A Letter from Thomas the Cat

by | May 13, 2015 | General

Dear Michigan Humane Society, I am writing to you a letter of great appreciation. Now, I am confident this will be a bit different than most of the gratitude you receive for rescuing animals and providing them with shelter and significant medical treatment when they...

Make Your Pet’s Health Care SIMPLE: Spay/neuter

by | May 11, 2015 | General

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pzsZSP0Nro] Spaying or neutering is one of the most important things you can do for your pet. There are many health, behavioral and other benefits to having your pet sterilized such as: Health benefits. Spaying females before...

2,000 Free Microchips

by | May 7, 2015 | General

Six months ago, we started on a mission to make the lives of 2,000 area cats safer. How did we do it? With microchips! A microchip is a permanent form of pet ID. It is about the size of a grain of rice, and injected beneath the surface of your pet’s skin between the...

Ask the Behaviorist: Barking and Lunging!

by | May 6, 2015 | General

Check out the Michigan Humane Society blog on Wednesdays to see common pet behavior questions answered by our Senior Director of Operations and pet behavior expert, CJ Bentley. If you have an immediate behavior concern with your pet, please call a qualified trainer or...

Celebrating the Pit Bull: Tige

by | Apr 27, 2015 | General

Each month in 2015, we will be celebrating the pit bull! MHS adopts out hundreds of pit bulls a year and love to show people how great dogs of this breed type can be. We will be featuring a different “famous” pit bull from history each month. Buster Brown, a comic...