Humane Society of Northwest Georgia
(Serving Whitfield County)

Our Mission

The mission of the Humane Society of Northwest Georgia is to reduce the number of healthy animals euthanized in Whitfield County through the continuation of our successful adoption program, aggressive spay/neuter program, promotion of responsible pet ownership and humane education.

The Humane Society of Northwest Georgia, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and is comprised completely of volunteers.

The organization depends on special fund-raising events, donations and grants to fund these projects.

Education: One of our objectives is to develop and mold the behavior of children towards animals, and through the influence of children, change adult behavior. We work towards achieving this objective by: 

• Providing subscriptions of Kind News to teachers, K-6, to use in their classrooms. This newsletter promotes kindness to people, animals       and the earth and is paid for by HSNWGA.                                                                                                                                                                              

• Providing grades K-8 in our area with books, videos and classroom activities to instill in children, respect, compassion and responsibility towards animals. These same materials are available at the Dalton Regional Library.
  We also have a goal of teaching adults to understand and accept their responsibility to animals they choose as companions, and to understand the consequences of irresponsibility. Therefore, we conduct educational programs for community groups upon request, provide articles on pet care and responsibility to the Daily Citizen News and El Informador, and PSA's to local television and radio stations.

Rescue and Placement: We are now operating out of a leased facility where we house the many cats and dogs that are rescued but we are still limited to the amount of animals we can take in. Most of these are obtained from the local animal control facility where they face almost certain death. That facility euthanizes between 4000 and 5000 unwanted and abandoned dogs, cats, puppies and kittens each year, hence the importance of our Spay and Neuter program. We hold adoptions at our facility each Saturday and advertise that in the local paper and television station We also place our animals through various Internet pet adoption sites. With our new facility we project that we will be able to rescue and place on average, 300 or more animals a year to good forever homes.

Financial Assistance for Low Cost Spay/Neuter and Emergency Medical Treatment: By offering free and low cost spay and neuter opportunities for senior citizens and families with low income, we hope to some time in the future, alleviate the severe over population of unwanted puppies and kittens that needlessly suffer and die at the hands of the elements and human abusers. The Emergency Medical Assistance program is intended to help not only the low income families and seniors but also to assist the "Good Samaritan" who finds a sick or injured animal on the side of the road and takes the animal to a veterinarian for treatment and pays for that treatment themselves. In most cases, the person doing the good deed has a bigger heart than bank account and usually does not even keep the animal but gives it up for adoption. Good deeds like that should be acknowledged as well as financially assisted.

Elected Officers 2008-2009

President ....................  Micky Burrows
1st Vice-President ..... Catherine Riddle  
2nd Vice-President ...  Missy Mauldin                                                                                                            

Secretary ...................  Dana Richard                                                                                                                            Treasurer ...................  Tracy Burke

 
Committee/Program Chairpersons

Education..............   Nancy Mason                           Event Coordinator..........    Carol Burton    

Kind News.............  Catherine Riddle                      Legislative ..........                Micky Burrows

Membership.........   Debbie Daniels                        Newsletter............                Tanya Barnes

Publicity...............   Debbie Daniels                         Web Master...........               Carl Roderick                 

Spay/Neuter.........   Grace Cook                               Telephone............                Linda Roderick

Adoption Team Coordinator... Rita Burrows                                                        

Volunteer Coordinator........ Lynn Miller   

Advisory Board  Members    

Dan Davis
Jane Harrell
Dr. Jay Hendley
Minnie Marsh
Mary McCleery
Jeff Mutter
Dr. Timothy O'Boyle
Freda Stephenson
Gandi Vaughn