Animal Stories

The Spring edition of Stray Thoughts is now available. Read it online.

Meet Icy and her son Hercules. They lived a life of neglect, hunger and danger as outdoor dogs on a property facing a busy road. Icy had several litters of puppies but they all fell prey to other animals or cars on the road. Hercules is the only one to survive. 

Heidi started volunteering at WSHS seven years ago as the canine foster care coordinator.  

Meet three dogs that have been at the shelter far too long. All of these dogs have wonderful qualities but each have special adoption requirements that have been holding them back from finding their forever homes. Meet Sevvy, Daffodil and Pittie Patter.

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It was a cold winter morning, when a Good Samaritan looked out her window and saw something huddled up against the side of her house. She went outside to see what it was and found Nadirah. 

On #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving, and WSHS will be collecting donations for our Loving Angel Fund so that cats and dogs with ongoing medical conditions can be adopted. The shelter uses the fund to share long-term medical costs with adopters so that dogs like Carrera can find a home.

The Fall edition of Stray Thoughts is now available. Read it online.

Monday mornings can be “ruff” for some people, but the WSHS dogs are happy to see the kennel cleaning crew each Monday morning, and the volunteers are happy to see them. 

Photos from Barkapalooza 2018 are now available for viewing and/or purchase.

The Summer edition of Stray Thoughts is now available. Read it online.

Stop by the kennel early on a Saturday morning and you will find the every other Saturday “Saturday1”morning crew hard at work, feeding, medicating, cleaning the kennel runs and socializing all of the 20 or more WSHS dogs. 

Want to have some fun with your dog this summer? Suburban K9 and West Suburban Humane Society will be offering a 6 week Beginner Obedience Class and a 6 week Advanced Obedience class. 

Let’s meet some of our newest WSHS volunteers - our new Pet Therapy Teams!

The Spring edition of Stray Thoughts is now available. Read it online.

When our rescue partners in Oklahoma contacted us about an older flat coated retriever that needed rescue we immediately said yes. One look into those beautiful brown eyes and we were hooked. Poor Sadie has been without a home for over 5 years. She was originally found as a stray In Oklahoma. She lived there for a few years and was transferred to another rescue in the Chicago area when space became available. That shelter kept her for about a year and then returned her because she needed training. The rescue in Oklahoma loved Sadie but wanted her to have the best chance of finding a home and that’s where we came in.