Humane Society

According to posts on Facebook, the Humane Society of Southern Illinois is closing down after 70 years. The facility will no longer accept animals after July 31 and, barring an influx of funds, will shutter the facility in December with plans to reopen in some way in 2025.

HSSI

 More pets are coming into the HSSI shelter. They are an "open access" facility, which means they take every pet left there and, when they get overcrowded, they either have to foster pets or put them down. Before you get outraged over that, remember the local "no-kill" shelters have the luxury of saying "We are full and cannot take your pet". HSSI is a small shelter than takes any animal brought there, wheter from an individual or Animal Control and works very hard to place animals brough there. If you can foster an animal, esp. larger dogs or for longer periods of time, here is the applicaton .

They can also use food, supplies, monetary donations and volunteers.

Pets & Pounds

It never fails to amaze me that people don't have their pets spayed or neutered There are about 43 million households with dogs in the US and about 37.5 million with cats, most with 2 of each. About 75% of those are neutered, however 90% of dogs and cats dropped off at pounds are not. And the top ten reasons someone drops off a cat or dog at the pound or shelter are.....