by Cailey Witchie | Feb 20, 2023 | stories
In partnership with Subaru USA, we attended The Chicago Auto Show! We needed a minimum of 6 volunteers each day, and had a grand total of 61 folks helping out during this 10-day-long event! That’s a grand total of 274.5 hours of teamwork. Our veteran volunteers...
by Carissa Hartwig | Feb 20, 2023 | stories
Zaira came to us from Shelby Humane in Alabama in early January. Our animal care team quickly noticed that her right hind leg was not working properly. After an exam from our Veterinary Team, it was determined that she would need surgery to avoid a leg amputation. A...
by Carissa Hartwig | Feb 18, 2023 | stories
Early Thursday morning our wildlife team received a call about an adult deer stuck to a fence. Officer Schwartz from the Sleepy Hollow Police Department was on the scene! Our wildlife team sprang into action and gathered supplies. This included a laundry list of...
by Greg | Dec 29, 2022 | stories
When Shannon and her family started fostering Reacher, a retriever mix, earlier this year through Anderson Humane, they thought he would be with them only a matter of weeks. Little did they know then that he’d wind up staying for seven and a half months, undergoing a...
by Greg | Dec 27, 2022 | stories
Felicity arrived first. The man who had been raising her since she was a duckling brought the one-year-old duck in to Anderson Humane’s Wildlife Center, seeking to surrender her. Felicity was in good health, but had imprinted on people, meaning she had attached to and...
by Greg | Dec 21, 2022 | stories
Spend much time in Meow Town, the main cat room in Anderson Humane’s South Elgin shelter, and you will realize two things: Ken Swanson is a regular fixture here and he’s highly valued by the shelter community. You could call him the Mayor of Meow Town. Five days a...