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Haven Animal Care Shelter (Lubbock)


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The Haven Animal Care Shelter is a non-profit foundation, established in 1977 by Dr. Brenda and Joe Wilbanks. The Haven is a no-kill, non-profit animal sanctuary, and is generally home to over 100 animals, primarily dogs and cats. The Haven occupies a seven-acre property near Lubbock, TX.

In addition to special needs animals such as those with chronic illnesses and the elderly, the Haven shelters a wide variety of adoptable dogs and cats who are in need of good, loving homes. We encourage spay and neuter of household pets, provide educational programs for schools and community groups, and offer pet therapy programs to the community.


Address:
4501 N. FM 1729
Lubbock, TX 79403

Phone: 806-763-0092

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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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Hi my name is Erma Huey and I lost my dog on Friday, November 18th. He is all black with a little white. Fur under his belly. He is half lab and half pit. He goes by the name of Capone. He is an adult dog with a medium build. Please help us locate him.
posted by [email protected], on 2022-11-20 23:35:57
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He was lost in the 8800 block of 14th street Lubbock.
posted by [email protected], on 2022-11-20 23:36:51
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Hi my name is Yvonne I'm helping my aunt Ana who dog got lost or taken away. She was at the 1970 tornado memorial. And her dog Chanel was running around. She was there for about 10 minutes and she never came back she called for her and was out there for hours but never saw her again. She is a old Chihuahua with black and brown with white on her chest and white around her mouth and eyebrows she's an old dog. If you see her please contact me at 214-957-2390
posted by Yvonne Delgado, on 2022-10-21 19:41:09
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m name is mark I live in littlefield but my dog a short and chunky Chihuahua brown and some white on his chest. his names is Capone . this was in the area of 80th and slide on 10-4-21 . he has a tag with my address and number .
posted by Mark Nevarez, on 2021-10-05 17:14:28
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Hi, My name is Bradley and our Labradoodle, Pascal, got out yesterday (9/13/2021). We live off 86th and Slide across from the Golf Course. Pascal's coat is a dark brown and light brown mix. He does have a microchip. If you have seen him or found him please contact me at 432-352-2068. Thanks!
posted by Bradley Hilliard, on 2021-09-14 14:56:08
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our female exotic bully, Ezail got out of our yard 9/12/21 around 41st and Boston. She is black and white with cropped ears, 3years old and fixed. If she is found please email me at [email protected]
posted by bonnie cansino, on 2021-09-13 15:22:47
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LOST Female Gotti Pitbull solid white Missie is 1.5 years old missing from 54th & Ave.D possibly around 53rd between I-27 and Ave D we have a Cash Reward for her return home please contact me at 8065497608 with any info thank you for helping us bring my baby home...
posted by Stephanie Lynn, on 2021-04-11 22:01:41
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LOST DOG - Waffle -- very friendly about 75lbs, mixed, male, Red Collar w/Green tag (vet closed), Brown tan black & white, longer hair. Email is [email protected] and cell is 806-787-6137. Can send picture if email. Got out between 2-4 on Friday 26 & there are fliers posted. Thanks Gary
posted by [email protected], on 2021-03-05 20:51:10
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Looking for my dog , he is a brindle and white 7 yr old pitt boxer mix . last seen October 17 on east auburn and cherry. He is fixed and chipped and very friendly . #8062181899 is contact info
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I have a dog that’s lost and I need your help to make sure if she gets picked up she’ll be safe. You can contact me at my email [email protected]
posted by Dairrica Young, on 2019-11-22 16:02:22
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