The genuine animal welfare organization serving Hancock County, WV and beyond.
12/19/2025
Dear Santa Paws.
My name is Mildred and I am 4 years old. I came here almost 3 years ago with my kittens and my sister's kittens. I raised all of them and then survived FIP. I am very thankful to these wonderful people who have slowly taught me to trust and love. I love curling up in a warm bed or a fuzzy blanket with quiet gentle love. I really want a patient home that understands that I have cattitude and only want affection when I want it but I'm a really good girl. Please Santa I try to be a good girl!
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12/19/2025
Archie & Opie all cozy & warm, enjoying our 2025 Christmas Mewsletter.🎅😸 Hearing about all the amazing things we have done, with so many lives saved. Thanks to all your donations and continued support. 😍
Please, help us continue our mission and donate, saving more lives everyday. Merry Christmas Everyone, and a Happy New Year! Love Changes Everything.🐈💖🎄 https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=UB79TZDC3AYXU
12/19/2025
Pet Food Pantry
Sun 12/21 1-2pm
Very Limited Dog Food
Merry Christmas 🎅
12/19/2025
Goodnight, beautiful Amber. Your new family will discover you soon.
Forever Home for the holidays is all Vaggi would love. 🎅🐈This fine, shy boy was found living on the streets, rescued by our kind volunteer, just knowing he needed a better life. Get your application in today and come meet Vaggi. Adopt one on his friends too, make it a family. 😍
Love Changes Everything 💖🐈 https://hancockhumane.org/adopt-form.php
12/18/2025
Night night, sleep tight. 😴
12/17/2025
Who doesn’t love a cute kitty loaf or quasi loaf? 🍞 🩷 We have a lot of varieties. Stop by for Sunday Meet & Greets 2pm-5pm or schedule an appointment!
Ben would love a forever home by the holidays. Get your application in today for this sweet young boy. Love Changes Everything 💖🐈🎅 https://hancockhumane.org/adopt-form.php
Snuggled up all warm and cozy. Goodnight, friends.
12/15/2025
Barry looks right at home in his new Dad's arms. We're thankful for you both, giving him his own family to love furever ❤️. Loving tails, handsome boy....live your best life 💞
12/15/2025
Our wee guy Koa found his very own Mom and Dad! May the party begin, this boy has all the energy! We thank you for loving him and giving him his furever home ❤️. Playful tails, wee guy...live your best life 💞
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The Hancock County Humane Foundation (formerly Hancock County Animal Shelter Foundation) was established in 1992 after a county resident visited the shelter and felt we as a county could do better for our animals.
Starting out in a small windowless building, the Foundation secured a better facility for the animals and worked to raise the save rate for our county's animals by implementing new programs in adoption, fostering, spay and neuter and community education.
For more than 20 years, the Foundation worked towards a goal of not killing animals for space and convenience. Instead, we were able to provide veterinary and behavioral care for dogs and cats for issues that would have gotten them killed in the old shelter model, reserving euthanasia for only those cases where an animal was suffering needlessly or was a danger to others with no hope for rehabilitation.
Hancock County citizens responded to our success by voting 72.5 percent for a levy to continue to run the animal shelter in a humane way. Unfortunately elected officials chose not to renew our operational contract and decided instead to return to a kill shelter under the guise that it would save taxpayer money (the taxpayers are now paying almost double what they paid when the Foundation ran the shelter). The Foundation could not go back to that type of shelter operation.
The challenge continues and we feel there is a better way to care for animals in need. Our new name is Hancock County Humane Foundation, but our mission to be the voice for the animals is still the same. We are connecting animal welfare advocates in our community and working ground-level to make a difference through our low-cost spay/neuter clinics, TNR programs, emergency medical bill assistance, adoption events, social media connections, and outreach.
We are making a difference in animal care, far away from killing. We are working with many local animal organizations and citizens to save lives away from the shelter. Your volunteer efforts and donations are greatly needed and appreciated as we move forward in rebuilding a community that doesn't kill animals just to make the lives of elected officials easier. Please join us and be that voice for all animals who face an uncertain future.
