Humane Society of Marathon County
...on a journey
Participants will either join us on site at Immanuel Baptist Church in Rib Mountain OR chart out their own neighborhood 5k route, and use their preferred timing method on race day.
In the meantime, enjoy a few photos from prior year’s virtual participants!
Bring your pets of any shape and size to have their photo taken with Santa for just $10.00!Color copies of your pets photo will be provided and an album of the digital image will be posted to our Facebook page.Proceeds support the animals and programs at HSMC!No appointment necessary, just come between 12-5:00pm and you will be assigned a number- your photo will be taken when your number is called.Humans can be in the photo or not, your choice and we can do more than one pet per photo.Bring some extra cash, too! We’ll have some baked goods and a donation station for browsing.We will operate the same as last year- you will wait with your pet in your vehicle until your name is called to avoid congestion in the shelter. Hope your pet isn’t on the naughty list!
Greetings to my friends at Marathon County Humane Society,
You may not remember me as it is 6 months ago on Mon. the 3rd that I left your place. My name is Chloe Anna Tews (CAT) and I just wanted to give you an update. (Picture attached)
I’m having a very good life and I thank you. We’ve made an old couple smile often. I’m healthy and have grown a lot in 6 months. I’m very muscular ’cause I chase glitter balls all over the house. I even retrieve for them which they think is cute. I sleep with them every night except when they go away. They do have nice people come in and feed me and visit with me when they’re gone but I still don’t like it. I have a wonderfully warm closed porch to sleep on during the day which I love. They have lots of company and I love engaging with all of their friends. They seem to like me too. So, I have a great life and I thank you. Keep up the good work.
Love,
Chloe
Fawn arrived as a stray to an animal control facility in Milwaukee before getting transferred to HSMC. She was very scared and very shy for the first month we had her; we gave her several weeks to adjust to staff before making her available for adoption. She’s so adorable and people fell in love with her right away, but she wouldn’t let her heart go to someone new very easily. She got adopted in February and any time a shy pet leaves for their happily ever after we hold our breath and cross our fingers that they’ll take well to their new surroundings and families. And then we get updates like this <3
“Miss Fawn loves to be cozy! Still nervous, but doing better. Thanks so much!”
Did you know that 68% of U.S. households, or about 85 million families, own a pet, according to the 2017-2018 National Pet Owners Survey conducted by the American Pet Products Association? That’s a great statistic in the animal sheltering world and one that we hope continues to rise. Knowing that over half of the available households already have pets, can make it difficult to find placement for pets that are particular and cannot live with other animals. We often hear people saying “I would adopt them if I could!” or “If only he liked other dogs!”
Even if your household is full, or if you already have a pet that is particular at home, you can still help these picky pets find a home! How? The wonderful world of social media, of course!
We are lucky to be located in a community that cares about pets and more specifically, cares about shelter pets! Did you know that we have pets featured weekly on a variety of local media outlets?
In addition to the pets we get to feature on different platforms, we are constantly posting about our awesome adoptables on our HSMC Facebook and Instagram pages.
Still looking for how you can do your part, even though you can’t adopt? It’s coming!
Even if you cannot adopt one of our awesome pets, you can still help us tell their stories. You can do this by “sharing” the posts you see on our social media sites, as well as on other local media outlets. “Sharing” a post improves the reach that each of our critters can get and increases the likelihood that someone out there in this great big world of ours will fall in love with that pet. Someone may come into our shelter to see one specific pet and end up falling in love with another. Someone may come out to visit and bring a friend or family member with them that may fall in love with an adoptable pet. So many wonderful things can come from something that takes so little effort.
We ask you kindly that the next time you see a fun post about an adoptable pet on one of our social media outlets, you press that little “Share” button and help us spread the love and the wonderful stories behind each one of our furry friends!
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