Oregon Humane Society

Community veterinary services - during the year ended december 31, 2024, ohs had 17,989 patient visits to the community veterinary hospital (cvh) including 3,587 spay and neuter surgeries, 312 dental procedures and 139 other urgent surgeries. In addition, the cvh distributed $555,717 in subsidized care. Salem campus - community veterinary services: ohs salem campus provides medical services primarily for shelter animals, plus spay & neuter for community cat and owned pets, in 2024, ohs salem provided 5,471 surgeries, including 1,148 spay/neuter surgeries to community cats and 1,469 spay/neuter surgeries to privately owned pets.

Community and education services - educating the community and highlighting animals and programs are crucial to helping ohs achieve its mission of finding a home for animals in need. In addition to a vibrant education department, ohs's communications and marketing department strives to promote critical and helpful information to the community through the media, special events, and real-time photos of animals available for adoption on ohs's website.in 2024: visitors to the portland campus totaled 66,070 (on average, 186 people visited the ohs portland campus each day) visitors to the salem campus totaled 47,602. Adoptions at the portland campus averaged 24.39 per day adoptions at the salem campus averaged 9.15 per day ohs issued 76 press releases ohs had 2,302 television, radio and web news stories ohs's magazine reached 31,000 readers each quarter ohs's website averaged 4,252 daily visitors and total new visitors to the site were approximately 1,556,365 for the year the average time spent on ohs's website was 1:58.humane education: sometimes the most significant lessons are learned through compassion, empathy, and first-hand experience. Ohs strives to reach the hearts and minds of children, teens, and adults ohs has the opportunity to meet. Humane education reached 84,781 people, including 17,127 children and 67,654 adults. Humane education made 317 school visits in portland and salem impacting 7,574 youth and 371 adults. 13 summer camp sessions were attended by 356 total campers humane education hosted nine career days, 59 tours and field trips, and seven after school clubs.

Humane law enforcement and rescue - ohs has three humane special agents who are commissioned by the superintendent of oregon state police to enforce oregon's tough animal cruelty laws statewide. Ohs has officers in the community handling a variety of animal welfare complaints. In 2024, there were 4,387 calls and e-mail messages to ohs's cruelty complaint line and website. Humane special agents traveled across oregon to investigate 478 new cases of animal cruelty leading to 560 animals being seized or removed from harm's way and 13 criminal cases. The humane law enforcement department also assisted outside agencies 210 times and provided 182 veterinary forensic services for cases investigated by ohs and other law enforcement agencies. In total, 1,015 animals were helped by ohs's humane law enforcement department in 2024. Ohs's goal is to save lives and enhance the relationship between people and their pets, while ensuring that the roughly two million pets in the region are protected from abuse or neglect. Rescue: ohs' technical animal rescue (ohstar) members with animal first-aid and rescue training are available to respond to animal rescue situations that require critical technical skills. Ohs staff and volunteers deployed 36 times to aid in emergency situations. The ohstar team enriches ohs's mission through saving lives and enhancing the relationship between people and their pets.

Behavior consultation and training - ohs's experienced behavior consultation and training team offers a variety of dog, puppy, cat and kitten trainings services and are summarized as follows: provided 512 private consultations in portland and 69 in salem. Public training classes offered numbered 303 in portland and 128 in salem. 90 dogs and 103 cats were helped through the behavior modification program 80 dogs and 102 cats were adopted through the behavior modification program a volume of 1,230 phone calls and emails were handled by the behavior help line, a free service provided to the community by ohs

Community support - ohs draws support from oregon's communities and beyond, including donors from all of oregon's counties and nearly every city and town. During 2024, 30,305 individuals, businesses, and foundations made donations to support ohs's work. Of these, 1,331 donors were recognized as members of the president's circle, honoring their annual commitment of $1,000 or more.donors are offered a broad array of giving options, including: paws monthly gift program, 5,802 generous donors who participate with a recurring donation. The autos-for-animals vehicle donation program, which received 497 cars, trucks, rv's, and motorcycles. Gifts from estates and trusts, which comprise a significant portion of ohs's operating income. Ohs encourages supporters to remember the organization in their estate plans. During the year, 99 new probate estates and matured trusts were opened. Additionally, 149 households and 46 organizations shared that they had included ohs in their estate plan. Charitable gift annuities are offered to ohs's supporters with one being issued in 2024. Pet owners can ensure the welfare of animals that might outlive them by participating in the friends forever estate-planning-for-pets program. During the year, 25 households enrolled in friends forever from across the northwest. Nineteen pets were received under the auspices of the program. Salem thrift store: ohs closed the thrift store in salem on dec. 31, 2024