Chipotle Cares

For the second year, Kansas City area Chipotles will be sharing their delicious food to help local pets that are homeless. On Tuesday, March 1, all day, at all Kansas City area Chipotles – when you order (dine in or carry out) and present the approved Chipotle/Humane Society flyer — 50% of your purchase (up to $5,000) will be donated to the shelter pets at the Humane Society of Greater Kansas City’s no-kill shelter. Visit www.hsgkc.org to download the approved flyer.

We’re thinking burritos for lunch and tacos for dinner. Or maybe we should do burrito bowls? Either way, it will be delicious and it will be for the pets!

Targeted Spay Neuter Sees Results

In early 2010 PetSmart Charities granted a $25,000 gift to the Humane Society of Greater Kansas City for a targeted spay/neuter program. The program provides $5 surgeries for cats and $20 surgeries for dogs for residents in the 66101, 66102 and 66105 zip codes. These zip codes had the highest number of animal complaint calls from the local Animal Control facility.

After just 6 months, Animal Control noticed a 50% drop in the number of complaint calls in one of the targeted zip codes.

We believe the increased communication between the residents about these low-cost resources has not only helped to decrease the number of unwanted litters being born, it’s started to build trust between the residents, Animal Control and The Humane Society of Greater Kansas City.

The city has a spay/neuter ordinance, but without these types of low-cost resources available, a spay/neuter ordinance is doomed to fail.

Romeo & Juliet’s Happy Ending

Sometimes the stories that come out of the Humane Society’s Ray of Hope program can be difficult to hear. Luckily, Romeo and Juliet’s Ray of Hope story has a happy ending. These two sweet dogs (pictured) were abandoned inside a house after their owners moved away.  When the starving dogs were found a month later they were barely able to stand, but their tails were still wagging. The doors and windows of the house were scratched where the dogs had tried to escape. They’d gone through the trash looking for food and the toilet water was all gone. Romeo and Juliet were saved just in time. Visit their adoption profiles online at hsgkc.org to learn more about these two sweet dogs.

Ray of Hope is a partnership between the Humane Society and KCK Animal Control Services. This innovative partnership has dramatically decreased the euthanasia at the KCK Animal Control Facility from 70% in 2007 to less than 1% in 2010. (All the while, the Humane Society has continued to maintain our no kill shelter status too.) If you’d like to make a gift today to continue the viability of Ray of Hope and save pets in desperate situations like Romeo and Juliet visit www.hsgkc.org or call 913-596-1000 x 114. Ray of Hope costs the Humane Society an average of $12,000 a month. (This breaks down to $50 to save one healthy pet or $189 to save one sick or injured pet.)