HUMANE SOCIETY FOR GREATER NASHUA CORPORATION
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Mission Statement
We are an animal shelter that provides for and protects unwanted and homeless pets by connecting these pets with new, loving families via adoption. In addition we also provide low cost vaccine clinics and spay/neuter services for owned pets in our community.
About This Cause
The Humane Society for Greater Nashua (HSFN) is a community animal shelter located in Nashua, New Hampshire. Our staff and hundreds of volunteers help care for and raise needed funds for the approximately 3,000 pets we care for each year. Mission statement: HSFN advocates for and enhances the lives of animals entrusted to our care while educating our community to strengthen the human animal bond. Our major goals: • Every pet that leaves HSFN is spayed or neutered. • 100% of pets get microchipped prior to adoption. • 100% of pets have had their initial shots prior to adoption. • 100% of adopted pets have gone through an evaluation that ensures their temperament is suitable for their new home. • HSFN strives to match the right family and lifestyle with each pet, ensuring that pets are happy and placed in a suitable environment. • HSFN provides humane education to ensure a safe and responsible community for people and pets. Our programs are vital to the health, safety, and well-being of pets and people in our community. Our programs include: • Pet Adoptions - we are recognized in our community as the destination to adopt a new dog, cat, kitten, puppy, or “small” which include ferrets, rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, or reptiles. • Animal Surrender – We are the place where concerned citizens bring stray pets found in their neighborhoods or release owned pets when a family can no longer care for the pet due to loss of jobs, income, home, illness, or death of the pet’s owner. We do not euthanize animals for space or time, but will resort to euthanasia if an animal's health is beyond treatment, or if an animal displays sufficient behavior problems that adoption would be dangerous. • Dog Transport Program - This life-saving program is a partnership between our shelter and shelters in Texas, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Puerto Rico to save and re-home dogs from overcrowded animal shelters. These dogs would be in jeopardy of being euthanized if they had stayed in those shelters. • Community Clinics – We host low cost Rabies Vaccine Clinics in our primary communities as well as offer a weekly low cost vaccine clinic for owned pets at our shelter. In addition we also host a weekly low cost spay/neuter clinic for owned cats, kittens and male dogs. • Proctor Animal Cemetery - Located on our shelter property, cemetery plots are available for families who choose our cemetery as their beloved pet’s final resting place. Our shelter also offers a full line of cremation services and urns. It was the first pet cemetery in New Hampshire. • Pet Food Pantry – Any product donations we do not use in the shelter is shared, free of charge, with the local homeless shelter, low income residents who can’t afford to feed their pets, local rescue groups, and with Meals on Wheels. • Children’s Education Programs – Established in 2016 for elementary age kids. We call it our HERO program and teach kids how to treat and care for pets. We offer summer and school vacation programs including crafts, games and education and the participants engage in a service project to help our pets. We also offer a monthly “Reading to Rescues” program to let kids practice their reading in a non-threatening environment while socializing our cats at the same time. • Seniors for Seniors Program – Places senior pets with senior citizens at no or low cost. By waiving the adoption fee for older cats and dogs, we have placed over 760 senior pets with their soul mates since late 2006. This is a partnership with the Pets for the Elderly Foundation. • Volunteer Program – HSFN We are fortunate to have amazing volunteers who give their time and talents in ways that include dog walking, foster care, building maintenance, and fundraising efforts. Volunteers logged 20,500 hours in 2016!