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Heart and Hand Society, Inc.


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last checked 04/22/25
Heart and Hand Society, Inc. is registered as a charity with the IRS, donations are deductible at a 50% rate, as well as with the Attorney General of New York State, Charities Bureau. Our annual report is filed with the NYS Attorney General, and can be viewed by contacting the NYS Attorney General. Our annual reports will also be posted on our website.

Every cats life is important to us, therefore, we do not distinguish between young and old, sick or healthy, mixed or purebred, friendly or feral. We do not deal solely with cats that would be deemed adoptable. We are also concerned with feral cats and those who are in need of medical care.


Our Mission

Our mission is to eliminate the euthanising of the feral cat overpopulation due to the non spay and neutering of family pets. Also to make it possible for every cat to find a responsible home or, if feral, be able to live out their lives in a managed colony under the care of a caretaker.

Millions of cats in the United States and elsewhere are being euthanized due to lack of homes. The destruction of unwanted animals is inhumane, uncivilized, and a waste of taxpayer money. Spaying and neutering your pets will eliminate this problem and save millions of lives!


What We Do

Reduce the numbers of homeless cats by adoption, by Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR), for feral cats that are not adopted and by educating and providing resources to the public for sterilization of owned cats, so more kittens will not be produced. Overpopulation is reduced through spay-neuter sterilization preventing more births, and finding homes for the cats & kittens already born. Statistics show that spay-neuter sterilization is more effective in reducing overpopulation than adoption, due to the fact that there are very few homes for the number of cats born due to not spaying and neutering. Unsterilized cats reproduce very quickly and have many litters.


Address:
319 E. 50th St.-5K
New York, NY 10022

Call Us: 917-453-5728

Email Us: [email protected]

Do you need to find a loving home for your pet?

No-kill shelters do wonderful work, but as a result, are often inundated with pet surrenders. In the unfortunate scenario that you have to find a new home for your pet, please read through the rehoming solution and articles on this page before contacting the shelter.

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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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