**Bringing people and animals together for good.**

For more than fifty years, Anderson Humane has been the leading animal welfare organization in our community. We have been dedicated to creating positive connections between people and animals from day one because animals make us better!

Today, we place more than 4,000 pets into loving homes each year. Our innovative programs make the healing presence of animals available to seniors, veterans, and those in crisis.

We help pet owners provide the best care possible to their dogs, cats, rabbits, turtles, and other animals through free training and resources.

Every year, Anderson Humane cares for more than 3,000 injured and orphaned wild animals. Our classes and programs help people appreciate and preserve these animals and their natural habitat.

Creating Connections

How we save animals, help people, create connections, and support families.

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Adoptions

Anderson Humane places more than 4,000 homeless pets into loving homes each year, saving their lives and improving the lives of their people.

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Healing Paws

Certifying therapy pets and facilitating their visits to hospitals, schools, senior centers, and other places where people need their comforting presence.

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Partnerships With Under-Resourced Shelters

Taking in adoptable dogs and cats from overcrowded shelters in other states and providing them a path to a loving home.

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Volunteer

Our extensive volunteer program enables individuals or groups to become involved in helping the shelter according to their interests and talents.

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Events

From devents to formal galas, there are plenty of ways for you to get involved!

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Low-Cost Vet Care

Ensuring that everyone in our community can afford pets and their proper care by offering high-quality, reasonably priced veterinary services.

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Wildlife Rescue & Rehabilitation

Caring for more than 3,000 injured, orphaned, or sick wild animals each year and humanely removing wild animals from homes and businesses.

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Training Classes

Offering expert advice and behavior training classes that help pets and their people enjoy peaceful and mutually beneficial lives together.

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S.T.A.R.

Short Term Animal Refuge fosters pets for people entering homeless or domestic violence shelters or facing other short-term crises, reuniting them when life is more stable.

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Military Veterans Program

Honoring our veterans and active-duty service members by helping them care for their pets when they can’t and reducing pet adoption fees.

Recent Stories

Bunny’s Journey: From All-Star to Canine Good Citizen

When Bunny first arrived at Anderson Humane in September 2022 from Oklahoma, she was an 8-month-old bundle of energy. Bunny needed help with impulse control, leash reactivity, and other behaviors...

Laurel’s Second Chance: From Surviving to Thriving

In July 2024 South Bend Animal Resource Center in Indiana reached out to us, hoping we could help an extra special dog. Laurel, a one year old terrier mix, had been left tied up outside an abandoned...

Screech Owl Saved

At Anderson Humane, we’re privileged to help wildlife find their way back to where they belong. Recently, one of our most heartwarming moments came when we released a baby eastern screech owl who...

What Drives Us

Our Mission:

To champion the welfare of animals and improve the lives of people through programs that create mutually beneficial human-animal connections, inspiring kindness and respect throughout our community.

Our Vision:

A humane world for people and animals.

Our Guiding Principles

RESPECT.

We believe that all people and animals have value and are worthy of respect.

PROTECT.

We believe it is our responsibility to protect animals and to preserve relationships between people and animals that improve the wellbeing of both.

CONNECT.

We recognize that people who experience positive interactions with animals and nature are happier, healthier, and have greater empathy and respect for others.