help provide needed supplies

You can bring your donations to our location at 5720 SW 21st, on 21st and Belle! Our doors are open M-Sat 11:30am-6pm and 1-5pm on Sundays, and we have donate bins in the front breezeway, front lobby, and intake. If you are coming before the doors are open, you are welcome to leave donations outside our doors and we periodically check. Ideally, to ensure the donation’s safe and undamaged arrival, we do prefer if you come during our open hours, but we understand sometimes it’s easier for people on their way to work. 

You can also take donations to our partner, Market at MacVicar at 10th and MacVicar. They have a donate bin for HHHS and are open 10am-4pm Mon-Sat and 12-4pm on Sundays.

When we get neonatal puppies and kittens in, we use a specialized formula designed for those species (KMR for kittens and Esbilac for puppies). Since they have different nutritional needs than humans, we are not able to use human formula or human feed supplements on animals. 

Yes and no. We can use sterile rubber gloves, sterile isolation gowns and PPE, cleaning supplies, and sterile gauze. We cannot accept insulin needles, diabetic test strips, dialysis medication, or controlled substances. If you are unsure, please call us at 785-233-7325 and we can consult with our veterinary team. We would hate to waste human-centered items that could have been donated to other great organizations in the area. 

We used to use shredded paper for our pocket pets but have since learned that the ink and toner printed on the paper, combined with droppings from the animals, may not be safe as the ink dissolves. Now, we almost exclusively use pine shavings or crumbled paper/fiber shredding available at pet stores.

We can’t use pillows or furniture very often. These items are sometimes used in our cat colonies to replicate the feeling of a living room or apartment for cats, but often we end up with more than we can use and not enough storage for them. Please consider a local clothing bank so that our human neighbors can get better use out of them.

We’re old school and we recycle these for dollars! Every penny and nickle counts! 

This is a fun one! We use these for enrichment items. We make single-use treat puzzles, shred toys, and tuna caps for the pets in our care to keep them occupied while they wait for their forever home! 

We are beyond grateful to be part of the Hill’s Pet Nutrition Food/Shelter/Love Program, our shelter pets actualy eat Hill’s Food. 

However, we do maintain a pet food pantry for families in need to help prevent owners having to surrender due to financial hardship, and we put public pet food donations to that program. Your food donation helps us keep the number of pets we recieve down and cares for animals all over our community!