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Since 1903, Pasadena Humane has offered lifesaving programs and services for animals and the people who love them in the Greater Los Angeles Area. At the Pasadena campus, they provide shelter, dedicated care, and new beginnings for thousands of the community’s most vulnerable animals every year. In addition to pet adoptions and foster care, Pasadena Humane focuses on programs and services aimed at helping people care for and keep their pets, such as free and low-cost spay/neuter and vaccines, a pet food pantry, an animal support call center, and licensing for nine cities in their service area.
But why stop at license fees as a means to support our local animals? We are proud to call Pasadena Humane an official Safe&Happy Partner. There are many ways to support their vital work, and we hope you’ll join us in our mission to provide them with all the help and resources they need.
“Pasadena Humane is more than a shelter. We are a resource center helping all animals in our community and supporting the people who love them.” -Dia DuVernet, President & CEO.
Pasadena Humane needs our help
As a community-supported organization, Pasadena Humane relies on the generosity of animal lovers to help support their mission. In addition to adopting or fostering, here are a few ways to help make a difference for the local animals in need.
How to help:
License your pet
License your pet
License fees are an important part of Pasadena Humane’s operating budget. Plus, lost pets with licenses spend little to no time at the shelter, opening up resources for the pets that truly need them. License your pet here.
Make a donation
Make a donation
Give today to help Pasadena Humane provide lifesaving care, nutritious food, and safe shelter for the animals in the community. Donate to Pasadena Humane here.
What is the Safe&Happy Fund?
In an effort to provide animal organizations with as much funding as possible, we created our Safe&Happy Fund. Outside of pet licenses, we will always donate 20% of every designer tag sale to our Safe&Happy partners in order to provide additional funding for vulnerable animals and the staff that serves them. Pet owners are also presented with the option to make a donation to Pasadena Humane during the checkout process
Pasadena Humane by the numbers
We hope that by providing residents with as much information as possible, the positive impact pet licenses have on the community is not just understood, but valued.
140
Staff
Members
1,319
Pets
Fostered
2,756
Pets
Adopted
40,000
Pets
Served
1,010
Lost Pets
Reunited
849
Volunteers
*Per year
More than just a shelter
Foster Program
Foster Program
The foster program at Pasadena Humane helps care for more than a thousand orphaned kittens, mother cats with kittens, puppies, adult dogs, and animals requiring medical care. Foster volunteers are provided with supplies and support throughout the animals’ stay in their homes. Want to become a foster? Click here.
Pet Training
Pet Training
Pasadena Humane offers in-person dog training classes and workshops taught by experienced, professional dog trainers. With offerings for puppy and adult dog parents, training classes help to strengthen the human-animal bond and encourage well-behaved pups. To learn more about pet training at Pasadena Humane, click here.
Pet Food Pantry
Pet Food Pantry
The Pasadena Humane Pet Food Pantry provides free food and supplies to dog and cat owners who need a little extra help. The program is open to residents of Pasadena Humane’s 11 animal control service areas.
Your license fees at work
Millions of pets enter shelters each year. The critical care, compassion and love that shelter workers and volunteers show these animals is unlimited, but the same unfortunately can’t be said for their budgets. When you license your pet, it isn’t just a fee – but rather, a lifeline – for animals like Scooter.
Scooter
In July 2022, a small, scruffy terrier mix arrived at Pasadena Humane, dragging his legs behind him. He was rushed to the veterinary clinic for an exam. After multiple x-rays and diagnostics, it was determined that this little guy had suffered a traumatic event resulting in the near paralysis of his lower back.
However, his front legs worked extremely well, so after fitting him for a wheelchair and watching him run around like a happy puppy, he was affectionately named Scooter. Scooter took immediately to his newfound mobility and began wheeling around the shelter with reckless abandon. His fun-loving personality brought smiles to everyone around him. He loved getting treats and chasing toys.
Despite his winning personality and zest for life, it took more than a month for an adopter to take a chance on him. Finally, a loving couple who had previous experience with a wheelchair dog came in and met spunky Scooter. He is now happily wheeling around his new home with his adoring family.
More about Pasadena Humane
We sat down with President & CEO Dia DuVernet to learn more about the important work being done for local animals in need at Pasadena Humane. Here’s what she had to say:
Over the last few years, we have doubled down on our efforts to be a resource center for all animals in our community. Our goal is to provide programs and services to help keep pets in loving homes with their families where they belong. Of course, we are always here to take in pets in need, but we want the shelter to be the last resort. That’s why we believe in supporting pet owners to prevent shelter surrender whenever possible.
We are passionate about reuniting lost pets with their owners. Along with licensing, we sell ID tags in our Shelter Shop, offer low-cost microchips at our community clinics, and post photos of all stray pets at the shelter on our website. Our Animal Control vehicles are all equipped with laptops and microchip scanners so that our Animal Control Officers can reunite lost pets with their owners out in the field instead of bringing those pets to the shelter.
We’ve also made some major improvements for the animals in our care. During the pandemic, we “portalized” our kennels. Our dogs and cats now have twice the room to move around in their kennels, which provides separate areas to eat and sleep. This has resulted in lower levels of anxiety and stress for the animals at the shelter. We even pipe in soothing music to help them be more relaxed.
These combined efforts have allowed us to give the highest level of care to all the animals in our community. Pasadena Humane is truly more than a shelter.
A pet license is more than just a tag! Licenses help reunite lost pets with their owners. Plus, a license proves that your pet is up to date with their rabies vaccine, and most cities offer significant discounts for spayed and neutered pets to help control pet overpopulation.
Best of all, tags are a great way to support Pasadena Humane. One hundred percent of licensing fees support our lifesaving programs and services. When you license your pet, you are making a difference for the animals in our community who need help.
