History. Buffalo Humane began as a group of area citizens protesting the announced end of adoptions at the City of Buffalo Animal Shelter, part of the city's cost-cutting moves to close its serious budget gap. Effectively, the shelter would have become all-kill, allowing only 3 days for animals to be claimed or they would be destroyed. The original Save-Our-Shelter group mobilized quickly and successfully stopped the cuts for the 2004-2005 fiscal year, with the hope that the 1-year reprieve would allow some kind of safety net to be put in place before elimination of the adoption program in July 2005.
Fortunately, the anticipated 1-year reprieve for the city shelter appeared to become a perma...
1. Submit Application
2. Interview
3. Meet the Pet
Potential adopters must complete an adoption application and in some cases we may require a home visit (mostly dogs). For current adoption fee info and promotions, we recommend going to our websi...