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Heartland Humane Society (Corvallis)


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We do qualify as no-kill based on our actions, policies, and save rates. However, we refer to ourselves as an “open door facility” and we do not call ourselves no-kill. The reason is we are the only facility-based animal welfare organization in Benton County, Oregon. As such, we are a private non-profit AND we serve as the municipal shelter on behalf of the city and the county. We never turn an animal away. We receive strays, impounds, surrendered, and seized animals. Some of these animals have significant injuries or behavioral issues. We always evaluate and euthanasia is always a last option. We spent the past several years developing an amazing network of foster volunteers and relationships with rescue groups and other shelters. As such, we are able to save many more lives even though we do not limit our intake. Generally, we have found that the no-kill shelters in our area are only able to call themselves such because they limit their intake to adoptable animals only which results in flooding their municipal shelters with less adoptable candidates or denial of services for the community.

Besides creative adoption programs, fostering, marketing available animals in ads and social media, transfers, and comprehensive evaluations, we now offer to notify people who surrender or find an animal to reclaim the animal if that animal somehow becomes a candidate for euthanasia. We find this cultivates a community that better understands euthanasia decisions and can actively participate in the decision making process. We have also started a TNR program whereby feral cats are altered and someone has agreed to take responsibility for him.


Address:
398 SW Twin Oaks Circle
Corvallis, OR 97330
Phone: 541-757-9000

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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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Hello, I was wondering about your statement about "we always evaluate & euthanasia is always a last option, we now offer to notify people who surrender or find an animal to reclaim the animal if that animal somehow becomes a candidate for euthanasia". If that statement is true then why won't you allow me to retrieve my own dogs in your shelter that have not shown any signs of aggression or meanness? I believe they are on this list of a good candidate for euthanizing. Is it that you are only taking the word from another person, and not evaluating them yourself to make that decision to kill them? I believe your shelter should be the one to make that call and not the influence of another person outside of your people that work there.
posted by Amy Hollaway-McElroy, on 2023-01-27 23:40:05
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