Bitter Root Humane Association

03/24/2025

🐾🐾🐾Young love is a beautiful thing and so are these young babies. All of these friends are under a year old and have a very long life ahead of them that would be made brighter by joining your family. They are young and eager for a new life full of possibilities. Come down and meet them this Wednesday! 🐾🐾🐾

Clementine, Hanzi, Zeus, Mila, Denali (in foster), Sugar Ray, Bob Ross (pre-adoptive slumber), Kojack (pre-adoptive slumber)

03/24/2025

Loving that laidback kind of life? So are these fur babies ❤ Any of these loves are ready for a furever home as low energy as they are. Compatible with apartment living, a relaxing walk with their loved ones is all these babies need to feel complete. Come down and meet them this Wednesday!

DJ, Kodiak, Abby, Hedda, Rudy (and his "baby"), Nilla, Auggie

03/23/2025

We will be ➡️CLOSED ⬅️ to the public on Monday and Tuesday this week for staff and volunteer training. We will reopen on Wednesday, March 26th for normal business hours. Our pet pantry food will be available outside of the building again for those that have a need- please help yourself.🐾

03/23/2025

Lots of lost pets coming in lately. PLEASE, see us for FREE microchips and ID tags. Dogs ( and cats ) with ID have a better than 50% chance of reuniting with their families. 1 in 3 pets goes missing. Help them find their way home. Petco Love Lost Petco Love

03/23/2025

Take a look at all our adoptable dogs and cats! 😻🐶

As we continue to work on our website integration, here is a link to our adoptables. We appreciate your patience. https://www.petfinder.com/search/pets-for-adoption/?page=2&shelter_id%5B0%5D=MT19&sort%5B0%5D=recently_added

03/22/2025

It’s a snowy Saturday! Come visit and stay warm while you get to know your new best friend. 🥰🐶😻

Have you met Mr. Sandman yet? If you haven't, he will fix that. As the self-appointed ambassador in the cat rooms, he will be the first to rush and greet you. This sweet boy loves a good conversation and isn't shy about breaking the ice. Who will be the lucky one to claim him as their furever love?

Leia is a sweet soul who wants nothing but love for the rest of her life. Her eyes are that of an old soul just looking for a warm lap to curl up on. She has the sweetest meows to greet you in the morning and loves to sleep in her little hidey hole! We know she would love a quieter home that offers cozy places to rest her head.

This adorable puppy is full of life and expects to live it to the fullest. He loves meeting new people and playing with other dogs and meeting new cats. He is house trained and has mastered the art of push handle doors to let himself out. As all puppies he would benefit from additional training but this smart boy is up for the challenge. Kojack is half bluetick hound and half great pyreneese and only 5 months old with his whole life ahead of him.

03/22/2025

Please share and help out a fellow foster and volunteer for Great Pyrenees Rescue, Montana.

Please share and help Tim Cavey find a home for him and his rescue Great Pyrenees'! His current rental home is being put on the market & even if they let him stay the rent will be raised significantly! Do you have an empty basement apartment, mother in law suite, small empty cabin? Stevensville, Florence, Victor area. I truly believe the perfect rental is out there for him. It might not even be a rental yet. We have faith!
Must love dogs! 🐾
Any leads? Call Tim 406-544-9443

03/21/2025

We want to thank some of our Pawty sponsors! TrailWest Bank A2Z Personnel Bitterroot Drug Bitter Root Brewing The Spice of Life Cafe Tammany Veterinary Hospital L**e Quick Don't miss out! We'll be partying in our PJ's to support the animals April 5 -6.

03/21/2025

Way. To. Go.

The House Local Government Committee tabled S.B. 96 yesterday. That most likely means this attempt to prevent local governments from regulating non-farm animals in their own communities is dead.

We'll continue to monitor the session to make sure this bill, or others that harm companion animals in Montana, doesn't come back.

You did this. Well done, you.

03/21/2025

THANK YOU to our friends at Country Store in Stevi for their donation of pet food and supplies for our community pet pantry! If you need assistance, please come in and get what you need. Supplies are free thanks to donors like Country Store. ❤🐾

03/20/2025

This week our vet team headed to Hamilton for a spay/neuter clinic with Bitter Root Humane Association! Together, with our awesome partners, we were able to provide surgeries to over 50 pets in the community 🐶🐱 In addition to spay/neuter surgeries, clients also received vaccines and a microchip thanks to Petco Love!

We are grateful for our friends at BRHA and enjoyed serving the Bitterroot community ✨

03/20/2025

This sweet guy was found on Martin Lane in Corvallis yesterday. If you know who he belongs to give us a call at 406.363.5311.

03/20/2025

Still no decision on this bill, so let's keep up the pressure and urge the Committee not to pass it. This is our best opportunity to stop this bill.

It's not too late to tell members of the Montana House Local Government Committee to Vote “NO” on SB 96

SB 96 will prevent Montana local governments from adopting animal control ordinances and increase the proliferation of Puppy Mills in our state.

Key points:
• SB96 prohibits local governments from passing ordinances or resolutions that place an “undue hardship” on or ban activity relating to “working animals” or any “animal enterprise” in commerce, service, education, competition and transportation, among others. It guarantees a “right” to use working animals in nearly any way that an individual or enterprise chooses. The definition of “working animal” is too broad and generally includes any animal except those used in Montana for food.
• SB 96 will prevent Montana cities and counties from writing their own animal control ordinances. It’s a power grab by the State from local governments. This bill is overly-broad and could have far-reaching negative impacts on our communities, including prohibiting localities from passing laws relating to animal cruelty, licensing, dog bites, keeping and housing some animals, and could even extend to the reach of basic laws relating to animal care and control.
• SB 96 will overturn existing local ordinances aimed at preventing animal cruelty and expand opportunities for Puppy Mills to continue to spread throughout our state.
• The Montana Legislature has previously rebuffed any attempts to regulate Puppy Mills or to further prevent animal cruelty or the cost to communities by lawless animal enterprises through state legislation. Now they want to prevent local communities from taking even modest steps to limit the harm and cost these enterprises impose on Montanans. This bill does not protect working animals. It merely protects people who profit from using animals to make money from the inconvenience of having to provide adequate care to these animals.
• SB 96 focuses on preventing local governments from “banning” certain commercial uses of animals but this bill effectively prevents local governments from imposing any “hardship” on these enterprises without defining “hardship” [New Section 2 (2)]. “Hardship” could be a license or permit; “hardship” might be construed as requiring the regular feeding and watering of these animals…
• The bill language is so unclear, leaving locals to sort the bill’s impacts in real time—circumstance by circumstance—as they work to enforce or pass ordinances addressing animal care, keeping, and control in their communities, placing communities at risk of lawsuits, fomenting confusion about authority and enforcement, and having commonsense local legislation overturned as preempted by this bill if it becomes law.
• More than anything, SB 96 is an attempt by the Montana Legislature to take power away from local citizens to create environments that reflect their own values.

Ask members of the House Local Government Committee to Vote “NO” on SB 96

Send a message:
https://participate.legmt.gov/
1. You’ll need to register to use the participation system, but a login will save time in the future.
2. Select “Submit Written Comments”
3. Select “A Committee” and choose “(H) Local Government” from the drop-down list.
4. Select “Continue”
5. Type and send your message.

Tips:
• Include something short and instructive for the subject, like “Please Vote ‘NO’ on SB 96”.
• Keep your message short and direct. Sample: Please Vote “NO” on SB 96. It is overreach by the State in prohibiting local citizens from making decisions about appropriate animal control measures in their own communities and unique circumstances. It interferes with the ability of locals to prevent or address animal cruelty caused by individuals and businesses in their own communities.”
• Provide at least one reason for why you think Committee members should oppose this bill. You can adapt any of the talking points above, but try to put them in your own words rather than cutting and pasting.

You can also call Legislative Services and leave a message here: (406) 444-3064

Thank you!

03/20/2025

It was a BUSY last couple of days! THANK YOU to The Humane Society of Western Montana for coming in and working with us at our community spay/neuter clinic! And thank you to Petco Love for their continued free community vaccine initiative. Owners also were able to receive a free microchip and/or ID tag. Petco Love Lost BISSELL Pet Foundation PetSmart Charities Maddie's Fund Hill’s Pet Nutrition Greater Good Charities Wings of Rescue Banfield Foundation

03/18/2025

As we continue to work on our website integration, here is a link to our adoptables. We appreciate your patience. https://www.petfinder.com/search/pets-for-adoption/?page=2&shelter_id%5B0%5D=MT19&sort%5B0%5D=recently_added

03/17/2025

WE HAVE A FEW CAT APPOINMENTS STILL AVAILABLE! CALL TODAY BEFORE THEY ARE GOING, GOING, GONE!

03/17/2025

🍀 It’s certainly a month full of luck and love for Jax, Lady, Senorita, Klaus, Digger, Koda, Antonio, PJ, Ziva, Casper, Miri, Roni, Duncan, Spazz, Gilli, Houston, Cecille, and Angel! 🐶😻