| Policies
Our Mission Statement
The Central Brevard Humane Society provides an animal welfare shelter and programs that foster a humane ethic toward all animals. Our organization strives to deepen the community’s commitment to spaying and neutering, as well as to the adoption of homeless companion animals. We believe this to be essential to achieving our purpose of humane care and treatment of all animals.
What
is a Humane Society?
The Humane Society by its very nature should
reflect through its governing body and employees, those characteristics of being
humane: that is to show compassion, sympathy, kindness, benevolence and charity
to those animals suffering or distressed.
It should be a
non profit organization dedicated to the prevention of inhumane treatment of all
animals, and provide shelter and care for lost or unwanted and abused animals.
The organization should make every effort to return them to their owner or place them in loving
and responsible homes.
The Humane Society should keep animals for as long
as there is room for them and they remain healthy. Unfortunately, this is not always
possible if there are more animals waiting for adoption than can be cared for.
Those animals which are unhealthy or aggressive or those that cannot be placed
will be euthanized with dignity.
Through community education, we foster responsible
attitudes towards animals. True to our belief that animal welfare is crucial to
improve the quality of life in our area of influence, we sponsor the following
programs:
- Blood Donor Dogs & Cats for Veterinarians
at "NO" Charge
- Lost & Found Program
- Cremation Service for the
Public & Veterinarians
- Foster Care Program for Young & Old Animals
- Community
Outreach Educational Classes
- Volunteer Programs for Community Service
- Vet Rescue for Injured/Sick Stray Animals
- Hurricane
Disaster Assistance
Our Position of Feral Cats
The Central Brevard Humane Society supports the principle of "appropriately managed" colonies in an effort to reduce the overpopulation of feral felines.
Feral is defined as generally deemed not likely to be a candidate as a companion pet. This position parallels that of the ASPCA and the HSUS for responsible and long term management that includes, but is not limited to trapping, vaccination, neutering, identification, treatment as necessary, and ultimately, placement and/or release of homeless felines to suitable/approved environments in accordance with county/state ordinances where appropriate. Managed colonies are defined as those which provide, but are not limited to shelter, food, water and an established program of monitoring for veterinary care as needed.
The Central Brevard Humane Society acknowledges that while probably not the ultimate solution, "appropriately managed" TNR (Trap/Neuter/Release) Programs are a reasonable recourse in the effort to maintain status quo population of felines at large. |
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