Animals who need your help . . .   Cheyenne is a 2-3 year old female pit-bull mix who is heartworm positive and blind in one eye! She's a sweetheart who's housebroken, great with other dogs, good with cats, kids, and just a super dog. She was scheduled for euthanasia at the animal shelter, and we squeezed her into our foster program. We need funds to help cover the costs of Cheyenne’s medical care. Heartworm treatment is expensive, and we have several dogs we are trying to treat! Cheyenne will be available for adoption once treatment is complete. Many dogs like Cheyenne never have a chance to find a home due to lack of funding and a lack of foster homes. Please contact us ASAP if you can help donate funds toward heartworm positive dogs or are interested in becoming a foster parent!! It's heartbreaking that a dog has to be euthanized just because it was bitten by a mosquito and the owners never bothered to administer heartworm preventative... Sugar and Spice: Sugar is a one-year-old, female pit-bull mix who also is heartworm positive. She is now in a foster home and receiving treatment. Heartworm treatment is expensive and the cure takes awhile. We are trying to get donations to cover Sugar’s care. She'll be available for adoption soon, and if you're interested in her, please contact us as soon as you can! Spice was abandoned along with Sugar and was lucky enough to be heartworm negative, but was so neglected that she was bald from the neck down. She was horribly itchy, full of infection, and miserable, but both dogs’ sunshine personalities led us to find foster space in order to save their lives. Spice will get all of her hair back – she’s currently being treated, and it’s already growing back! She'll be a beautiful girl soon! If you can help donate to cover some of the costs of Spice's care or are interested in Spice please contact us!! Honcho is a one-year-old, neutered male shepherd/Rottweiler mix. He’s good with other dogs, cats, and kids. Honcho is housebroken too! He’s a smart, loving, playful, affectionate boy!

Do you recognize this dog? Remember seeing pictures of Maggie here on the home page; the starved and heartworm-positive yellow lab who was looking for donations so that she could undergo heartworm treatment once she was stronger? Well, look at her now. Thanks to the love and attention from a wonderful foster home and donations from friends like you, Maggie will soon be ready for adoption. What a happy face! Love is better the second time around.

There are literally hundreds of ways you can help us and help the animals. If you have the tiniest inkling that you would like to offer a hand, there is something for you. You can donate funds online by using the Donate button above, by mail to P.O. Box 55, Ionia, MI 48846 or in person using any one of many donation canisters located at area businesses. You can choose to donate any item or items from our “Wish List.” If you are a seamstress, we need you to help make cat beds, dog crate pads, both for us to use for our fostered animals and to sell at fundraising events. If you are a baker, you could bring baked goods for a bake sale. Hold a garage sale and donate the proceeds. Donate one hour or so a month to transport a dog to PETsMART for an adoption day or to a vet appointment. Learn to help process adoption applications to help us at PETsMART. Come to PETsMART on adoption days to help monitor animals, take dogs out for “potty breaks,” help make photocopies, etc. Foster a cat or dog. Make craft items for us to sell at fundraising events. Help us with our annual Christmas wreath sale in November-December. Make dog treats or cat treats to sell at a fundraising event. Donate or solicit from others, items we can auction at a live or silent auction fundraiser. Visit foster homes to take digital photos of foster animals for those foster families who don’t have a camera. Help distribute flyers for coming events. Help us think of new fundraisers. Loan a dog crate for offsite adoption events. Pay for an ad in the newspaper or Shoppers Guide for announcing fundraising or adoption events.

Did you know that every single donation helps our fur friends at Safe Haven, no matter how small? Every penny counts -- speaking of counting, just count the ways below that your donation, large or small, can help our fur friends at Safe Haven Humane Society, including Taylor and Asia above. Those pennies are crucial to our rescue and rehab efforts.   $5 pays for: 1)  Short veterinary exam for pre-adoption health certificate 2)  Drawing of blood for feline leukemia and heartworm testing 3)  Fecal parasite examination 4)  First set of vaccinations for a dog $10 pays for: 1)  Antibiotic eye drops for eye infection 2)  First set of vaccinations for a cat 3)  40# bag of cat litter 4)  25# of cat or kitten food $20 pays for: 1) 50# bag of dog or puppy food 2)  Oral antibiotic liquid 3)  Topical fungal, antibiotic, steroidal treatment for ear infection $25 pays for: 1) Neuter of male cat 2)  Heartworm preventative for 6 small dogs or 3 large dogs 3)  Flea and tick treatment for 3 large dogs $50 pays for: 1) Neuter of one dog 2)  Spay for one cat 3)  X-ray of ill or injured animal $100 pays for: 1)  Tumor biopsy 2)  Half the cost of amputation 3)  Large dog crate 4)  Almost half the cost of heartworm treatment