Pro-Life Shelter
Making a Difference
White River Humane Society's vision is to help and prevent unwanted and abandoned animals in our community.
Microchip
FREE MICROCHIPS
Please keep information updated!
Please keep information updated!
Thanks to the Bissell Pet Foundation, WRHS has free microchips for your pet. With proof of ownership you can have your pet microchipped for free. Call the shelter for more information. 812-279-2457.
Please keep information updated!
Please keep information updated!
Please keep information updated!
We have had several pets come in lately that could have gone home or gone home quicker if their owners would have kept their information updated on the microchips. If you change your phone number, please contact the microchip company to update! If you had your pet microchipped through WRHS contact us and we will update for you.
Just a friendly reminder...White River Humane Society does not pick up dogs or cats. Pets are brought to the shelter by city and county animal control and the public. When they arrive at WRHS they are given an initial vaccination (Not Rabies), scanned for a microchip, posted on our Facebook page and held for 7 days for owners to reclaim their pet. If not claimed, dogs are tested for heartworm disease and cats are tested for feline diseases. Pets are then spayed or neutered and then posted on our website and Facebook as eligible for adoption to the public.
Accidents happen..if you lose your pet check with the shelter and keep checking. WRHS will make every effort possible to reunite responsible owners with their pets.
Please spay and neuter your pets. WRHS has vouchers to help offset the cost. Please microchip your pet. WRHS has FREE microchips for Lawrence County residents.
Help Our Cause
Your support and contributions will enable us to help the homeless animals at WRHS. Your generous donation will fund our mission.
We're proud to announce we've received a spay/neuter grant from @BISSELL Pet Foundation! Out of BISSELL Pet Foundation's partner network of nearly 5,000 shelters and rescues, we're so excited that we were chosen to receive their support! With a mission to find every pet a home, they focus their efforts on adoption, spay/neuter, microchipping and emergency support. Thanks to Bissell, 107 dogs and 144 cats will be able to be spayed or neutered at a reduced cost, saving 1,000's of unwanted animals from ending up in shelters.
The Reason for Prevention
Wrigley (was Ol' Yeller) has found his forever family that will make sure he stays on heartworm preventive. Please make sure your dogs stay safe and on preventative also.
The New Year was met with our first dog who unfortunately tested positive for Heartworm Disease. Ol’ Yeller is a handsome 4 year old, intact male, lab mix that was brought to the shelter via County Animal Control in December. He belonged to someone, yet he was never reclaimed, so now it is our duty to treat his disease, have him neutered and wait until he is ready to join the list of adoptable dogs.
It takes about 6-7 months for the infective larvae to mature to adult heartworms. They are called heartworms because they live in the heart of a dog. They look like cooked spaghetti. The female heartworms can grow up to 12” in length. Heartworms can range in number from
1 - 250. The severity of the disease depends on the number of heart- worms living inside the dog and how long its been infected. Left untreated the dog can die. Since we don’t have any medical information on Ol’ Yeller we think it’s likely he has never had any type of heartworm prevention. His blood work will determine approximately how long he has been infected.
Treatment can take 4 months or longer. It’s a costly treatment and is not administered without some suffering from injections and sickness while ridding himself of the heartworms. He won’t be available for adoption until he has fully recovered and given a clean bill of health.
It troubles us when we know heartworm is a preventable disease, yet so many animals are denied prevention because owners don’t know the risk or won’t spend the money to avoid this medical issue. This doesn’t make for a happy start of a new year for the shelter and it’s certainly not a happy 2020 for Ol’ Yeller either.
This only serves as an opportunity to remind everyone to please protect your pet from needless suffering. An ounce of prevention is far better and less expensive than a pound of cure. Love your dog, do what’s right!
Peelers
SPECIAL SPECIAL SPECIAL!!!!!! WRHS now has peelers ON SALE FOR ONLY $5 each!! There are a lot of great coupons for local businesses and they are good until June of 2021. You can purchase your peeler from Tractor Supply, Don't miss out, we only have about 29 left!!!!
Pet of the Week
Cat of the Week
Bruce a very mellow boy that loves to snuggle! He would love to have a warm lap to sleep on. Bruce has been neutered, is up to date on vaccinations and tested for FIV/Felv and will be microchipped before being adopted. Come by WRHS and meet this handsome boy .
Dog of the Week
Snazzy Jazzy is our pet of the week, she's a wonderful sweet girl who may not have had a happy past. She was picked up along the road and brought into the shelter, she had wounds on her head, neck and her ears were injured. We don't know the story of what happened to her but she looked like she had been attacked. She is very sweet with adults, we don't know about kids, she seems to ignore other dogs. Snazzy Jazzy is heart worm negative, dewormed, up to date on vaccinations and will be spayed and microchipped before being adopted.
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Prevent a Litter, Fix your Critter!
White River Humane Society's vision is to help and prevent unwanted and abandoned animals in our community. White River Humane Society's mission is to care for the lost and homeless animals of Lawrence County, while providing education and services to the public that will lead to reducing the number of unwanted animals born in our community. Each adopted animal that leaves our shelter has been spayed or neutered. Keep in mind there aren't enough homes for all the litters born in Lawrence County, so please Spay or Neuter your pet.