The Spay/Neuter & Wellness Clinic at 2570-B Camino Entrada (between Outback and Kohl's) offers low-cost, high quality spay/neuter and vacination programs to help ensure fewer unwanted puppies and kittens, and to help the overall health of the animals. Our Limited Veterinary Care program provides affordable vet services to income-qualified families. To schedule an appointment, please call 505-474-6422. For more information click here. 

Do your part and spay or neuter your pet. For more information click here.

Hours of Operation | Staff | Board of Directors | A Brief History

The mission of the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society is to reduce animal suffering by curbing overpopulation, teaching compassion, and supporting healthy relationships between people and animals.

The Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society (SFAS&HS) is the largest animal shelter and care facility in northern New Mexico. We serve more than 10,000 lost, stray, abandoned or injured animals each year. As a private, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization, we receive nearly all of our funding through private donors in our community and beyond. SFAS&HS contracts with the city and county of Santa Fe to care for homeless and stray animals, as well as those brought through our front doors.

We work to reunite people with their lost animal companions, and re-home those animals that have gone unclaimed into new homes through our adoption program. Low- and no-cost spay/neuter programs address the overpopulation problems that our community faces. Humane education programs in our local schools teach children to respect and care for all living creatures. Partnered with our community, we work for change in the lives of our companion animals and to end the suffering of all animals.

Please note: Animals for adoption or lost animals may only be visited during
Kennel hours of operation.

Adoption Desk:

9:00 am to 5:00 pm - seven days a week

Adoption Kennel hours (for viewing):

11:00 am to 5:00 pm - seven days a week

Receiving Desk:

9:00 am to 5:00 pm daily

Receiving Kennel hours (for viewing):

11:00 am to 5:00 pm daily

The staff of the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society bring years of collective experience in animal welfare and related fields to the Shelter. For more information about the shelter, please contact the appropriate person below.

The Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society is governed by a Board of Directors, each of whom brings a deep committment to the animals and people of our community.

Roddey Burdine, President

Jan Ballew, Vice President

Trey Jordan, Vice President

Leta Worthington, Secretary

Laura Parker, Treasurer

Allene Lapides, Director

John Catron, Director

Bill Johnson, Director

Mary Kehoe, Director

Bill Moffett, Director

Carl Trujillo, Director

Christopher Willett, Director

On July 18, 2005, the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society left its home of 66 years—the only home the organization had ever known—and moved to our new, two-building, 100-acre campus. We left a structure that had helped us serve thousands upon thousands of animals for the better part of seven decades. And while that home held so much history and love, the needs of our community meant we needed more. Thanks to a partnership with the City of Santa Fe and the Bureau of Land management, we moved to a parcel of land with hiking trails, room to walk dogs, and amazing sunsets. After a multi-year fundraising drive, the first phase was completed: two beautiful new buildings in which we can provide a higher level of care to the animals in our community.

The Lapides Adoption Center serves healthy, adoptable animals. Every detail of the new shelter is designed for the comfort and health of the animals. From the tiled banco in each dog kennel to the spacious, cozy, cat colony rooms; from the radiant floor heating for our four-footed visitors to rooms where potential adopters can visit with an animal in an area designed to simulate a home environment.

The second building, the Robin Sommers Animal Receiving & Care Center, allows us much more room to house stray and abandoned animals as we care for them during their stay with us. High-tech ventilation systems will allow us to better control the spread of contagious diseases and to safely treat the animals in our care much more effectively.

We welcome you to visit the new haven we are providing to the animals of our community. Two five-acre dog parks are available so that the Shelter will not just be a place to adopt an animal or find a missing one, but one to visit over and over again. We have built this shelter for you, our community, to use as a resource and a place to find joy with the animals.

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... took in 5,573 animals in need.

... found new homes for 2,923 animals.

... spayed or neutered 7,494 animals.

... returned 1,130 lost animals to their homes.

... gave 637 animals a second chance with our Shelter partners.

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