Leon County Humane Society

06/16/2025

We DESPERATELY need FOSTERS!

We have Valor - you know him, you love all three of his legs and his big ol' head! He hasn't been getting along well with the resident dog in his foster home. He still loves other dogs, it just seems like a personality clash. He's still a puppy at heart and is learning polite doggy behavior. A home with a friendly female dog or no dogs at all would probably be the best fit!

We have Keisha! An already adoptable ready-to-go lab who is high energy and very smart. She loves people. Keisha is hoping to have a large, fenced yard and prefers being the only dog to give her new family all the focus they deserve, but she gets along with other dogs and walks well on a leash.

Two more puppies! Joe and Flash are 5-month-old puppies great with dogs and kids! Crate trained and they sleep through the night. We know they’ll be adopted In a flash!

Last but certainly not least is Maverick, who was adopted as a puppy and recently returned (well, there's more to this story, but we'll share later - the important part is he needs a foster.) Maverick is a really good boy and deserves to relax in a foster home! He's housetrained, and has been nothing less than an angel.

Fosters earn 4 volunteer hours a day (a great family summer activity!) and are given ALL necessary supplies - everything from food to toys, a kennel, bowls, EVERYTHING - we're your one stop shop for all your fostering needs. We also cover all of their vet care and provide support for our fosters.

We've got your back through this journey!

There's truly nothing more rewarding than helping an animal find their forever homes. We know we've made lifelong connections and friendships as fosters and it's incredibly heartwarming to see an animal you love find their perfect home.

Submit a foster application today at www.leoncountyhumane.org/foster/foster-application

Already completed a foster app? Email Amy, our Dog Coordinator, at [email protected] to let her know you're ready to open your home and heart!

06/16/2025

There's been some "sit and shake" ups in our leaderboard!

🐶 Current Top 13 Standings 🐱 (as of June 16, 2025):

1. Linus "The Purr Machine" Zirps - 4,604 Votes

2. Zoey - 740 Votes

3. Charlie - 725 Votes

4. Franklin - 721 Votes

5. Tate B Cumbercat - 713 Votes

6. Goose - 560 Votes

7. Smudge - 523 Votes

8. Rodney - 510 Votes

9. Pirate - 451 Votes

10. Kango - 415 Votes

11. Pixie - 400 Votes

12. Shoto - 383 Votes

13. Stella - 340 Votes

These contenders are leading the pack, and if we were to stop right now - they'd be our calendar models. BUT - the race is still open, with several other pets not far behind. Remember, voting continues until June 30, 2025, at 9:00 PM

🎉 Community Events

To celebrate the contest's progress, we're having our Calendar Contest Countdown Party on June 30 at Proof Brewing Company This event will coincide with the final hours of voting, offering a fun and social atmosphere for supporters to watch the leaderboard and cheer on their favorite pets. We're also celebrating Smudge's Sweet Sixteen on the 27th, and our Smudge is currently in 7th place!

🐾 How You Can Participate

Vote: Each vote is a $1 donation. Cast multiple votes and allocate them however you wish to support your favorite pet.

Share: Encourage friends and family to vote by sharing your pet's entry page.

Reserve: Secure a guaranteed spot for your pet by reserving a day or sidebar in the calendar for a $15 or $150 donation, respectively. We still have a few sidebars available, and there are plenty of days left to reserve for your special pet!

📅 Important Dates

Voting Deadline: June 30, 2025, at 9:00 PM EDT

Calendar Contest Countdown Party : June 30, 2025, at Proof Brewing Company

Calendar Release with the top 13, photographed by Black & Hue Photography: November 2025

You can pre-order the calendar at https://www.gogophotocontest.com/leoncountyhumanesociety/purchase

Your participation not only gives your pet a chance to shine but also contributes to our cause. Every vote helps LCHS continue our vital work in the community and step up for animals in need. So, rally behind your favorite furry friend and make a difference today!

For more information and to cast your votes, visit the official contest page: www.gogophotocontest.com/leoncountyhumanesociety

06/15/2025

Happy Father’s Day to the human dads and the pet dads!

Is there a fantastic pet dad in your life? Give them a shoutout in the comments!

06/15/2025

⌛️We're halfway through our Paw Prints Calendar Contest

Need some ideas on how to get more people to vote for your pet? Here's a few tips and tricks from past winners on how they were able to cat-apult into the top 13!

💙 Reach out directly and speak from the heart! For many of our entrants, this is a way to immortalize their beloved pets through a photoshoot with Black & Hue Photography and share the love they have for them with the world.

🔄Share their profile frequently on your social media pages! Share new photos and cute details about your pet along with their entry link. Create a tik tok showing one of their adorable quirks! You never know who will be inspired by how adorable they are.

👥 Who are your pet's biggest fans? Maybe their groomer, veterinarian, pet sitter, trainer, etc. would be excited to know your pet is entered! It never hurts to ask and see if they'd be willing to post/share your pet and promote the contest! Paws & Claws Veterinary Hospital has chosen their champion! Camp MoJo's is choosing theirs! @

📖 Is your entered pet an LCHS alumni? Share their story and tell your followers how supporting your pet will help other animals like them find loving homes! Remind your circle that this isn't JUST about your pet, it's about supporting a great cause! TAG US on your posts! We'll share to our story or page!

📔Create flyers! You can use sites like Canva for a free and easy Graphic Press an engaging posterGraphic Pressen we recommend emailing Eric at Graphic Press - [email protected] to have your beaCalendar Contest Countdown Party alendar Contest Countdown Party squad to our Calendar Contest Countdown Party ! You can convince other attendees at the event to join your team, and the more fun you have with it, the easier it is to get others engaged. Hopey Child comes to mind - the 2024 calendar Cover Model - with her owner coming to the Countdown Party with everyone in her party holding a big cut out of her face on sticks. We'll post a link in the comments for easy ordering.

See where your pet is on the leaderboard at www.gogophotocontest.com/leoncountyhumanesociety

06/13/2025

One of our vet partners, Paws & Claws Veterinary Hospital has chosen a client to promote for the Paw Prints Calendar Contest !

It’s looking to be a fierce competition! As we near the midway point, it’s time to start picking which team you’re on and which pets you want to see on the 2026 Calendar!

Hoping we see more of our vet partners and local businesses step into the arena 🏟️ for our entrants - have you checked with your pet’s fan club? Is your groomer, vet, pet sitter, trainer, or neighbor in love with your pet? Ask them if they’re able to support!

Every vote is $1 dollar raised for helping animals in our community and beyond!

Show your support for Leon County Humane Society by voting for Linus Zirps in Paw Prints Calendar Contest Fundraiser

06/12/2025

Foster (or adopter!) needed for Keisha!

Keisha is 10 months old, so still a puppy with puppy energy, but old enough to have manners! She’s housetrained, crate trained, and walks well on a leash. She is very smart and catches on quickly.

Keisha LOVES people and she is desperate for a family to call her own. Keisha is hoping to have a large, fenced yard and prefers being the only dog to give her new family all the focus they deserve!

If you’re interested in adopting, learn more and click “submit an adoption application” on this page: https://www.leoncountyhumane.org/animal/keisha/

If you’re able to foster (don’t forget that fosters have first opportunity to adopt and are given all supplies! It costs nothing to foster, we send you home with everything you need to take care of your foster pet.

Submit a foster application so we can have you onboarded as a foster at www.leoncountyhumane.org/foster/foster-application

Submitted an application previously? No need to submit a new one, email our dog coordinator directly to let her know you’d like to bring Keisha home at [email protected]

06/12/2025

We love when a local business steps up to support an entered pet in our Paw Prints Calendar Contest!

Thank you Earl Bacon Agency for supporting Frankie on his journey to Calendar Contest Fame, and by doing so supporting animals in our community! Go Frankie go!

The Earl Bacon Agency offers experts in all areas of insurance: Homeowners, Automobile, Workers’ Compensation, Life, Health, Professional Liability, Business and Property protection.

Give them a follow to see more of Frankie’s face!

Make sure you’re watching our story for all of our Calendar spotlights 🗓️

✨Which 13 pets are going to be featured on our 2026 Paw Prints Calendar Contest ?

Which cats, dogs, (snakes? Horses? Guinea pigs?) will win a photoshoot with the fabulous Black & Hue Photography, providing timeless portraits of 13 beloved pets to grace the cover and 12 months of our 2026 Paw Prints Calendar 🐾

Voting closes June 30th at 9 p.m.!

The Earl Bacon Agency has once again selected a competitor for the Leon County Humane Society Paw Prints Calendar Contest! We’re not quite to the halfway point of the competition, and handsome Franklin is making a serious run for that top spot. He even visited the office this week to work on his campaign (but we’re afraid he spent most of his time meeting people and getting treats 😉).

Interested in helping us support local pet rescue? You can vote here for Franklin:
https://gogo.photo/580218

It’s just $1 per vote, and all proceeds support the Leon County Humane Society’s good work.

06/11/2025

•••Fosters Needed•••

Oscar- is one of the sweetest boys that you will meet. His foster is having a family emergency therefore Oscar will need a new Foster as soon as possible now Oscar does get along with other dogs. He is house trained. He is crate trained, but we’re not sure about cats. He is about two years old at best guess .

Maxwell-is a one year-old male Shih Tzu super sweet gets along with other dogs not sure about cats , house trained, and crate trained great personality very loving. He will need a foster until his neuter date and until he can find his new forever home.

Lacey- is a female one year-old Shih Tzu super sweet cute little personality gets along with other dogs. She needs a foster until she can find her forever home .

Bailey (4-5 yr spayed English bulldog mix) has a complicated past. She was used for breeding before being dumped at a shelter by the person who’d profited from her puppies. From that shelter, she was transferred to a rescue group and then adopted to an individual 6 months ago. The adopter can no longer keep her and the rescue group is unwilling to take her back.
LCHS was asked to accept her, and upon evaluation, our Dog Coordinator immediately noticed something was off with Bailey’s back legs. Off to the vet she went where it was discovered that Bailey is suffering from dislocation of BOTH hips; a condition that is very painful and not new to poor Bailey.
We hope to help Bailey, but this means we need a foster home willing to see her through the two surgical procedures necessary to relieve her pain and give her a chance at a quality life from her on. This is a MUST before we can say yes to surgery!
If you’re considering fostering Bailey, contact our Dog Coordinator, Amy, at [email protected] and she’ll answer any questions you might have. Don’t assume someone else will step up!
If you can help us with any of these deserving babies, please send me an email to [email protected]



06/11/2025

Our Paw Prints Calendar Contest has so far raised over $15,000 toward our mission to Rescue, Rehabilitate, and Educate 🎉💙

BUT - we're still a long way to go before the contest ends on June 30th at 9:00 p.m., and we still have a long way to go before we reach our goal of $40,000 raised for animals in need!

Our Top 13 Pets will win a photoshoot with Black & Hue Photography, and photos from that shoot will be used for the cover and 12 months in our 2026 Paw Prints Calendar, with the following 12 runners up featured in a sidebar on each month.

There's still PLENTY of time for your pet to fetch themselves a spot among the top 13! 🥎 Voting closes at 9:00 p.m. on June 30th, so keep sharing, posting, and boasting about your pet to earn them votes!

Each vote is $1, and there are NO bonus vote opportunities this year, $1 = 1 vote all month long.

So far our Top 13 has 3 cats and 10 dogs, but within the contest we also have a horse, snake, and guinea pig! We have so many beautiful pets entered, we encourage you to go through and read each entry! You'll meet lots of beloved pets, and many of them are LCHS alumni who you may even recognize! It's not too late to enter, you still have 2 and a half weeks to rally!

If you're not the competitive type, you can also reserve a calendar day to feature your pet, or purchase a sidebar for them. You can even pre-order your 2026 calendar!

Of course, we can't end this post without a shameless plug for Smudge - currently 6th place. Smudge's Sweet Sixteen is this month, and to celebrate this special birthday we entered her in the contest this year! In lieu of gifts and flowers, she's requested votes/donations to help save future animals.

We know, she's a saint. 😼

06/08/2025

This sweet guy is a great reminder of how important your continued support is.

Last Thursday, our Dog Coordinator was having a rough day in the middle of a rough week in the middle of a ROUGH puppy/kitten season, and she got a call from a local vet.

An owned puppy had a severe break in his leg and his owners had opted to surrender him. They couldn’t afford treatment. The surgery would have been expensive even if it wasn’t a complicated break, but then the clinic he was at determined he needed a skilled surgeon to place a pin, and wanted to transfer his care to Capital Veterinary Specialists.

His leg was fixable and he had a good prognosis, but they needed someone willing to commit to paying for the surgery and taking him into their care before they could get him treatment, so they called our Dog Coordinator, Amy.

Being asked to take in another dog when our program is full, we’ve seen a few returns recently, and there are requests every day about surrendering dogs - it can be overwhelming.

For a lot of people it might have been the straw that broke the camel’s back, but for our Dog Coordinator it was just a moment she recognized as an opportunity for us to help an animal who needed us.

Our ability to say yes to animals in need depends on support from community members like you. We need fosters so we have a place for these animals to recover, rest, and wait for their forever homes, but we also need financial support to know that we can confidently afford their care and take on the cases we know won’t be easy - the cases shelters can’t take on - the cases who need rescue. 🛟

Your continued support allows us to take these moments in stride - it allows us to say “don’t worry, we can help.” It provides hope when other options are exhausted.

You help us confidently race to the aid of animals who may need critical care, assist those in impossible situations, transfer in animals at risk of euthanasia, and save approximately 1,000 animals every year who otherwise would have nowhere to go.

He got the surgery he needed. He’s going to find a wonderful home! 🏠 You can help us make sure this outcome happens for future animals by donating through this post or at www.leoncountyhumane.org/donate

You can also participate in our largest annual fundraiser, the Paw Prints Calendar Contest 🐾 as a way to have a little extra fun with your support!

If you can’t donate, consider signing up to foster so we can contact you when we have a cat or dog who we urgently need to place or rescue: www.leoncountyhumane.org/get-involved/foster

Fosters get 4 volunteer hours a day and it costs nothing to foster! We provide all supplies and cover all vet costs - we just ask that you open your home and heart.

We look forward to updating you on this sweet pups’ recovery and journey, and you can see our currently adoptable animals on our website any time at www.leoncountyhumane.org/adopt/adoptable-pets