mardi 30 mars 2021

Can you help Audrey find her way home?

Important updates from Seattle Humane

Dear Friend, 

We're reaching out to the entire Seattle Humane family today — thousands of animal lovers like you — to draw attention to a very special dog. Audrey is a 3-year-old American Staffordshire terrier mix with big brown eyes and cute little white hairs sprinkled all over her face. She's been waiting longer than most to find her forever home.

More than 500 days to be exact. Nearly half her life. 

Audrey is currently living comfortably in a foster home, receiving all the love and attention she deserves. But she needs a permanent home. A family that will change her life. We're hoping this email will do that. 

Audrey originally came to us from California in 2018. She was adopted three times and returned three times. She's a sweet and mellow girl who loves nothing more than cuddling on a couch and giving lots of kisses. She's always up for a car ride or a game of tug in the yard. She's smart, too, excelling at the training and puzzle toys she's received in our care.

So why has she been with us so long? 

Audrey is dog reactive, meaning she needs to be the only dog in the home. Even seeing another dog on a walk is a challenge for her.

Here is what she needs: 

  • All outside exercise be limited to a fenced yard (or a rural area with no other dogs around)
  • No apartments or dog-dense areas
  • A cat-free home, due to a high prey drive 
  • Children in the home are teens and older 


Audrey also has a little quirk — she likes bright, shiny things. Lights and reflections, to be exact. She can watch them for a very long time. But with the help of inexpensive medications and some prompting from her humans, she will go back to doing normal dog stuff.  

We’ve featured Audrey in countless ways on social media and reached out to more than a dozen rescues. Nothing has worked, but we’re not giving up. Not on Audrey. That’s why today we’re calling on YOU and all members of the Seattle Humane family to join Audrey’s Rescue Squad.

What can you do?

Watch these videos about Audrey

Share this social media post about Audrey

Forward this email!

Audrey on the boardwalk. Forward this email to three friends who might meet her needs — or just three friends who love dogs! Urge them to share it with the pet lovers they know. The more people we reach, the better! 



Foster Audrey First 

The good news is that all potential adopters have the option of Foster-to-Adopt with Audrey! This allows you to give Audrey a try for a few days or weeks, with full support from our Foster and Behavior teams. If it doesn’t work out, you can bring Audrey back. It gives her time with a new family and we’ll know a little more on what kind of home she’d do best in. Audrey is also part of our Home Free program, where adopters set the adoption fee that works for them. 


We Can Do This

We know Audrey may not be the perfect fit for your family. But the right family for her IS out there. Help us find them. Our Adoptions team is here to answer all your questions about Audrey. Contact them at (425) 649-7563 or adoption@seattlehumane.org.

With your help, we know 2021 will be Audrey’s best year. And some lucky family will get to know and love this sweet girl with big brown eyes and little white hairs sprinkled all over her face. Thank you.

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mardi 9 mars 2021

Lending a Paw to Our Partners 


Seattle Humane Interim Life-Saver Rescue Program Supervisor Sarah Davidson holds Beade, a 6-year-old Chihuahua mix, during an emergency transfer of shelter dogs from Texas on March 2. Beade is now available for adoption.

Life-Saver Rescues Ramp Up!

These are busy days for Seattle Humane as our pet population increases with recent life-saving transfers. Following the devastating and deadly winter storm in Texas that knocked out water and power for so many of its residents, Seattle Humane answered the call for help from Houston SPCA. We teamed up with Three Little Pitties All Breed Rescue to raise funds and transfer more than a dozen dogs to the Pacific Northwest, where many have already found warm and loving homes. See their arrival here. 

Most recently, our team took the lead in taking in more than a dozen Mississippi cats and kittens when they landed at Boeing Field on March 5, a flight facilitated by the ASPCA. Luckily for these cuddly cats, it’s been warming up here in Western Washington!  Transfer flights from Hawaii’s overcrowded animal shelters are ramping up as well, maintaining our long-standing support with our partners across the Pacific.

Help us be prepared for life-saving transfers all year long by becoming a monthly donor and member of our Furmily! Gifts of all sizes provide hope to thousands of pets in need. Join our pack!



Bunny Clinic


Seattle Humane’s Vet Services department was bursting with bunnies last week, as we hosted a very special Bunny Clinic. The patients? Ten of the more than 200 bunnies and critters rescued by Seattle Animal Shelter in an animal cruelty case in West Seattle last fall. They needed to be spayed and neutered before becoming available for adoption. Performing surgery on bunnies is a delicate undertaking that requires a high level of skill, but our Vet Services team had the privilege of working alongside Seattle Animal Shelter vets Dr. Jennifer Bennett and Dr. Sarah Mantovani. The two not only volunteered their time to supervise the Bunny Clinic, but also used this as a fantastic learning opportunity for our Seattle Humane veterinary staff — expertise that was invaluable. Following their surgeries, the 10 bunnies were made available for adoption! 

Foster Parent of the Month

Foster Parent of the Month Barry Scott and his beloved cat Tucker.

Seattle Humane is fortunate to have hundreds of dedicated foster families, and starting this month we want to give them a special shout-out! We are beyond excited to recognize Barry Scott as Foster Parent of the Month for March of 2021. Barry has fostered over 100 cats in the 13 years he’s been fostering with Seattle Humane. He also volunteers for our Pet Food Bank, delivering pet food and supplies to families in need each week. As a foster parent, Barry’s specialty is in helping our fearful and behaviorally challenged cats. Learn his secret to success as a “cat whisperer” here. 

Our Wellness Clinic is Open! 


Our new Wellness Clinic, located inside The Schuler Family Medical Center, is officially open for business and ready to help pets and their families in our community! It’s an integral part of our Community Medicine program and our shared belief that people and their pets deserve access to high-quality and affordable veterinary care. Wellness checks, vaccinations and microchips are a new reduced-cost service we offer to income-qualified families. Toe nail trims and flea treatments are available too. Check out our new Wellness Clinic today! 

Critical Support for Local Pet Families

Elmo the rat and Nala the dog

Calls for help come in to our Pet Resource Center every day from families desperate to keep their pets, but struggling to pay for supplies, medical care or an emergency veterinary bill. Pets like Elmo, who was fighting an upper respiratory infection, and Nala, who needed a life-threatening tumor removed. For these pets and hundreds of others, the Pet Owner Assistance Fund was there to help. Established last year by long-time Seattle Humane supporters Anne and Jack Fontaine, the goal of the fund is to help keep pets with their loving families by offering the critical resources these families need — everything from medical care to short-term boarding, pet supplies and medication. Since its start, the fund has provided more than $70,000 in support, with much of that covering emergency veterinary bills.  

With so many pet families in crisis right now due to the pandemic, the Fontaines have generously pledged $10,000 as a matching gift to the Pet Owner Assistance Fund. We need your support by April 16, 2021 to help meet the match. Your gift today has the power to change lives and preserve the loving bond so many families have with their pets.

March Muttness


Help Seattle Humane net a victory during March Muttness, a virtual fundraising competition that benefits animal shelters across the country! It’s a friendly competition, highlighting all of our amazing, adoptable pets while raising funds to help them on their journey home. Let’s make this a slam dunk! Support Seattle Humane and our adoptable players by clicking the Seattle Humane logo towards the bottom of the page to donate!  

Senior Cats ‘Feline Energized’ in New Home

Pictured on the left, 8-year-old Timber (now Pepper) came to Seattle Humane with her bonded pal 12-year-old Sir Purrs Jackson (now Pumpernickel). They were adopted Nov. 27, 2020.

“Wow, I cannot believe it’s only been three months. I feel like I’ve had these lovely beings forever. Pepper and Pumpernickel are both very healthy and sticking well to their diets. Although they are both older and each face health issues, you could never tell just by spending time with them. Pumpernickel has the energy of a kitten, while also being extremely intelligent and aware of his surroundings. Pepper is also playful, upbeat, and extremely brave — she has even made friends with some other cats in our apartment complex and loves meeting new people, who she views as potential belly rubbers. They are both so special, and I feel entirely lucky they found their way to me. Thank you so much!” — Cassie  

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vendredi 12 février 2021

Thank you for supporting Seattle Humane's Lunch Bytes!

Thank you to everyone who tuned in for Lunch Bytes yesterday!

For those of you who missed the show, you can watch the full program and learn more about Seattle Humane’s work in the video links below. Thanks to our generous family of supporters and sponsors, we are just $4,000 away from reaching our Lunch Bytes fundraising goal! Every dollar you give supports Seattle Humane's mission of saving lives and completing families.

Please consider making a gift through our Lunch Bytes site, available until Monday here.

You can make an even greater impact when you join the Furmily, with a small monthly gift to support life-saving care and programs at Seattle Humane year-round.

Please take a moment to complete this short survey and let us know how you’d like to be involved. Thank you for your support and partnership!


Lunch Bytes Videos:
Lunch Bytes Program
Keynote Speakers Ava and Novia, Humane Pet Sales Bill
Christopher Ross, Seattle Humane CEO
Innovations at Seattle Humane
Impact of Your Support


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mardi 9 février 2021

Hitting the Ground Running in 2021 (plus a pile of puppies we helped!)


These adorable pups have all been adopted, and we aim to help many more just like them in 2021!



Hitting the Ground Running and New Support for Pet Owners!

As you can imagine, the last few weeks have been incredibly busy for all of us at Seattle Humane, but especially our new CEO Christopher Ross. Since joining us in January, he's spent much of his time learning about Seattle Humane and its dedicated team of staff, volunteers, foster families and the wonderful supporters who make our life-saving work possible. It's a fact — 90% of our funding comes from generous community support and we could not be more grateful for it. (Read on to see how you can help pets in need this week — and meet Christopher at our upcoming virtual luncheon!)

“It has been very clear, in the short time I have been with the organization, the impact of community outreach, a critical service offered prior to the pandemic, and Seattle Humane’s ability to expand access to those resources as part of their emergency response. It is heartwarming that, rather than just being a last resort for pets, we are also helping to keep animals out of the shelter system altogether, and we do that by making sure pet families have the resources they need. And we are doing all of this while remaining committed to sheltering unhoused pets until they find their new families,” Christopher said.

Just the other day, we were able to help the puppies you see above and their hardworking mama dog through our Pets For Life and Mom's Last Litter programs. Not familiar with them? You can read all about them in our new, expanded “Services” section on our website, including this Support for Pet Owners page, which lists all our innovative programs helping pets and their families in our community.

The pups pictured above were adopted out shortly after their spay and neuter surgeries. See it all in this video (c'mon, how can you resist seeing seven incredibly cute puppies piled in a bin?).

New Year, New Gear!


Our new online store is up and running, offering everything from mugs, hoodies and shirts to baby onesies, masks, even phone cases! Proceeds from every purchase go to support our mission.
Start shopping and support Seattle Humane in style!

Join us for Lunch Bytes Feb. 11!


There's still time to sign up for our first-ever virtual luncheon event this Thursday from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.! We've got a great program planned — our new CEO Christopher Ross will be speaking, along with two graduates of our Humane Teen Club who are doing amazing work in animal welfare. You'll also hear about all the changes we've made since the start of the pandemic, and the innovative ways we've met the challenges. A panel from our staff will also answer all your pet-related questions.

Event registration will close at 2 p.m. on February 10.
Sign up for Lunch Bytes now!

Will You Join Our Furmily?


Seattle Humane is looking for 100 supporters to join our Furmily monthly giving program and help ensure pets in our community have the care and support they need. When you join us as a new monthly donor this month, you'll help cats, dogs and critters all year long!

Your monthly gifts will help us support thousands of pets this year!

Your impact by joining our Furmily includes:
  • All gifts, both large and small, have a huge impact, including medical care, enrichment and love.
  • Your gifts provide reliable, sustaining support for pets in need throughout the year!
  • Less mail — save a tree!
You can change or stop your gift at any time by emailing donations@seattlehumane.org or by calling (425) 373-5382.

Please help provide second chances to pets in need by becoming a Furmily Monthly Donor today. Thank you!



Silver (now Bean) — 'She's home.'

Picked up as a stray in Yakima, 10-month-old Bean came to us in late December through our Life-Saver program. She was adopted by her new adoring family Dec. 30, 2020.

"Here is Silver (now known as Bean), feeling right at home with our family. Our girls are just in love with her, and Bean follows them around everywhere looking for cuddles and attention. She is just the sweetest, friendliest, and most understanding cat ever. We are so lucky that she joined our family! We just can't imagine life without her now! 💜 Here are a few of the approximately one million photos I have of her on my phone Thank you again for all of your help." — Dawn

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lundi 8 février 2021

Last Chance to Register for Lunch Bytes! 

Lunch Bytes registration will close at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, February 10.

Be sure to register here for this free virtual luncheon if you haven’t already! Thanks to our generous sponsors, your donations will be matched 100% up to $17,500. Help us unlock that match with a gift today! You will also have the opportunity to make an impact during the event on February 11. 

Your giving can go even further if you join the Furmily. When you commit to donating $25/month for the next year, you will generate another $300 to help unlock our sponsor match! This is an easy way to support life-saving care and programs at Seattle Humane year-round. Sign up here.

Thank you for your support of Seattle Humane, and we hope to see you at Lunch Bytes!

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