Beginning October 1, Santa Barbara Humane is offering six months of FREE spay and neuter surgeries for cats and dogs!

Free surgeries will be available at our Santa Maria Veterinary Clinic and through our Mobile Veterinary Unit. An appointment is required, but you don’t have to wait until October to get on the schedule. Appointments can be booked now for surgeries beginning October 1.

Spaying and neutering can help protect pets from certain cancers and infections, prevent unplanned litters, and reduce the number of animals entering local shelters. By offering these surgeries at no cost for six months, we’re making this important veterinary care easier to access for local pet families.

Please note that this free spay and neuter initiative is available exclusively to North County residents.

Ready to book? Visit sbhumane.org/clinic (or sbhumane.org/mobile for our mobile unit) to schedule your pet’s appointment.

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POV: You’re spending a day with Winnie, and she has made an itinerary.

8:00 AM: Wake up. HUGE day ahead.
8:03 AM: Breakfast. Huge day briefly postponed for breakfast.
8:17 AM: Go outside. Smell 46 things. One of them twice.
9:04 AM: Training session. Sit. Get treat. Sit again just in case the treat machine is still operational.
10:26 AM: Find toy. Incredible. Best thing that has ever happened.
10:29 AM: Find different toy. Forget previous statement.
12:15 PM: Accompany human into another room. Unclear why we are going there. Doesn’t matter. WE RIDE.
2:40 PM: Puzzle toy. Solve puzzle primarily through determination and some light violence.
4:03 PM: Walk. New smells have dropped.
6:12 PM: Dinner. Huge day once again postponed for dinner.
8:37 PM: Reflect on accomplishments. Tomorrow we go bigger.

Winnie is a young Dutch Shepherd mix at our Santa Barbara Campus, and she approaches life like someone who just found out there are activities. She’s playful, curious, energetic, and ready for a person who wants to keep that busy brain and body engaged with walks, playtime, enrichment, and plenty of opportunities to learn.

She’s still working on important skills like potty training, crate training, socialization, and basic manners, and consistency, patience, and positive reinforcement will help her continue becoming the excellent grown-up dog she is clearly penciling into the five-year plan. Our puppy training classes can help you tackle that agenda together, too.

Tomorrow’s schedule currently just says MORE STUFF, so there is still plenty of room to add you.

We are open for adoptions from 12 to 4:30 PM every day except Wednesdays.

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The first day of fall has arrived, which means it is officially time to put on a sweater despite it being 76 degrees, purchase a decorative gourd with no practical purpose, rewatch Gilmore Girls, and develop a sudden emotional attachment to beverages containing cinnamon. Natasha has been preparing for this moment her entire life.

Just LOOK at her. This three-year-old calico at our Santa Maria Campus came preinstalled with the complete 2012 Fall Girl color palette. Pumpkin orange? Check. Cream knit sweater? Check. Black leggings? Check. She is basically an infinity scarf with whiskers. Somewhere, a pair of riding boots just appeared beside a pile of crunchy leaves. Mumford & Sons has begun playing faintly in the distance.

Natasha is friendly, enjoys being petted, and would be delighted to join you for the sacred autumn rituals: lighting a candle called something like Harvest Moon Orchard Hayride, buying three tiny pumpkins at Trader Joe’s, taking a photo of your coffee next to a leaf, and announcing “I can finally wear layers” the second the temperature drops below 70.

So happy first day of fall from Natasha, a cat who understood the assignment before there even was an assignment. Your move, September.

We are open for adoptions from 12 to 4:30 PM every day except Wednesdays.

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Canelo is seven years old. He has three legs. And we know those two facts may make finding his adopter a little harder.

There will always be younger dogs. Dogs without a medical history. Dogs whose photos are easier to look at and immediately imagine fitting into your life. But choosing a dog isn’t supposed to be about finding the one with the fewest complications on paper. It’s about finding the one you want beside you when you wake up in the morning. The one whose face you look for when you walk through the door. The one who becomes so thoroughly woven into your everyday life that eventually you can’t remember what the house felt like without him.

That dog could be Canelo. He is a happy, friendly, active Doberman at our Santa Maria Campus who has adapted beautifully to life on three legs. He has lived with another dog before, enjoys companionship, and still has so much life to live. He doesn’t need someone to overlook his age or his missing leg. He needs someone who can look at the whole dog standing in front of them and realize those things don’t make him less worthy of choosing.

We can tell you all of that, but ultimately, Canelo needs one person to do something much more important than feel for him. He needs someone to come meet him.

Because the best thing that could happen to Canelo isn’t for thousands of people to read his story and think he deserves a home. It’s for one person to decide that home will be theirs.

Canelo is available for adoption at our Santa Maria Campus. We are open for adoptions from 12 to 4:30 PM every day except Wednesdays at both campuses.

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There are days when the world feels like a lot. And then there are days when you look at Penelope’s tiny orange face and remember that the universe is also making kittens. So, you know. Maybe we’re going to be okay.

Penelope is a two-month-old orange tabby at our Santa Maria Campus, and and at a whopping 1.87 pounds, she is basically a fun-size serving of joy. She has been socialized with other cats, is curious about the world, and has an entire lifetime ahead of her to investigate sunbeams, discover the mysterious allure of cardboard boxes, sprint down a hallway for reasons known only to Penelope, and eventually become extremely particular about which chair in your house belongs exclusively to her.

Right now, though, she is just at the very beginning. Everything is new. Everything is interesting. There are windows she hasn’t looked out of yet, toys she hasn’t chased, naps she hasn’t taken in wildly inconvenient locations, and people she hasn’t gotten to love. We think that’s a pretty wonderful thing to get to be part of.

Penelope is here. The sun is shining. Kittens exist. Hope persists.

We are open for adoptions from 12 to 4:30 PM every day except Wednesdays.

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