Northwest Indiana Bird and Ferret Association

11/11/2024

11/11/2024

Hey you... yeah you! As we enter the holiday season, would you consider becoming a monthly donor at $10/mo to help care for pets like me? I mean you'd trade one Starbucks a month so I can have the medical care and support I need to be ready to go to my forever home right?

You can sign up here!:
https://www.hshobart.org/how-to-help/monthly-membership

And if you sign up to take the 10 for 10 challenge and ask 10 of your friends and family to sign up also you'll be entered to win a $500 Southwest Gift Card and luggage set!!
https://www.hshobart.org/events-fundraisers/10-for-10-challenge

11/11/2024

11/10/2024

11/09/2024

11/09/2024

💜STILL AVAILABLE💜
This pretty princess is still available for adoption!! Velma is full of wonder and ready to explore her new home! She is a 6-month-old, female, DSH. Her favorite activities include climbing and stalking her toy mouse here at the shelter! Velma would do great as an inside house cat or as a mouser for the barn! If you're interested in meeting her, please contact us at 219-866-5756 to schedule an appointment and fill out an application at the link below!
Intake C152
https://service.sheltermanager.com/asmservice?account=tn3169&method=online_form_html&formid=51

11/09/2024

Have you met my latest foster Squish? He came from a rough start. Born neglected and then cared for by a neighbor only to be rescued by ABRA Angels. Squish is loveable. ABRA provided everything including a 25 lbs bag of kitty chow. He has all his vaccines, microchipped, liter trained immediately, and now falls asleep in my arms watching TV!

Do you love kittens? Would you have it in your heart to foster just one! We are trying hard to get three kittens off the streets. They are friendly, spayed, wellness check, treated for fleas. As foster you will be provided all the necessary supplies. Please consider fostering. There are four in this colony that need homes—FAST!

Reach out to ABRA, Inc. for a foster application. It’s not hard. I opened my home to one, can you? Abra is out of Crown Point but foster homes are all over NW Indiana. Just one kitten….one more life saved. If you cannot foster, can you please share this?

11/09/2024

11/09/2024

PLEASE SHARE!!!!! And check out Humane Indiana Wildlife.

Many people don’t understand the harmful affects of rat poison. We could save many lives simply by informing them…

If you are interested in a FREE yard sign to spread awareness about rat poison and it’s harmful affects, please contact our office manager at [email protected]

We can’t mail them but we can tell you where to pick them up in Chelmsford! Together we can save lives. ❤️

11/09/2024

This fluffy beauty is Buttons. Her fur is the softest, her face is the cutest, and she sure is adoptable!

When you come to see Buttons are her kennel, she comes right up to see you and only wants affection. She will look right past a feathery toy if it means someone will pet her.

Buttons has top-notch biscuit-making abilities. They will start kneading like clockwork as soon as she sees someone. Buttons loves soft, cushy blankets. Somehow, she gets even cuter when she is getting all comfy cozy and curling up in them. We don't know how, but she does!

Please ask to see Buttons when you arrive. She is about two and a half years old and is spayed.

11/07/2024

11/06/2024

There are only so many times we can say that animal welfare facilities are struggling. Eventually, we just have to show you.

In under 24 hours, SEVEN animals have been dumped at our Shelter, including the dog pictured below. Named Mashed Potato, this senior girl is fighting for her life after being left in our lobby with multiple lacerations and fractures to her tiny body.

We understand it can be overwhelming when owners feel they can no longer care for their pet, or when a good samaritan finds a stray and doesn't know what to do. But when the Shelter is overflowing with animals, our resources are stretched thinner and thinner with every animal left at our feet. It takes a mental and physical toll on the staff who work tirelessly to care for more animals than we have kennels for. It depletes our already negative budget to house and feed dozens of animals over our capacity. It increases the stress levels and length of stay for the animals in our care.

Nationwide, Adoption rates are plummeting at the same time that owner surrenders and strays are at an all time high. The math is simple: too many animals are coming in, and not enough are going out. We need to work together to bring balance back to shelters and rescues, and there are so many ways YOU can help right now:

✅ Adopt/Foster: Giving one Shelter animal a home, even temporarily, makes room to save another life.

✅ Spay/Neuter: The number of homeless animals continues to multiply due to pets having litters their owners can't care for, backyard breeding, and strays continuing to reproduce.

✅ Donate: Many times we can keep pets in their homes simply by providing resources to their families. Material and monetary donations help us extend aid to our community beyond what our limited budget can cover, and help offset the cost of care for animals like Mashed Potato.

Please visit the links below to discover more ways to help:

🐾 To view all animals available for Adoption, visit humaneindiana.org/adopt-a-pet.

💗 If you are interested in Fostering, visit humaneindiana.org/foster or email [email protected].

🩺 To schedule low-cost spay/neuter for your pet through Humane Indiana Estelle Marcus Pet Clinic, visit humaneindiana.org/schedule.

💖 Make a donation or find our Wish List at humaneindiana.org/help-shelter.

11/06/2024

Just wanted to say how much we appreciate the interest in getting a wish list for the shelter
So I wanted to share the below and let you know that we will have a donation box in place on Saturday that will be by the side door
Because our animal control officer is quite busy throughout the day she’s not always on site to collect donations and we don’t want it to be a difficult process so we appreciate your patience and thank you for all of your support

11/05/2024

Here is my advice to anyone wants a dog, 👻🦮💔.