Come meet adoptable cats and kittens! Visit our website for a sneak peek of cats and kittens that are available!
To volunteer and/or bring your foster animals, please click on the following link or copy the link into a new browser window:
The volunteer sign up for events is for current volunteers who have attended our Volunteer Orientation and signed a Volunteer Agreement. Contact HELPANIMALS@HUMANELOUDOUN.ORG for more information.
Come meet adoptable cats and kittens! Visit our website for a sneak peek of cats and kittens that are available!
To volunteer and/or bring your foster animals, please click on the following link or copy the link into a new browser window:
The volunteer sign up for events is for current volunteers who have attended our Volunteer Orientation and signed a Volunteer Agreement. Contact HELPANIMALS@HUMANELOUDOUN.ORG for more information.
Come meet adoptable cats and kittens! Visit our website for a sneak peek of cats and kittens that are available!
To volunteer and/or bring your foster animals, please click on the following link or copy the link into a new browser window:
The volunteer sign up for events is for current volunteers who have attended our Volunteer Orientation and signed a Volunteer Agreement. Contact HELPANIMALS@HUMANELOUDOUN.ORG for more information.
By Anne Senft
On August 17, tens of thousands of animals found their forever families as a result of Clear the Shelters adoption events across the nation.
The Humane Society of Loudoun County adopted out one of our young cats that day. His name was Mellow.
After weeks of preparing for the event, you can imagine how heartbroken we were that more of our wonderful animals didn’t find their forever homes that day—including our celebrity kitties, Margo and Mr. Meow Meow.
To help me bounce back personally, I headed to my favorite yoga studio where the instructor told us a story. While it was a story I had heard many times before, the timing couldn’t have been more perfect.
THE STARFISH Story
by Loren Eiseley
One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking up and gently throwing things into the ocean.
Approaching the boy he asked: “Young man, what are you doing?”
The boy replied, “Throwing starfish back into the ocean. The surf is up and the tide is going out. If I don’t throw them back, they’ll die.”
The man laughed to himself and said, “Do you realize there are miles and miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish? You can’t make any difference.”
After listening politely, the boy bent down, picked up another starfish and threw it into the surf. Then smiling at the man, he said: “I made a difference to that one.”
Mellow was that lucky starfish who got his second chance on August 17. I happened to be nearby when the teenage daughter let the foster mom know that her family was adopting Mellow.
I wish I could capture in words the pure joy I saw on the foster’s face. She was so relieved that Mellow was going to a loving home. She gave the daughter a big hug. What a wonderful addition to the family Mellow would make.
HSLC doesn’t have a physical shelter. We rely heavily on a network of dedicated foster moms and dads to provide our at-risk animals the safe haven they need while waiting for their forever families. We are so thankful to them along with our caring volunteers and generous donors who make it possible to provide the second chances these animals deserve.
Adoption events like Clear the Shelters wouldn’t be possible without our wonderful fosters, volunteers and donors.
One day isn’t going to keep us down. Together with your help, we will continue to fight—day after day—for the abused, neglected and abandoned animals who are counting on us to rescue them.
Because, after all, there are still a lot of starfish we must save.
Come meet adoptable cats and kittens! Visit our website for a sneak peek of cats and kittens that are available!
To volunteer and/or bring your foster animals, please click on the following link or copy the link into a new browser window:
The volunteer sign up for events is for current volunteers who have attended our Volunteer Orientation and signed a Volunteer Agreement. Contact HELPANIMALS@HUMANELOUDOUN.ORG for more information.
Come meet adoptable cats and kittens! Visit our website for a sneak peek of cats and kittens that are available!
To volunteer and/or bring your foster animals, please click on the following link or copy the link into a new browser window:
The volunteer sign up for events is for current volunteers who have attended our Volunteer Orientation and signed a Volunteer Agreement. Contact HELPANIMALS@HUMANELOUDOUN.ORG for more information.
Come meet adoptable cats and kittens! Visit our website for a sneak peek of cats and kittens that are available!
To volunteer and/or bring your foster animals, please click on the following link or copy the link into a new browser window:
The volunteer sign up for events is for current volunteers who have attended our Volunteer Orientation and signed a Volunteer Agreement. Contact HELPANIMALS@HUMANELOUDOUN.ORG for more information.
NBC and Telemundo owned stations are teaming up with hundreds of shelters and rescue organizations across the country to host Clear the Shelters, a nationwide pet adoption drive on Saturday, August 17 to help find loving homes for animals in need. More than 250,000 pets have found their forever homes since 2015.
The Humane Society of Loudoun County will participate in this annual event by holding an adoption event at the Leesburg PetSmart from 11:00 to 2:00 on the 17th. We will be waiving all adoption fees for the event but need sponsors to help make that possible. Sponsorships will help cover the higher than normal medical expenses we have faced due to an influx of homeless animals this year.
Current adoption fees are $150 for cats and $300 for dogs. If you are able to sponsor or co-sponsor an animal, please:
- Visit the adoptable animals on our website.
- Choose the animal you would like to sponsor or co-sponsor.
- Make a donation and, in the dedication section, let us know which animal you are sponsoring. If you prefer not to choose, just type “CTS adoption event”.
NOTE: If you are donating from a mobile device, there is no dedication field. Simply email anne@humaneloudoun.org and let her know how you would like your donation designated.
Sponsoring adoption fees will help increase our adoption rate. This, in turn, will free up our fosters so we can save more animals.
We’re off to a good start with Newk’s Eatery sponsoring three of our homeless animals for the Clear the Shelters event. Please join them and sponsor or co-sponsor an animal today!
Come meet adoptable cats and kittens! Visit our website for a sneak peek of available cats and kittens!
To volunteer and/or bring your foster animals, please click on the following link or copy the link into a new browser window:
The volunteer sign up for events is for current volunteers who have attended our Volunteer Orientation and signed a Volunteer Agreement. Contact HELPANIMALS@HUMANELOUDOUN.ORG for more information.
Hundreds of shelters across the country are teaming up with NBC Owned Television Stations and Telemundo for Clear the Shelters, a nationwide pet adoption drive on Saturday, August 17 that helps find loving homes for animals in need.
The Humane Society of Loudoun County is participating in the Clear the Shelters pet adoption event so come to Petsmart and meet cats and dogs available for adoption.
To sign up to volunteer and/or bring your foster, click on the following link or copy the link into a new browser window: