Every animal deserves a second chance

The Yakima Humane Society is a 118-year-old animal shelter dedicated to serving animals in the Yakima, WA area. We bring in several animals each day with the mission of providing them with vet care, including spaying and neutering, microchipping and finding them with a forever home.

One of the biggest challenges we face is finding the space to care for the overwhelming number of pets that come our way. These animals come to us via owner surrenders, strays, and our animal control unit. We are doing our best to promote spay and neuter services, but in the meantime, we have prioritized the comfort and quality of life for our shelter animals.

How are you helping?

• We have increased our staffing and recruited more volunteers. This allows us to stay up on all the feeding, medicating, and cleaning that come with housing 150+ animals each day. Most importantly, a larger team allows us to spend more quality time with each animal in our facility. Dogs need walks, cats need socialization, and every animal needs and deserves love and attention. We want to make YHS a factory for canine and feline joy.
• All our canine residents received brand-new, elevated dog beds. These beds are much higher quality than our old beds. This increase in quality will mean the beds will last significantly longer and provide a clean, comfortable place for the dogs to lay their heads at night.
• We have new play yard facility. The new 7,500 square foot yard will come right off the back of our building, making it easy for staff and volunteers to bring dogs outside individually and eventually introduce them into small playgroups. The play yard will provide the dogs much more outdoor time and the added socialization will be critical to their adoptability and future lives in their forever homes.