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Join Us for Walk for the Animals 2019!

Saturday, October 26 from 10:30am – 4pm at Watson Lake

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Yavapai Humane Society’s Walk for the Animals has teamed up with The Janis Best Memorial Run this year! Bigger & better this year with a lot of fun to be had, while raising money for all the furbabies at Yavapai Humane Society.

More information to come soon and registration will be available shortly! Get your teams together, get your friends together and get your furbabies ready… lace up those walking shoes and prepare to have some fun!

Community Partners

In The News

Expanding resources for pet owners in need

by yhsadmin | March 2, 2018 | In The News | 0 Comments

On Friday, February 23, Yavapai Humane Society celebrated the re-launch of its Second Chance Program. The program is an effort to provide medical support for low-income pet owners’ cats and dogs that have an illness or injury and nowhere else to turn. While this...

Hundreds of Pet Lovers get Their Wag on to Save Lives

by yhsadmin | June 8, 2017 | Fundraising, In The News, Pets, Walk for the Animals | 0 Comments

How could simply taking your dog for a walk raise $40,000 for pets in need? When more than 300 dedicated animal lovers come together to support homeless pets. It’s called peer-to-peer fundraising and it’s exactly what the Prescott-area community did for Yavapai Humane...

Dozen precious pups, all find fur-ever homes!

by Scott Shephard | January 18, 2017 | Dogs, In The News, Pets | 0 Comments

We have wonderful news. Today, Murphy was adopted. He is the last to reach his forever home of the twelve dogs YHS retrieved from a difficult situation on Nov 10, 2016. In an area low on resources in northern Arizona, a man took on about thirty dogs that had it rough...

Introducing our new Executive Director Jocelyn Bouchard

by yhsadmin | January 16, 2017 | In The News, Pets | 0 Comments

YHS Volunteer makes headlines

by yhsadmin | January 9, 2017 | In The News | 0 Comments

Yavapai Humane Society (YHS) volunteer, Sam Tarhan, was recently featured in an article by Nanci Hutson in The Daily Courier. We are honored to have Sam as part of our YHS team. Read the full article here. To volunteer contact Yavapai Humane...

Reviews

Testimonial

by Breeanya | February 26, 2018 | Testimonial | 0 Comments

Both of my two dogs I have adopted from Yavapai Humane Society, and they are the best! Now I am an employee at the shelter and love working for a great cause that I believe in. I know every member of the team really cares about these animals and has so much...

Testimonial

by Breeanya | February 26, 2018 | Testimonial | 0 Comments

We adopted our hound mix from Yavapai Humane Society about two months ago and they were so helpful in our process! We went in wanting to know about two other dogs and met one other before we found our Indy. The guy at the front desk was so helpful and ready to tell us...

Testimonial

by Breeanya | February 26, 2018 | Testimonial | 0 Comments

I adopted a cat from YHS earlier in the year. The staff was caring and wonderful and made sure that it was the right match for both Tucker and us! Tucker is amazing and wonderful and we adore him! Thank you, YHS, for making sure that we got a wonderful new family...

Testimonial

by Breeanya | February 26, 2018 | Testimonial | 0 Comments

I adopted my best friend from the Yavapai Humane Society five years ago and will be eternally grateful to them for saving my buddy. I chose the Yavapai Humane Society based on recommendations from friends, and the organization was everything they promised it would be...

Testimonial

by Breeanya | February 26, 2018 | Testimonial | 0 Comments

YHS is an amazing organization with great staff and wonderful volunteers whose compassion and love for the animals shows day in and day out. Having the live release rate they do is evident of the job done there and I am thankful that we has a community have a shelter...

Pet Tips

Companionship good for the body and soul

by Elisabeth Haugan | March 25, 2016 | Tips | 0 Comments

Just another amazing example of how your dog is really the best companion...a workout buddy and a source of unconditional love. The human-animal bond is so powerful! Eric & Peety (from Humane Society Silicon Valley)Eric weighed over 300 pounds, had type 2...

How dogs identify friend and foe

by Ed Boks, Former executive director | March 3, 2016 | Dogs, Pets, Tips | 0 Comments

According to a recent study reported in the journal Current Biology, dogs can pick up emotional cues from another dog by watching the direction of its wagging tail. In a series of lab experiments, dogs became anxious when they saw an image of a dog wagging its tail to...

Benefits to exercising with your four-legged best friend

by Ed Boks, Former executive director | February 24, 2016 | Tips | 0 Comments

Are you having trouble sticking to your new year's resolution of exercising more? Maybe you need a good physical trainer to help you meet your fitness goals: your best friend! Research shows that dogs are actually nature's perfect personal trainers. Dogs are naturally...

Beat the Heat

by Ed Boks, Former executive director | February 4, 2016 | In The News, Tips | 0 Comments

February is National Spay/Neuter Awareness month. Awareness can sometimes be uncomfortable. For instance, are you aware that 2.7 million dogs and cats are killed in American animal shelters every year? Are you aware that many of these deaths are unnecessary? Are you...

Lessons for Pets After Rabies Scare

by Elisabeth Haugan | January 21, 2016 | Tips | 0 Comments

When we got the call from Animal Control in early December that a domestic cat had been positively identified for rabies, disbelief and concern immediately set in. Our community hadn't seen a rabies case in a domestic pet for almost 50 years! The whole Quad Cities...