Precious Provisions

05/09/2023

Just sharing this again. Such a great idea for hurricanes and blizzards.

12/06/2023

We would like to take a moment and be really, real with you. It’s important that we communicate the reality of shelter life to the public. We are an open door shelter, which means we will not turn any animals away, but we are operating at full capacity. More animals arrive every day, and we are constantly operating at max capacity. Before you “rescue” a perfectly healthy “stray” dog, and bring it to our shelter, ask yourself:

1. Is this a healthy looking dog with a collar? If so, is this pup just on a walkabout? Have you exhausted all of your options to find this dog’s owner? Have you posted pictures, signs, spoken to your neighbors?

2. Is this a timid, feral dog who may be aggressive or become aggressive in a shelter environment?

The reality of having an open door shelter operating at full capacity, is if you bring us a “stray” animal, we are required to put it on a 5 day stray hold. This can mean that another, perfectly adoptable animal might need to be put down to make room for the animal you “rescued.” If the animal you brought us is aggressive or very ill, we cannot adopt it out. In our current state of limited room and limited staff, we do not have the ability to rehabilitate an aggressive animal (or the funding for extensive medical care). We cannot adopt aggressive or incredibly sick animals. It’s hard enough as it is to adopt out healthy, happy puppies.

Though your intentions are good, by bringing us a unadoptable “stray”, it can mean the loss of TWO lives. It means a shelter dog might have to be put down to make room for your “stray”, and the feral “stray” may need to be put down as well. This is the heartbreaking reality of our current situation.

We want to save lives. We want to help animals. Euthanasia should be a last resort. Every day our staff has to make hard decisions, and every day someone sheds tears over animals we can’t help. The staff who work here do so because they love animals and want to help them.

We are pleading with the public, PLEASE consider all of the potential outcomes before bringing an animal to the shelter.

It costs SCAWC $30 per day per animal just to feed and house, this does not include medical care. Donating $30 today will help us continue to care for the almost 150 animals currently in our care.

This is an ongoing community conversation and we thank you for your support and patience. We are furiously working behind the scenes towards a better future for the homeless animals of St. Croix.

27/01/2023

Traveling soon? Consider helping us get some of our feline friends closer to their furever homes! 🐱If you are traveling to Dallas, Chicago, Boston, Denver or DC and want to help (at no cost to you) please contact Melissa at (340)344-1447 or Tammy at 340-626-8800.

27/07/2022

July 27-August 3 is National feed a rescue pet week! We are severely overcapacity and have many many mouths to feed! Please consider donating the listed foods to our shelter and help us feed the many animals currently in our care. We could also use donations of cat litter and wire kennels.

If you are off island and would like to donate please visit our Amazon wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/genericItemsPage/TH5U3RZGT3IT?filter=&ty=wishlist&_encoding=UTF8&lid=TH5U3RZGT3IT&ref_=&sort=default&*entries*=0&type=wishlist&*Version*=1.

Thank you! 🐾🐾

08/06/2022

St. John Wildlife Rehabilitation and Rescue is an all-volunteer, charitable nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that was formed to provide assistance and care for sick, injured, and orphaned wildlife and to promote stewardship and compassion for the wildlife that call St. John home.

25/05/2022

22/04/2022

VIPD Reminds the Community That Animal Cruelty and Neglect is a Crime

Territorial USVI- The VIPD takes animal neglect and abuse very seriously. Animal Cruelty and abuse is a criminal offense and is treated with utmost importance by the VI Police Department. This applies to all animals, not only dogs and cats, but includes birds, chickens, horses and farm animals.

Any person who kills, beats, cruelly ill-treats, torments, overloads, or otherwise abuses an animal is deemed to have committed a criminal offense, and if caught, will face charges.
If you witness or know of any cases involving cruelty to animals, call your VIPD Animal Cruelty Unit as soon as possible or dial 9-1-1,

The VIPD have officers who are trained and ready to respond in both districts. In the St. Thomas/St John District, call (340) 774-2211, and on St. Croix, please call (340) 778-2211. If you make a report of alleged animal cruelty, the responding agency is required to investigate.

02/03/2022

𝓢𝓹𝓪𝔂 & 𝓝𝓮𝓾𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓐𝔀𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓜𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓱

We are celebrating by sharing some important benefits of spaying and neutering - and how you can help ♡︎

•
•
•
•

🇻🇮

19/02/2022

There is a movie coming out on Feb 18 called "Dog". It stars Channing Tatum and a highly trained Belgian Malinois. It's a road trip/buddy movie.

People are going to see this film and many will want their own Belgian Malinois. This is not going to end well for this breed.

A highly trained Malinois is a work of art. So is Michelangelo's statue of David but I don't necessarily want it in my living room.

This breed can be amazing in the right hands but they require a lot of everything. If you are considering getting a Malinois, please, first go meet some Malinois of all ages at your local rescue.

Be honest with yourself about the amount of time that you have to dedicate to training one of these dogs. Not the person that you want to be but the person that you are right now. Sitting on your ass and reading this post.

If you are still determined to get one. You can stem the inevitable tidal wave of Malinois that will be surrendered to the shelters by sourcing your dog in one of 3 places:

Your local shelter
A local Malinois rescue
A real, ethical breeder (researching one is hard work but an ethical breeder will prove their dogs and require that you return the dog to them if you can't keep it)

DO NOT get a Malinois from the guy down the street. Don't help backyard breeders line their pockets. Pure bred doesn't equal good breeding.

If you see the popularity of these dogs sky rocket and think you can make a quick buck by breeding some. May all of your financial ventures fail one after another.

From the bottom of my heart, I love this breed. I know what's coming and so do the shelters and rescues

-copied from another page but we back this all

05/02/2022

Have some free time on 2/8/22? Come help us get walk dogs for our Pets with Wings Humane Society of St. Thomas transport to Badass Animal Rescue !

We will need dog walkers bright and early! Hope to see you there masked and wearing closed toed shoes. 🐾✈️

10/09/2021

16/08/2021

The Senate Finance Committee on Thursday approveda bill that could allocate $100,000 from the St. Thomas Capital Improvement Fund to the Humane Society of St. Thomas, creating a public-private partnership that would help the organization construct an animal clinic.

15/12/2020

Latest & Greatest of 2020 🐾

13/05/2020

16/03/2020

FYI, knowledge is key in times like this.

09/02/2020

Volunteers needed for clean up in the Vi, let’s get to it !!! ❤️💛💚

A large-scale community cleanup of the St. Thomas East End Reserve is now expanding to include Salt River, St. Croix and Coral Bay, St. John and seeks community-minded volunteers on each island. Organ

09/12/2019

Special Kitty has been recalled 🐱

10/11/2019

BiG Changes coming for the new year!
Booked for 2019
Happy HoliDaZe

17/09/2019

Humane Society of St Thomas

14/09/2019

Donate, Donate, Donate!

Carribean Surf in Red Hook is taking on any items for Bahama Hurricane Victims

Humane Society takes towels, sheets, even pillowcases for cages & clean up
Also sellable items at their store

Salvation Army feeds the less fortunate & will take anything down to clothes also

Fills the Heart ❤️💛💚

13/09/2019

Still missing this little guy Jeter in the Wintberg area. Ca$h reward if he is recovered🐾💵
If you see something, say something
Thank You
Please PM me if any leads or call 340-244-4008
Brittany

14/07/2019

Thank you for a great season!
Send message inquires as we take a break this summer ☀️

01/01/2019

Happy New Year

29/08/2018

HappY FuR BabieS 🌴🇻🇮

06/03/2018

Praise clean windowS 🦋

11/02/2018

Thank you for your patience with the island wide power outage. Not much laundry/ vacuuming/ or cleaning in general to be done 😐

04/01/2018

Happy NeW YeaR 🇻🇮
Accepting appointments•
Needing a few days notice please so inquire for a quote🙂

16/12/2017

Happy Holidays from Precious Provisions♥️ Petsitting available*

29/11/2017

Happy Holidays
Thinking of leaving island & don’t want to interrupt your fur babies routine?!
Message Me 🐈🐕🐾

12/11/2017

Precious Provisions's cover photo

18/10/2017

Thank U so much for all your business & inquiries• Precious Provisions is going on a supply run with some fun✨ No deep cleans available until November 1st• Until then, feel free to contact me for small jobs 😉🌴🇻🇮

12/10/2017

Precious Provisions

08/10/2017

Cleaning up post hurricane seems to not be an issue WITH or WITHOUT POWER. Pls message me for a quote*