The Humane Society of Bay County

Do NOT believe what you hear from these people. They killed four innocent kittens with a horrid fairy tale they told my girlfriend. We recently found four roughly-four-week-old feral kittens. (The mom had been hit by a car.) We couldn't keep them for more than a few days, but in a couple of days we'd gotten them on solid food, using alitter box and coming when called with a couple of loud "click" noises. We only had them for three days, but they were just great. Unfortunately it's "kitten season," and so no shelters had space for them. When my girlfriend called the Humane Society, though, they said that they regretted that they couldn't take any more kittens... and that's when the Big Lie came out. "Take them to Bay County Animal Control," the Humane Society person said. (I wish I had her name, but I don't.) "They round them up and give them to PetSmart and they get adopted." What a relief, we thought. So we fed them, they visited the litter box and bundled up in the animal carrier that I purchased that morning for their trip to their "new home." Hell, I even gave them a $400 donation for providing a pipeline for the kitties to have an eventual home. No one said, "you DO know that the minute you leave this room, we're killing these kittens, right?" And yet that's what happened. Had I known that, we'd have figured something else out. Instead, a call the next day revealed that they had all been terminated without any attempt at all at finding them a home. Worse yet, the person from Animal Control said that (1) they weren't weaned yet (COMPLETE BS and I specifically told the person who did the intake that they were eating ("inhaling" is probably the better verb :) ) solid food. Big Lie #2 was that they "had a respiratory infection." I have worked with dozens of feral cats and about a half-dozen feral kittens and I've learned the symptoms or feline respiratory infections, and they didn't have that because, again, they're FERAL KITTENS, not kittens coming out of some random kitty mill. They killed four very smart and charming kittens for convenience's sake, but apparently that's the SOP at Animal Control. I don't like it but I can't blame them for it -- they didn't lie to me overtly. I CAN, however, blame the Human Society liar, the woman who sent those cats to an untimely death. I contribute to a lot of groups like them... but rest assured, not another penny for any organization with a name like "Human Society" any time, any place. I hope the woman who told my girlfriend her baloney "just tell her this story to shut her up" lie. If she reads this, I'd remind her to check the "bearing false witness" commandment.
1 8 years ago (04-05-2018)

This is an awesome place. I love going 8n and looking at the animals. They are very well cared for. The staff is very helpful and friendly. I wish I could adopt them all. But I have to many now. But never hurts to look. And love on them.
5 9 years ago (13-01-2018)

Adopted our sweet girl Molly here yesterday. They were so helpful and friendly; very easy process. 2 page application takes up to 24 hours to review. $130 adoption fee included spay and immunizations. The place was clean and orderly with some hard working volunteers. Their website is not current since puppies go so fast they said; best just to call ahead and ask what is available.
5 9 years ago (30-09-2017)

Great place! If you want to give up your furbaby, bring it here. They don't sell all of them to Pet Smart. Bringing them here is expensive but it's a good way to make sure they find a loving home unlike the animal shelter.
5 8 years ago (21-02-2018)

No kill shelter. The animals are such an amazing joy to work with!!
5 9 years ago (01-02-2018)