Humane Society of Harrisburg Area

One of the worst humane societies in the area from the top down. Requires applications that take a long time to process, and often when they do the animal you liked it gone.

Their hours are atrocious and do not sync up with the ones google provides.

If you're looking for a new pet and want to walk in, I would call first to make sure they are open.

Staff also extremely rude, quick to hang up as well.

There are a LOT of good shelters, and rescues out there. Unfortunately this place is not anymore. So many bad experiences.

Grateful to HSHA for all my furry family members! I'm also a proud volunteer of many years.

This a great place to find your next furry family member. The staff and volunteers care for and about the animals and want the best for both animals and adopters. Adopt, don't shop!

The staff is great and dedicated to the mission of the shelter. The facility is modern and clean, and the dogs have indoor and outdoor access unlike a lot of local shelters in the area. They have a strong and dedicated volunteer program, and staff and volunteers alike greet you and make you feel comfortable walking through the shelter. The animal residents are well cared for, and adoption is a straight-forward and easy process. Be weary of the one-star reviews, they appear to have a political agenda and are against the mission of the shelter.

My family is dealing with an outside semi feral cat; not an indoor regular pet.
We're trying to care for her basic wellbeing.
With difficulty we were able to get her there for initial appointment.
Vaccinations were given and a diagnosis of ringworm with medication.
However no additional support unless we asked or pushed for it.
We were also expected to scruff the cat, in order to administer the med; which turned out to be unrealistic and perhaps not even optimal.
Nothing was ever mentioned about tick or flea care.
All this for around a hundred bucks in estimate.

For second, follow up appointment, I was alone in trying to get the cat into the carrier (have personal medical issues affecting reflexes). I struggled for a half an hour, including enticing her with her favourite treats. To no avail.
I then, still out next to the car, contacted Becky Morgan; quickly emailing her about my struggles.
Only to receive an email from another staff, that inorder to make another appointment, I need to pay upfront first, for missing the appointment.

I don't consider this approach humane at all.

I filled out application for adoption and it was approved.I met the dog and the next step was a meet and greet with my current dog. I was told the team would reach out when they had an apt for the meet and greet. Days went by and i called and emailed daily for this to take place. I then get a call from the shelter that they informed me that they would not allow me to adopt this dog due to there veterinary rescource center throwing shade on me due to poor care I called them out on and left reviews to warn others of my horrible experience. This shelter is beyond poor in many levels. I have high standards for veterinary care for my animals and the hbg humane society did not provide quality care and this is just an extension of the way they treat people and there pets like 'garbage'.They denied a dog from getting a great home and life because I no longer go there for care for my animals. This is to inform the public of there way of treating the public and there pets.

Would not hold a cat for me for a few days while I worked on getting shot records for proof my others cats were vaccinated. I even offered to pay 3 times the cost of normal adoption fee. This was a few years ago but never went there again. Plenty of other shelters. Place was ran by a Gestapo forget her name. They could care less about placing animals and only hung up on their silly policies. They had nothing to lose.

You can adopt a dog, cat, rabbit, guinea pig, bird, whatever else they currently have available. They have animals of all ages, sizes and types, who would love to have a home. Many are just unable to be cared for by their current owners. There is usually an application and a fee for adopting an animal. Animals from juvenile to mature. They also have a foster-home system where you can basically rent an animal and give it shelter when the Humane Society is overcrowded.

They are always in need of dry dog and cat food, donations and volunteers to help out at any time. We have dropped newspapers off there as well. I always enjoyed going there and volunteering to walk some of the dogs around the building, that was so fun.

We rescued a kitten on a construction site and we brought it here just ask if you questions before taking it home with us the staff was very helpful and considerate they gave us a lot of good advice and gave us a list of services that we could use we are really grateful for their help


This review was written with talk to text so I apologize for any bad grammar

Please don't buy your pets from breeders until this place is empty.

Nice facility, caring staff.