Education

Humane Education Programs

Our Education Program is committed to providing elementary and middle schools with presentations that teach respect, responsibility, and compassion for all life. With a focus on topics including pet care/safety and pet overpopulation, the lesson plans are designed to match the developmental abilities of each audience while utilizing a variety of academic skills including: art, critical thinking, listening/observation, math, science, and writing skills.

To learn more please click here to view our Humane Education Brochure.
If you have any questions or would like to schedule a classroom presentation, please send an email to HumaneSociety@AdoptPetsNow.com.

Kidz Programs, Activities, and More…

Birthday Pawties!!!

Come celebrate your birthday with our party animals! HSSCG Birthday Parties offer two hours of fun that includes a variety of animal-themed games, crafts, and activities. Trust us- you’ll have a tail waggin’ good time.

Summer Camp

HSSCG is planning an animal-themed summer day camp. Kids of all ages will love spending time with our shelter animals, playing games, participating in animal-related educational activities, assisting in service projects to benefit our pet friends, and more!

Ideas for Children to Humanely Help Homeless Animals

1. Flyer creation
Attaching activist’s messages on suckers that banks give away is a creative way to create a flyer for an animal in need of a forever home. Print cards that say, "lick pet overpopulation" and list spay/neuter clinics in your community with valid points supporting spay/neuter.

2. Celebrate animals for your birthday
This year, ask for a donation to conservation in lieu of gifts! Visit HSSCG to learn how to donate. Give the gift of a membership, or symbolically adopt an animal to help preserve nature’s beauty.

3. Have a lemonade stand (with permission, of course)
Earn money for your favorite animal cause while spending a day in the sun as a family. Lemonade is low-cost refreshment that often attracts friends and neighbors. Let them quench their thirst while making a donation to a good cause! Don't forget to share info about the organization so that you can spread awareness to everyone you know and meet!

4. Volunteer at a shelter
Volunteering at a shelter can be a great way to spend time together as a family! As a family you could volunteer to groom, walk, and play with pets in need of forever families. Taking photos of available pets for the adoption boards, etc. is definitely helpful as well!

5. Walk-a-thons, Pet Parades, Bake Sales, Blessing of The Animals
These activities can be simply organized and the money raised could be used for shelter programs such as low-cost spay/neuter.

6. Promote Spay Neuter!
Consider helping a financially needy family get their pet fixed. Hundreds of dogs and cats could be altered to prevent overpopulation. The birth and death of thousands of unwanted pets prevented through spay/neuter.

7. Spay/neuter news
One way to help with spay/neuter in your community is to spread the news about its importance. You and your children can collect information about the benefits of spay/neuter along with information about your local low-cost spay/neuter clinic. The children can make up flyers promoting spay/neuter (including information about the spay/neuter clinic). Have children pass out the flyers as they survey their peers, extended family members, relatives or neighbors to find out how many of them have pets and how many are altered.

8. Dog treat bake-off
As you tour the facility, find out if the shelter dogs are on a strict diet and/or if the shelter would allow their dogs to have treats. A fun, easy way to help would be for you and your family or classmates to bake dog treats. Most pet stores sell a pre-made mix you can bake at home. Giving the dogs yummy treats can be more than a fun family outing. If shelter staff will work with you, you can actually help the shelter dogs get homes faster by using your treats to teach the dogs to sit (an impressive doggy attribute for a potential adopter). In addition, you can suggest to the shelter that your visit could be a good publicity opportunity ("8-year-old does good deed for dogs") that could draw attention to the shelter's abandoned animals awaiting new homes.

9. Fun fundraisers
We want to help but the emotional charge of getting involved with a specific animal is too hard - what can we do? All shelters need help fund raising. You can support the shelter by organizing a mini fundraiser. A bake sale/garage sale can be fun and raise money and awareness simultaneously. You can have your spay/neuter info flyer and Sammy's poster on hand. Likewise, a car wash or dog wash (on a sunny day) could raise money to support the shelter.

9. Wishlist drive
Call for our wishlist or download it off our website (http://www.adoptpetsnow.com/help/wish_list.html) and collect a variety of items.

10. Make an animal Adoption Board for your school or local places (like coffee shops)
Print adoptable animals off of our website at http://www.adoptpetsnow.com/adoption/available.html and make a poster board to display at your school advertising dogs and cats in need of homes. (Try to save paper by printing on both sides of the paper!)

11. Help a homeless pet find a home!
Go on our website (http://www.adoptpetsnow.com/adoption/available.html) and choose a pet that is up for adoption. Why not choose a pet that may have a harder time finding a home, like one that is older or has all-black fur? Design a colorful, eye-catching flyer “advertising” the pet for adoption. Include important information about the pet, including where the people can call for information. Make lots of copies of your flyer and pass them out in your neighborhood, at the store, post one at your local pet supply store – get creative! You may help a homeless pet find a home!

12. Lead by example! Set a good example by taking good care and spaying/neutering YOUR pets!