Open to the Public Tuesday to Friday, 12:00 NOON to 3 PM and Saturdays 11AM to 4 PM Year Round.
Closed Sunday and Monday.
Santa and his elves have asked me to let you know the dates and locations for this year's Pet Pics with Santa . Hope to see many of you at one of these locations:
Sunday, November 22nd - The Dog Shoppe, Mahone Bay from 1-4 PM
Saturday, November 28th - Shurgain, Bridgewater from 10 AM to 1 PM
Friday, December 4th - Gow's Home Hardware, Bridgewater 5:30 to 8:30 PM
Saturday, December 5th - Gow's Home Hardware, Bridgewater 1-4 PM
Saturday, December 12th - Your Friend and Mine, Gold River 1-4 PM
Pictures are $10 each or 3/$25, cash only. They are printed while you wait and later also uploaded to the internet so you may print or e-mail more copies. All proceeds go to SHAID of course!
Mark it on your calendars!!!!
Once again we are featuring the Home for the Holidays Program at SHAID. Cats who have been with us for 6 months or more will be adopted at one-half the regular adoption fee. The Shelter will absorb the remaining costs. So, there are 18 great cats available for a fee of $75 dollars each. This covers spay or neuter, leukaemia testing, vaccines, de-worming and flea control, and will be running until January 4th. Last year this program was very helpful in finding each cat his or her own Christmas family. We have high hopes again this year. The shelter will be closed for adoptions from December 22 to 29th in an attempt to control impulse gift giving. Pets are a lifetime commitment that will last long after the tissue and ribbons have been cleared away.
New to SHAID is JJ. She is a 10 month old border collie/boxer mix. JJ has a sweet disposition but needs an understanding owner with experience who is capable of giving her the life and love she deserves. She is the result of the misuse of the crate training system Crates are a training tool, not a baby sitter. JJ was raised in an apartment and spent far too much time stuffed in a crate. Dogs need exercise. Dogs like JJ need lots of exercise. Our busy lifestyles can make owning a dog inconvenient. We have to work at it. We have to make time to walk and play with Fido. If there is nobody home for extended periods for days in a row, we can make arrangements for puppy day care for a couple of those days. Maybe we need to hire a dog walker. You cannot stuff the dog in the crate for the night, take him out for a few moments in the morning and then return him to the crate while you go off to work for the day.
Our dear Casper finds herself homeless, being given up to the shelter. She is 11 years old and deserves to spend her senior years in a loving home.
For more info, click on the picture.
S.H.A.I.D. is full to the brim with wonderful, loving cats and many great dogs are also available.
We need your help. We need volunteers to run errands, to handle minor repairs, to do yardwork and shovel walkways. We need people to groom and train dogs (you do not have to be an experienced trainer). We need people to foster the sick and the young. When volunteers can give a morning to clean cat cages, the staff can get their other work caught up. Because of the need to control disease, you cannot go from cat to cat to socialize but you can drop in and groom one cat - clipping his claws, combing him and cleaning his ears. We need people to help with computer work (newsletter) and accounting. Also we would like to have a retired teacher available who is well aware of animal issues to offer humane education to schools.
If you would like to help in any of the above mentioned ways or in any other way you can think of, please contact the shelter. We will be happy to hear from you!
It's even easier now to donate to S.H.A.I.D. using your credit card securely online thanks to a partnership with Canada Helps, a non-profit group dedicated to assisting Canadian non-profits to raise funds. Just click on the button below.
You will receive a tax receipt (sent to your e-mail) which you can print out and send in to CCRA (Revenue Canada) with your income tax. Simple and almost painless! Try it. We hope that many of you will consider this convenient method to send your favourite charity (that would be us!) donations.
As you may know, each year we obtain some of our raffle prizes from our accumulated Club Z points from Zellers. This has meant that 100% of the proceeds from the raffle went directly to the animals. To donate your points to S.H.A.I.D., you will need to complete a "Supporting Member Donation Form" available from S.H.A.I.D. or from Zellers Customer Service and drop it off to them. S.H.A.I.D.'s Public ID Number which you will need to put on the form is 1005580 and the Community Organization Name should read "S.H.A.I.D. Tree Shelter Society" . You can donate all or a percentage of your points by indicating same on the form. Then , once this is processed, you just use your own HBC Rewards card and no longer need the Keytag. One less thing to carry around!!!!!
You can also register online at www.hbc.ca
Claudie LeCam, President
Mike Anderssen, Vice President
Daphney Tufts, Treasurer
Lisa Rhuland, Secretary
Andrea Lohnes
Crystal Berringer
John Ramsland
Ann Spracklin
Sara Kelley
Trevor Sinclair
Margie Bowes
Birgit Schmidt, Honorary Board Member
Our complete adoption policies can be read on our sister site. For our complete adoption policies, click here.
Our doors are open to all homeless and abandoned animals. Owned animals are admitted only if there is room.
We now have an adoption application form that you fill out prior to adoption and you must be approved before you can adopt one of our animals.
Adoption applications are NOT available on-line. Please e-mail or call to have one sent to you.
Please note: we do NOT do long distance adoptions over the Internet. We feel the best possible match requires the prospective owner meeting with the animal at the shelter. It is sometimes even necessary to visit more than once to allow the animal to become comfortable with you before taking him or her home. So if you see one of our critters on this site and fall in love, please make arrangements to come and meet them.
To become a S.H.A.I.D. member or to renew your membership, click here.
Membership is only $10 annually and it adds your voice to those who speak up for the needs of animals who cannot speak for themselves and this includes the cost of sending you our newsletter so you will know about everything that is happening here at S.H.A.I.D.!
If you prefer, call or e-mail the shelter and they will gladly send you a membership form which you can fill out and return with your $10 at your convenience. Tell them you saw it on this site!
LIFETIME MEMBERSHIPS are also available. To calculate your LM fee, subtract your age from 65 and multiply by 10 e.g. if you are 45 you subtract that from 65 ( which equals 20) times 10 and your LM fee is $200. If you are over age 65, it is a flat $100 fee. No more need to remember to send in your membership. You will get a lovely certificate suitable for framing.
There are many ways to get even more involved with helping our critters from cleaning out cat cages to walking and grooming the dogs or cats to just visiting them - they love to see people and love the attention. You can volunteer to help with fundraisers or drop off supplies needed constantly by the shelter. We welcome and invite you to help at whatever level suits you best and we thank you sincerely for your concern.
450 LaHave Street
Unit 17, Suite 138
Bridgewater, NOVA SCOTIA
CANADA B4V 4A3
Phone: 902 543-4849
Email: shaidtreeanimalshelter@yahoo.ca