Humane Animal Treatment Society Fund

The Humane Animal Treatment Society (HATS) Fund was established to support the animal welfare services they provide in our community, both for homeless pets and for community members and their beloved companion animals. This endowment fund will support their mission to empower the community to support the compassionate treatment of all animals.

In 1999, HATS was founded by a small group of dedicated, animal-loving volunteers that came together with a common goal: to save the lives of countless homeless animals in Isabella County. Over the course of the next two decades, that small group would transform into a powerful team of board members, staff members, volunteers, donors, foster homes and supporters that worked tirelessly to combat companion animal overpopulation, promote animal adoption, and provide quality care and safe housing for the homeless pets at the Isabella County Animal Shelter.

With a renovated shelter and a new veterinary clinic, HATS is able to safely care for hundreds of homeless pets each year, along with providing thousands of low-cost sterilization surgeries for community members. Because of generous community support, HATS has increased adoptions and drastically reduced euthanasia reaching “no-kill” status, and they continue to educate the public on animal welfare issues and offer support services to community pet-owners.

As HATS heads full force into a brighter future for companion animals, it sets its sights on further reducing shelter intakes, increasing long-lasting adoptions, providing low-cost medical services to community pet owners, helping other shelters in greater need, and combating the massive population of unowned community cats in order to increase the quality of human and feline life.

The support of this fund will help tremendously in accomplishing future goals for compassionate animal care in the community by helping save lives, reducing unnecessary suffering and increasing the quality of life of humans and animals alike!