Maui Humane Society – Facebook Community Guidelines
Welcome to the official Maui Humane Society page! Our mission is to protect and save animal lives, support pets and their families, and foster a compassionate community across Maui. We welcome comments, questions, and healthy discussions. To ensure this remains a safe, respectful, and supportive space for everyone—including our community members, volunteers, and staff—we ask all visitors to adhere to the following standards. Be Respectful & Kind
Treat fellow community members, staff, volunteers, and partners with courtesy and respect. Healthy debate is welcome, but personal attacks, harassment, insult-based arguments, and hate speech will not be tolerated.
2. No Bullying, Hate Speech, or Harassment
We have a zero-tolerance policy for discrimination, hate speech, threats, or harassment based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or background.
3. Keep It Relevant
Please keep comments on-topic to the post. Off-topic rants, political debates, or spam distract from our primary goal of saving animals and sharing critical community resources.
4. Protect Privacy
Do not post private personal information (doxxing), such as full home addresses, private phone numbers, or private full names of individuals involved in rescue, surrenders, or ongoing investigations.
5. No Commercial Promotion or Spam
Unsolicited business advertisements, referral links, self-promotion, or repetitive spam comments are prohibited.
6. Animal Welfare Reporting
Facebook is not monitored 24/7 for emergency reporting. To report an animal in immediate danger, cruelty, neglect, or a stray animal situation, please call Humane Enforcement directly at (808) 877-3680 ext. 222 rather than commenting on Facebook. Moderation & Policy Enforcement
To maintain a positive environment focused on the animals, the Maui Humane Society reserves the right to moderate content. Deletion of Content: Posts or comments containing vulgar language, threats, personal attacks, misinformation, spam, or violations of any rule above will be deleted without prior notice. Blocking & Banning: Users who repeatedly violate these rules, exhibit abusive behavior, or post severe threats will be blocked from the page and reported to Facebook. Thank you for helping us keep this page a constructive, compassionate space for Maui's pets and people! 🐾Maui Humane Society was first organized in 1953, and incorporated in 1962. We have been concerned with animal welfare since our inception, and operated a volunteer-run shelter until 1987. At that time we received a Maui County contract to not only handle all field operations for animal management in the community, but also partially fund an animal shelter and adoption center. We are an independent non-profit organization. We seek private donations and grant funding to provide the monies necessary to cover the remaining programs and services our community needs – approximately 60% of our overall operation costs. We are Maui County’s only open admission shelter, handle all animal management, are the only organization offering humane education programs, and have the largest spay-neuter assistance program in the county. Our humane enforcement officers work with and educate pet owners in violation of county codes instead of merely writing citations. We work to help prepare families for safety in times of disaster and have an amazing adoptions/reunions program. Our 4EverPets program provides free food and supplies to those in need. We are committed to providing exemplary service to our community and encourage the creation and growth of programs, services and partnerships that will enable us to better carry out our mission. We are proud of the services and programs we provide to Maui County every day and are diligently working to reduce the number of neglected and unwanted animals through education, outreach, and spay-neuter programs, thereby increasing the number of happy forever homes in our community.
