Crawford County Humane Society

911 E Wilkin St. Robinson, IL 62454

Hours are Tues thru Sat from 1 to 5 pm

Map to our shelter

Click Here to View Our Cats for Adoption!

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Adopting a friend

The adoption fee for altered dogs is $80 and cats are $60, includes microchipping, first vaccination and worming but additional fees may apply if other medical work is done prior to adoption. The adoption fee for unaltered dogs and cats is the cost to spay or neuter plus $55 to cover microchipping, first vaccination and worming. Additional fees may apply if other medical work is done prior to adoption. Generally in our area the fees will be from $154 for a male dog and up to $190 for a female dog or about $95 and up for a cat adoption, depending on which veterianrian we can get the animal into for the alteration surgery. Please contact the shelter for more information.

LAST CHANCE PETS

Time is of the essence with these pets. Please CALL the shelter at 618-544-8698 if interested in one of them. All pets marked EX URGENT are in need of help immediately as they are at risk of being put to sleep as the shelter fills to capacity.

We are a small county animal control shelter and must sometimes make tough decisions on who gets to stay and who must go if adoptions or qualified rescues are not forthcoming. We only have to move on in our small shelter because of space, not for lack of caring.

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Stray Dogs

The shelter is the animal control for the county. All stray dogs do come to the shelter to be held for claiming or adoption if not claimed.

Monthly Shelter meeting

Our shelter holds a monthly meeting on the last Tuesday of every month at 6 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend.

Rescues

We do often work with Rescue groups. To be part of our Shelter Transfer Program please e-mail cchs62454@yahoo.com for a rescue transfer form. When we receive your completed form, we will review it. Please allow several days for this review process.

Donations

Now you can make donations online through PayPal. You can specify a certain animal you would like to sponsor for shots, HW tests or altering. Or you can just make a general donation to help pay for medicines for the animals and other general care items the shelter is always in need of like wormers, flea and tick preventative etc.

Who We Are

The Crawford County Humane Society is an open door non-profit organization. Our goal is to provide a safe place for animals in need to go. We provide animal control for Crawford County which is a rural community. On our very limited budget we operate a shelter that works hard thru mostly volunteerism to have a very efficient loving shelter.

Sad to say we can not keep them forever. There is never enough space even though we would make you smile to see how creative we are finding a nook in our little building to keep a litter just one more day.

Some of our biggest challenges come in finding homes for the larger dogs like: Labs, Rotweillers, St. Bernards, etc. all of these animals are beautiful and of course have great temperaments. All of our animals, be it a puppy, dog, kitten or cat, have great personalities and will respond to your affection with a bond that will last a lifetime. They know what you have done for them when you adopt one.

I could go on and on for some of us have worked and dreamed for ten years for this shelter, keeping animals in our homes, using our own funds and energy. Finally one gentleman donated a piece of ground and two sisters gave us the means to build the shelter. The rest is up to us. With your help we will find homes for your next best friend.

Hours are Tuesday through Saturday 1-5pm. We are closed Sunday and Monday and holidays: New Year's day, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

Please note: If you decide to call the shelter at 618-544-8698 with questions about animals listed here, CALL DURING business hours.

Come Visit Us!

Crawford County Humane Society
911 East Wilkin Street
Robinson,IL 62454
Phone: 618-544-8698

We are located on rt 33 near the junction of rt 1 which is close to the IN border. We are an hour from Effingham, IL; two hours from Champaign, IL; about five hours from Chicago, IL; an hour from Terre Haute, IN and about two and a half hours from Indianapolis, IN.

Director:Debbie Dix

Email: cchs62454@yahoo.com

General information

We receive a little over $27,000 from our county to provide animal control for this area. We can barely pay for basic expenses such as payroll, insurances, utilities, ect. with this money. None of the individual communities in the area pay for stray pick up or sheltering. We are always looking for ways to earn extra money for medicine and those rainy days. The shelter depends greatly on donations because the real cost of running the shelter is closer to $120,000 a year.

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