great with people and older children, young ones/toddlers she is good with parental supervision. She has been with cats but she prefers not to be. She is good with dogs with strong owner introductions. If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact me at [email protected] Thank you
posted by joelhski, on 2018-11-25 12:05:14
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I have a 4 month old black lab puppy. Needs a good home where he can run and have someone home with him.
posted by KathleenConnolly-Glitz, on 2018-05-11 01:37:48
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I found a kitty that I can't keep but don't want to just leave her to fend for herself. What can I do to help her find a home.
posted by BrittanyMclaughlin, on 2017-07-23 06:07:59
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I have a black cat that I had neutered and given shots, I call him Boo, I'm hoping to find a home for him. He is such a nice cat but I have other cats and can't keep him.
posted by JosephDekowski, on 2017-04-12 07:58:28
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I would like to know if you come out to pick up animals?
posted by PatriciaAMcGhee, on 2016-10-10 20:55:03
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Hi my name is Vedis....and I have a beautiful cat that I took off the street and I can tell she's not a street cat...someone put her out and I can't keep her because I have four cats of my own but I don't want anything to happen to her....so may I bring her to your shelter where I know she may find a loving home
posted by VedisAlston, on 2017-02-05 11:07:32
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