Stone County Humane Society Inc.

We are a small group of people who originally formed the 501(C)3 in 1999. We are retired to this area from other places and have professional backgrounds. Our President is a retired Air Force Colonel who was a nurse. She and others saw a real need in this rural community for someone to help educate the people on how to better care for animals and the need to spay and neuter and decided to build a shelter and start housing the unwanted animals of Stone County. I have been actively involved since 2008. Our shelter dream was finally a reality when we were given a wonderful gift from a local person who died and left an estate trust to us that will be disbursed over a 12 year period. We were able to secure a bank loan to build the shelter based on the annual disbursements from this estate trust and it was completed in August. We believe that all animals should be properly cared for and loved and not tied up in a yard or left out in weather with not shelter or used for breeding. We have conducted several small size rescues in the area over the years with the help of the local authorities and helped stop one hoarder who had 200 dogs at one time and could not care for them. The ASPCA was called in to help with this issue. We can only house about 20 t o 25 dogs and the same number of cats at any one time. We do not have a viable foster program to help take in more unwanted animals. We work from a wait list and take animals that are in danger sooner than ones that are being cared for by someone. Last year in 2016 we adopted out 128 dogs and transported 37 dogs to another rescue in Colorado that we work with that takes our dogs or puppies that we do not have room to keep. This shelter has a facility as well as a large foster program to house the dogs till they are adopted out by them. We took in a total of 170 dogs and returned 38 to owners who had lost dogs. We adopted out 59 cats, had 68 cats surrendered and spayed and neutered 249 animals.

Mountain View, AR,72560
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Email: [email protected]

Phone Number: (870) 269-5200

Website: http://schspets.org

Heidi

Australian Cattle Dog/Blue Heeler | Cleburne County, AR

Age : 9 MonthsYoungFemaleMediumAustralian Shepherd

About

Characteristics

affectionate cratetrained eagerToPlease eventempered gentle intelligent leashtrained obedient playful playsToys

Coat Length

Short

Activity Level

Moderately Active

Energy Level

Moderate

House Trained

Yes

Declawed

Yes

Good in Home With

Others DogsChildren

Meet Heidi

**UPDATE FROM PIP TRAINER: Everyone should know that Heidi's training is amazing.  Her basics are excellent, she has learned so many tricks, and today she demonstrated about 20 learned behaviors with hand signals only.  She is able to focus on her handlers waiting to see what it is they want her to do next.  She likes to be by their side.  It is just great the way she looks like she wants to practice her training and seems to want to learn more. I would love to see her adopted by someone who wants to do something with her like a sport such as agility or nose work or have Heidi become a therapy dog where she can visit nursing homes or do animal assisted therapy in nursing homes or a children's hospital.  She looks like she needs some kind of job but of course she would be happy in any loving home. ** Heidi came to us with her brother Hank, but looks nothing like him. They both have beautiful green eyes, but Heidi has short speckled fur, like a Heeler Mix while Hank has long solid hair.  Mom was a Pyrenees/Heeler mix and we don't know about Dad. Heidi came to us because she was killing chickens.  She has only been outside, but does not potty in her pen so house-training shouldn't be hard.  Heidi is very friendly, loves attention, and seems very smart.  She is good with other dogs and kids.  She would make a great family pet! *Heidi was enrolled in the Paws in Prison Program for 8 weeks of obedience training. She will be at the North Central Unit in Calico Rock. She will be crate trained, house trained, learn manners and she may even learn some tricks as well! Heidi will be looking for a forever home before she graduates in late April, so if you are interested in meeting her, please contact us! If you would like more information, please contact our shelter at 870-269-5200 or go to our website at schspets.org and complete an adoption application and someone will contact you for a meet and greet.

Adoption Process
We have an adoption application that can be found on our website and sent to our email or people call or inquire through adopt-a pet and petfinder where all our animals are posted and our FB page we call Stone County Humane Society Adoptions Available. It is a group page we use to find owners of lost pets as well as post our animals ready for adoption. Our normal FB page got hacked a few years ago and I have never set one up again. Our adoption fees are $100 for dogs and $50 for cats, and $150 for a trained dog through a local Paws in Prison training program we participate in every 8 weeks we send 2 dogs to be trained and adopted through this program. Our adoption fees include spay/neuter, rabies shots, 2 cat/dog shots and more for puppies, 4DXPlus Idexx Snap test for heartworm, ehrlichia, lime and one other disease, and worm medicine. We ask for vet references and get all the information we can to determine if a person can adopt an animal from SCHS.

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