Bonnie L. Hays Animal Shelter

 

It’s easy to feel that working with stray and abandoned animals is an impossible task. The good news – and what keeps us feeling optimistic – is that we are we are part of thousands of success stories every year.

When animals are lost, we work very hard to find their owners. Last year, we reunited more than 1200 dogs and cats with their worried families. When owners don’t claim their animals, or when owners relinquish their pets to the shelter, we find adoptable animals loving new homes.

Working Together

If we can’t find a home for a cat or dog, we work very closely with a network of shelters and rescue groups in Oregon and southwest Washington that may be able to help. We have many placement partners that work with us to rehabilitate and find homes for dogs and cats.

We are part of a Portland-area network of shelters that have agreed to the Asilomar Accords. These organizations pledge to work in cooperation with other shelters.

Washington County Animal Services, Multnomah County Animal Services, Oregon Humane Society, Cat Adoption Team, Humane Society for Southwest Washington, and Clackamas County Dog Services meet monthly to work together in a network we call the Animal Shelter Alliance of Portland (ASAP). We work as a team to help each other out when one shelter is full but another shelter has room to take animals. We are working together on spay/neuter iniatives for low-income families. We share knowledge, information, and ideas to help the animals in our community.

Each member of ASAP keeps accurate, careful records of the animals that arrive and leave from our shelters. Those statistics help us chart our progress in saving the lives of animals in our community.

In Washington County we are proud that our adoption rates exceed national averages--and are getting better every year that we've been keeping these statistics.

You can see our statistics for 2009 and our statistics for 2008.

We hope you’ll spend some time to learn more about us, and will consider us as the first place to look for your next pet.