Humane Society of Northwest Georgia

The Humane Society of Northwest Georgia, Inc. is a 501(c)3 none profit organization. It is comprised of volunteers who are dedicated to educating the public about responsible pet ownership, the rescue and placement of animals and helping low income families with financial assistance to spay and neuter their pets. The organization depends on special fund-raising events, donations and grants to fund these projects. To enhance its mission, the HSNWGA focuses on Education; Rescue & Placement of abandoned animals and Financial Assistance for low cost spay / neuter and Emergency Medical Treatment.

At the present time, our organization operates out of a few foster homes and is limited to the amount of animals it can take in. Most of these are obtained from the local animal control facility where they face almost certain death. That facility euthanizes between 3000 and 4000 unwanted and abandoned dogs, cats, puppies and kittens each year, hence the importance of our Spay and Neuter program. Without a facility, our volunteer foster homes hold adoption days at certain locations, advertise in the local paper and television station and through various Internet pet adoption sites. We are able to place on average, 200 animals a year to good forever homes.

By offering free and low cost spay and neuter opportunities for senior citizens and families with low income, we hope to some time in the future, alleviate the severe over population of unwanted puppies and kittens that needlessly suffer and die at the hands of the elements and human abusers. The Emergency Medical Assistance program is intended to help not only the low income families and seniors but also to assist the "Good Samaritan" who finds a sick or injured animal on the side of the road and takes the animal to a veterinarian for treatment and pays for that treatment themselves. In most cases, the person doing the good deed has a bigger heart than bank account and usually does not even keep the animal but gives it up for adoption. Good deeds like that should be acknowledged as well as financially assisted.

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