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- 13+ acres of land
- Shelter of adequate size, fulfilling
our growing needs
- Larger parking lot, for visitors,
guests, staff, and volunteers
- Trails for volunteers and guests to
walk dogs on
- A much needed dog park
- Small barn for storage, and to
house miscellaneous farm
animals
- Classroom for humane education
and children’s camps
- Larger training center for dog
training and agility
- Surgical suite to spay/neuter and care for our adoptable animals
Since 1901, the Dubuque
Humane Society has reached out to
the community, appealing to its
sense of compassion and serving as
an outspoken advocate for the
humane treatment of animals.
What began 109 years ago as a group of concerned volunteers and philanthropic citizens in downtown Dubuque, has evolved today into a multi-service organization administering to the tri-state area.
Although many years have passed and times have changed, the mission of this organization remains the driving force behind its efforts, to promote the human-animal bond and the humane treatment of all animals.
Over the past decade the Dubuque Humane Society has grown phenomenally – from caring for 1,500 animals in 1991 to over 5,500 in 2009. Our adoptions have grown too – from 400 in 1991 to over 2,200 in 2009. Our volunteer base has grown from nothing to over 500 volunteers contributing over 13,000 hours each year.
We have outgrown our current
facility – not only the animal part but
the people perspective as well as the
parking.
We moved to this facility in 1992
from our old shelter on Center
Grove Drive. The new shelter was
over two and a half times larger.
We remodeled in 1996, added on
an additional 25 kennels, a training
center and a garage in 1999,
reconfigured the cat rooms in 2001,
added offices in 2002, reconfigured
the front in 2004, and added an
offsite adoption center in 2007.
We are currently landlocked where we are and have no room for expansion.
After months of searching and investigating, we have negotiated an option to purchase 13 acres from the Grand View United Methodist Church. The land is located behind the Star Theater near Asbury Plaza. In December of 2009, thanks to the generous support of our shelter friends, we were able to acquire the funds needed to purchase the land for the Animal Resource Center.
This amount of land will allow us space to have a shelter of adequate size, a larger parking lot, trails for volunteers to walk the dogs on, and a small barn for storage and to house our miscellaneous farm animals.
The Dubuque Humane Society is not a
part of the city or the county.
We are a
private non-profit 501(c)3 organization.
We take every animal that walks through
our doors and care for all of them.
All donations are completely tax
deductible, and will be accepted through
mid-December 2009 for this initial phase
of our new shelter project.
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Did You Know...
The Dubuque Regional Humane Society....
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Offers dog boarding, training, behavioral counseling, and
burial and cremation services. - Provides education programs, reaching over 5,000 children and
teens through programs like “Reading with Rover,” a program
that has been improving reading scores with kid-friendly dogs
as reading ambassadors. - Conducts five animal adventure camps in the summer for kids in 4th through 6th grade.
- Provides pet therapy, touching and enriching the lives of the elderly and handicapped through monthly visits, as well as bimonthly visits to a hospital rehabilitation wing.
- Our Kennedy Mall Animal Adoption Center increases pet adoptions (over 1,000 so far), promotes animal related gift sales, and public awareness.
- Reunites hundreds of pets to their owners each year.
- Conducts over 500 cruelty and neglect investigations annually to protect the animals and educate their owners in the tri-state region.
- Annually, volunteers give 10,000+ hours for our animals and programs.