Vote for your favorite shelter in the $300,000 shelter challenge and help us with our fund raising efforts. Click the link below, enter Ridgecrest, the state of CA and search. Click on the vote button to the right of the shelter name returned, and enter the confirmation code. You'll receive a notice that you have voted for us. Please vote once a day. The shelters with the most votes, wins a portion of the $300,000 shelter challenge. Share this link with your friends, as well. Takes less than a minute, with the click of a button.
Help us reach our goal to purchase a mobile veterinary medical unit. Your donation is tax deductible. Please make your check payable to the IWV Humane Society. Call the supervisor, Mary Stage, at Ridgecrest Animal Shelter for details.
If you need help to get your critter fixed, please call Ridgecrest Animal Shelter at 760-499-5190.
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| Reesie Pet ID: 11-623 |
Crescent Pet ID: KC11-307 |
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We believe the answer to pet overpopulation is prevention of unwanted litters of kittens and puppies. By performing a relatively simple surgery, we can put an end to the suffering that irresponsible pet owners and puppy mill breeders have created resulting in so many unwanted litters.
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| Recycle at Golden Empire Salvage (Ridgecrest Blvd & Downs St) and ask their office staff to put your receipt into the Humane Society account. | |
| Recycle at Pearson's Recycling and ask their office staff to put your receipt into the Humane Society account. | |
| Look for Pennies for Pets cans at local retailers and DONATE! | |
Remember, proceeds benefit the shelter animals and community spay/neuter progams.
Come on down to the shelter, pick out your new best friend, and fill out an adoption application. The adoption fee covers the spay or neuter, current vaccines including rabies, a city license (if applicable), an AVID microchip with lifetime registration, some toys, a new pet DVD, and a small bag of Science Diet.
The shelter schedules the spay/neuter and on the day of surgery does the vaccines and microchip. Then the Animal Control van delivers your new best friend to the vet. The vet does the surgery and rabies vaccine. In the afternoon, YOU pick up your pet at the vet. There is only vet that the shelter uses.
The usual adoption fees (unless we have a "special" going) are:
$98 for male dogs requiring neutering and $109 for female dogs requiring spaying. If already fixed, adoption is $45 with additional fees possible if microchip transfer is required;
$56.50 for male cats and $66 for female cats (unless already spayed/neutered). Then, adoption of the cat would be $30.
The Indian Wells Animal Hospital is a new clinic in Ridgecrest located at 129 E Ridgecrest Blvd. Their number is 760-375-7123.
We are on facebookM now! Petfinder is currently having problems with pictures. Please see facebook/ridgecrest animal shelter for most current pictures of our adoptable animals until petfinder has their issues resolved.
If you need help to get your critter fixed, please call Ridgecrest Animal Shelter.
As most of you know, the IWV Humane Society is the major non-profit organization doing fundraising for the Ridgecrest Animal Shelter, the STOP (Stop Pet OverPopulation), C.A.T. (Cat About Town), and PUP programs, as well as other spay & neuter assistance for the Indian Wells and Searles Valleys communities. The IWVHS is working hard to control animal overpopulation and would appreciate your support. Please make a tax-deductible, secure, online donation with the new DONATE button above. Thanks for your support!
| Ridgecrest and Indian Wells Valley |
The Indian Wells Animal Hospital is a new clinic in Ridgecrest located at 129 E Ridgecrest Blvd. Their number is 760-375-7123. |
| Kern County |
The Kern Humane Society provides 2 vouchers every 3 months per household. Vouchers are issued on the first Saturday of the month. You must be there in person or call Sue Bennet at the Kern Humane Society for instructions on how to have them mailed to you. Their thrift shop is in Bakersfield. Call 661-325-2589. | .
| San Bernardino and Riverside Counties | POPCO (the Pet Overpopulation Coalition) provides vouchers for cats and dogs. 3 vouchers are provided at a time. When the vouchers are used, you can get 3 more. 888-767-2550 |
| The Cat People | The Cat People Organization provides 1 voucher per month per household. Call them on the FIRST of the month as the vouchers go very quickly. Leave message if they are not answering. They WILL call you back. |
| Inyo County | ICARE of the Eastern Sierra is the Inyo County Spay & Neuter Resource for domestic pets as well as feral cats |
| PIT BULLS | Kern County Pit Project |
If you want to volunteer at the shelter, you need to be at least 18 and a member of PACT (Police and Community Together). You can get a PACT application (like a job app) at the shelter or at the police department. Please contact Mary Stage, Shelter Supervisor, and PACT .
Please contact mStage@ci.Ridgecrest.ca.us for more information on volunteering.
Meet Tommy, who was serving community service as the shelter's official greeter. He was busted by Animal Control Officer ''Tina'' for jay-walking in Ridgecrest Boulevard. He now lives at a home for wayward Desert Tortoises.
Help us reach our goal to purchase a mobile veterinary medical unit. Your donation is tax deductible. Please make your check payable to the IWV Humane Society. Call the supervisor, Mary Stage, at Ridgecrest Animal Shelter for details.
Please bring to the shelter at 411 San Bernardino Blvd. Mary will give you a tax receipt if you ask. Tell your friends!
If you have a dog house that you no longer need or use, please consider donating it to the shelter. We will see that it goes to a pet in the community that is without shelter.
Our hours of operation are:
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Ridgecrest is the town outside Naval Air Warfare Center at China Lake in the high Mojave Desert. It is about 3 hours N of Los Angeles, about 4 hours S of Mammoth Mountain, 2 hours E of Bakersfield, and 1.5 hours NNE of Lancaster/Edwards Air Force Base. If that still doesn't do it for you, pull up the mapquest map below!
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