Nearly 300 people gathered at Trentadue Winery in Geyserville for a purr-fectly festive evening celebrating The Sonoma Humane Society's 80th year of life-saving work and raising over $165,000 to help the homeless animals we care for. Many thanks to all who (continued...click here)

AT THE GALA, THE ANIMALS WERE THE REAL STORY.   

At the Wags, Whiskers and Wine Gala, at the center of each table was a card that told the story of one of our animals. The animals were the real buzz of the evening with so many stories to tell. We'd like to share some of them with you.  

MEET SOME OF OUR STARS 

SUGAR. 

Sharpador   

(Lab & SharPei Mix)

Spayed Female

9-years-old.

Sugar was transferred to the Sonoma Humane Society,
(click to read more) 

BARLEY.  

Domestic Shorthair

Neutered Male.

1-1/2 yrs. old. 

Barley was transferred
to us from a shelter in Pasadena, one of
over 200 cats found living in deplorable conditions,
in a storage locker
(click to read more) 

New Fospice Program Saves Lives of Elderly Animals.

FOSPICE CARE. Part Foster. Part Hospice. Providing

Tiger, 17, a candidate for fospice

end of life care for our companion animals. The Fospice Program was designed for our shelter animals diagnosed with a life-limiting, non-contagious illness (click here to read more about fospice)

Hot Happenings Now! 

Brent Farris of KZST presents a big check to Kiska Icard for the Sonoma Humane Society.

The Great Pet Pinup Photo Contest:
Our Animals were the Big Winners!

KZST and the Sonoma Humane Society put the Fun in online fundraising with the Great Pet Pinup Photo Contest that ran on the KZST website through the month of June. Winners will appear in the Sonoma Humane Society's Pet Pinup Calendar for 2012.
Special thanks to KZST for their support of this successful fundraiser.

Coming Soon 

Alvarado St. Bakery
presents

The Santa Rosa Marathon and Half Marathon 5K Charity Run August 28, 2011

A "Must Do"(Examiner.com) 

The Sonoma Humane Society is one of the "official charities" that will be a beneficiary of proceeds from the Race.  To volunteer, email Alice Bunting, our volunteer coordinator, or register online at: thesantarosamarathon.com.   

The Sonoma Humane Society is locally founded, and locally funded. Now you can go local and add donations while finding lots of local savings with Save Big Do Good. click here to try it!  

Around the Humane Society...

Do You Blog About Your Pets?

We like sharing our shelter stories and adoption truimphs on our Facebook page. If you adopted your pooch or kitty from us (okay, even if you didn't), we'd love sharing your news and albums with our other FB Friends. Come on over to our Facebook (SonomaHumane) page. Keep in touch and "Like" the Sonoma Humane Society.

Something to Tweet about? Keep us posted on Twitter @SonomaHumane!