Preparing Your Pet for the Cold Weather

Brrrr—it’s cold outside!  The following guidelines will help you protect your companion animals when the temperature dips. Keep Pets Indoors– Pets can get frostbite, too! Never leave your pet outside in cold temperatures. On freezing cold days, keep your walks and snow-romps short. Dress Appropriately – Just because your pet is covered in fur, doesn’t… Read more

Busy Lizzie’s Foster Feature

Busy Lizzie is at it again! This week’s foster features are Mervin and Violet. Currently they’re both living it up in the wonderful care of a foster parent where they get daily love and attention. If you’re interested in meeting Mervin or Violet, it’s easy to set up a time to meet them! Contact our Adoption… Read more

How You Can Help This Holiday Season

During the holiday season, it’s a great time to spread holiday cheer. If your heart is calling you to help our furry friends out, there are many things you can do! Adopt. If you’re in the market for a furry friend of your own, now is a great time to adopt. Add a four-legged friend… Read more

Holiday Pet Safety

The holidays can be an exciting time with people visiting, lots of packages, lights, music, trees, wonderful smells from the kitchen, and days getting busier and busier. To ease your pet’s stress, it’s important to try to keep their routine as close to the same as possible. Of course we want to include our furry… Read more

Busy Lizzie’s Foster Feature

Pepper is a beautiful 12-year-old girl who has been in our care since last October. She’s currently living in a loving foster home, because she is highly stressed at the shelter.  Pepper enjoys being around people, but more as an observer. She’s a social, but quiet girl, who will welcome her friends and strangers alike… Read more

Busy Lizzie’s Foster Feature

Meet Lizzie, a 5th grade student who’s an aspiring writer and cat lover! She offered to write descriptions of our foster cats to help showcase our loving felines who aren’t seen on campus.  Esmeralda is a 5-year-old torbie who’s currently staying with our wonderful volunteer foster parents, Michael and Tammy. They’ve been taking care of… Read more

November is Adopt-a-Senior Pet Month!

Now is the perfect time to adopt a senior pet. Why? Because November is Adopt-a-Senior Pet Month, and senior pets are just the best! All month long the fee for adopting a senior pet will be reduced! A majority of senior pets come to us due to no fault of their own. Sometimes their owners… Read more

Black Cats are the BEST!

The day for dressing up and trick-or-treating has finally arrived! Today is a day for our two-legged friends to go out in costume and enjoy a bunch of candy, but this day tends to bring on some bad and not so true reputations about our four-legged furry friends! Black cats tend to have a bad… Read more

Become a Foster Parent Today!

Are you an animal lover? If you can’t get enough of these precious furry love bugs, then you should consider foster care! Fostering an animal can be so rewarding and so much fun. We are always looking for new foster parents for our furry friends here at the Seattle Humane! Last year, 5,483 shelter animals benefited… Read more

Pets Get the Back-to-School-Blues, Too!

It’s hard to say goodbye to summer, not only for us but also for our furry four-legged friends too! As we get nervous to jump into the back-to-school routine yet again, so do our pets. Our pets enjoy the summer because it’s more time to spend with us! During the summer, most of us either… Read more