Nebraska Humane Society

God Complex. We've been spoiling dogs (one dog at a time) in our home for 50 years. We've got oodles of "big dog" experience and have no problem turning a "bad" or unwanted dog into a well-adjusted and well-behaved pampered pet. We have money. We have a clean comfortable home with a big fenced yard. We have patience and nothing but love and affection to give. We took our youngest and only child at home.. our 16-year old son today to adopt a dog to call his very own... we filled out paperwork, and then waited 45 minutes for the Humane Society to tell us point blank that the dogs (one of them, an 11-year old German Shorthair!!) we wanted to meet "were not a good fit for us". We seriously walked out of there with the worker refusing to let us meet a single dog. INCREDULOUS!!! No wonder they have TEN PAGES of dogs imprisoned there, waiting for adoption!! The Humane Society has gone too far with their "screening process" and they are systematically killing chances of finding honestly good forever homes for these poor animals. We will NOT go back.
1 7 years ago (30-05-2018)

This place is very well kept-up and the animals appear to be healthy. My daughter is going their summer camp for the 3rd year and she is looking forward to it. The summer camp is well-organized and all the kids that I know that have attended loved it. Only compliant is the summer camp doesn't go all day.
4 7 years ago (07-06-2018)

It’s been about a year with my sweet cat that I adopted from the humane society. When I went to look at cats I had gone the first day and met the cat I decided to adopt and she was very sweet and friendly. The next day when I went back I asked to see the cat again because I knew I wanted her. I was told no and that the cat was very mean and they weren’t letting anyone see her anymore and made me look at other cats- but I already knew I wanted her. Anyways when I was done being forced to look at other cats I asked to see her again and was told the same thing... I demand to see the cat. She literally jumped into my arms and I took her home that day. She is the sweetest most well behaved cat I’ve ever met. I can’t believe they told me that! Either just dumb or keeping the cat for themselves. Anyways always trust your gut and see the animal you want too. It’s been a year and I couldn’t ask for a better cat!
2 7 years ago (26-04-2018)

Where do I even start? My fiance and I decided to adopt a dog last week from the humane society. We thought we would be the perfect fit because it is just us and we are so active on a daily basis. The only thing that worried us was living an apartment with a dog, so we asked a lot of questions throughout the adoption process. Firstly, the woman who worked with us was beyond rude, whenever we asked a question she would laugh at us because apparently there was an obvious answer. Secondly, like I mentioned it just my fiance and I, but we live downtown and there is a lot of kids down there so I made sure to ask about the dog's tolerance. The woman, instead of answering my question accused me of lying about having children in our home. Throughout all of this, we fell in-love with a dog and decided to adopt because this employee was adamant on how amazing this dog would be an apartment. We brought him home and everything was going well until we noticed he had extreme anxiety issues and would cry every time we tried to leave. Of course, the employee never said anything about him having issues in kennel or being left alone because he was a perfect apartment dog. Through it all, we decided to get him anxiety medication and use different methods to calm him down. Nothing really worked with him and the medicine was turning him into a completely different animal. After our neighbors cornered us in the hallway and told us they were going to call the police because of his crying during the day, we knew that we couldn't keep him. Our complex manager said if it didn't get better, he would have to kick us out. After a week, we were forced to take him back to the humane society. Since then, our lives have been completely shattered, we fell in-love with this dog because he felt as though he were our child. I can't tell you how much I have cried because of the guilt I feel over returning such an amazing dog. The point of this story, is to NOT trust what the humane society says about these dogs because honestly they do not know anything. No where on his report did say anything about anxiety issues and the employee even encouraged us away from one dog to this dog because he would do so great an a apartment. I am completely heartbroken at this point and just want to make sure no one ever has the same experience I had with this place.
1 7 years ago (08-06-2018)

All of the dogs I ever want here, I can’t take home because I have a 3 year old. It doesn’t matter how sweet the dog is. If it’s a little shy they won’t let it go home to a house with a small child. Instead, they let you take home small dogs that are extrememly moody and more likely to bite than any other, pit bulls that can be very sweet but since I don’t know their background I won’t bring it home when I have a small child, and dogs that only have a few years left. I think it’s just their way of forcing more people into taking home the dogs that they are “burdened” with.
1 7 years ago (28-04-2018)