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Try volunteering. You will meet new people, have fun helping animals, and make a difference in the community. Call or stop by and meet the friendly animals and staff.
How Intermountain Humane Society Works
Intermountain Humane Society is volunteer driven, but the fuel is donations. Each animal that IMHS accepts into our foster care costs real dollars as well as the efforts of volunteers and veterinarians. Adoption fees of $65-$85 for dogs and $45 to $65 for cats only serve to make sure the individual who is adopting the pet has a serious commitment to the pet. Our costs include:
 | Health Examinations, including medications for minor problems and deworming |
| Vaccinations |
| Sterilization for all sexually intact animals |
| Dental care in some cases |
| Treatment of any illness while under our care |
| Treatment of major illness or injury in stray or unwanted pets |
| Shelter home costs (including kennels/pens, dog houses, food and litter costs) |
| Advertising stray pets |
| Microchip identification and registration for each dog and cat adopted to a new home. |
Our costs vary considerably for each individual pet in our care, but generally range from $100 to $300 or more for each animal. In addition, we are expecting well over 400 animals to pass through our hands this year, making our financial burdens considerable indeed. In addition to veterinary costs, we have the costs of maintaining foster homes, our display center/office rent & upkeep, spay-neuter programs, web fees and other expenses. Our funding comes exclusively from the public and not from any government agency. In fact, we actually subsidize Park County by paying for veterinary care and providing adoptions services for many of their impounded animals..
Why You Should Help IMHS
IMHS receives no governmental funding whatsoever. We rely solely on the public for our existence. Examples of what your money can do with IMHS include:
| $1000 will equip a foster home with a 8x16 foot portable dog kennel &dog house and feed all the dogs using this kennel for one year. |
| $1000 will pay for IMHS's rent and utilities for one month at our business office and adoption center. |
| $300 will equip a foster home for housing a litter of kittens or two cats and provide food and litter for that foster home for one year. |
| $250 will cover the additional expenses of an older dog that needs blood tests to assess the dog's health, dental work on neglected teeth and spaying or neutering prior to adoption. |
| $150 will cover the additional expenses of older cats that need blood tests, dental work and sterilization prior to adoption. |
| $100 will cover the cost of testing, spaying and vaccinating a feral (wild) cat prior to re-releasing in back into its home (typically a barn or kindly caregiver's property). Note: We only catch and release feral cats if someone will commit to caring for them.) |
| $50 will cover the expenses not provided for in adoption fees for healthy pets that need examinations, deworming, vaccinations and sterilization prior to adoption. |
| $25 provides membership in IMHS for an individual and $40 provides membership for two members of the family. Every animal has value and every donation counts. Please print out the following form or simple send a check to IMHS, P.O. Box 1250, Conifer, CO 80433. |
If you prefer, you can download the IMHS Fact Sheet and Membership/Donation form as an Adobe Acrobat File (you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, downloadable free from the Adobe Corporation by clicking here).
Make a contribution to Intermountain Humane Society! To donate you can:
| Print the form below, fill it out, and mail it to us along with your contribution. |
| Donate online through the Network for Good. To get started, click here! |
| Donate your car, truck, boat, RV, ATV, etc to us by using Car helping Charities. For more information about Cars helping Charities, click here! |
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First Name:_____________________ M.I.____ Last Name:______________________ Address:______________________________________________________________ Town:____________ State:__________ Zip:____________ Home Phone:____________________ Spouse/Other:__________________________ I would like to donate to the animals, enclosed is my check for :____________________ I am interested in volunteering for IMHS, please have someone call me at the following time and number! ___________________________________________________________________ Please have someone call me concerning non-cash donations, planned giving, or estate bequests. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Please mail to Intermountain Humane Society, P.O. Box 1250, Conifer, CO 80433 |
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Last Update: 11/29/2004