The Humane Society needs supplies for animals

HOW YOU CAN HELP

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The Humane Society of Greater Dayton has been serving the area for 111 years.

“It is the oldest, most established animal-advocate center in the area,” said executive director Brian Weltge, who explains that the nonprofit, non-tax-supported organization is unique in that it works with all kinds of animals, not just cats and dogs.

“We also have rabbits, guinea pigs, birds,” he said. “We’re the only organization called in for this wide variety of animals including farm and exotic animals.”

Three years ago, the facility became a “no-kill” animal shelter.

The group, which serves a community of more than 574,000 people in a 462-square-mile area, does pet adoptions, spay and neuter surgeries, cruelty prevention and investigations for all types of animals, school education programs, off site adoptions and information referral. It maintains a lost and found pet directory and a Trap Neuter Return (TNR) for unadoptable cats.

The group runs the Meowza Cat Boutique inside the Dayton Mall, which sells cat supplies and tries to find new homes for kitties.

The organization’s 400 volunteers do everything from answering phones and walking dogs to playing with cats and working at the Dayton Mall Boutique. If you want to help, in addition to volunteering or adopting a pet, you can donate a wish list item.

Here’s what the Humane Society needs:

• Cat/kitten toys

• Friskies or Fancy Feast canned cat food, only pate

• Iams, Pedigree, Cesar or Science Diet canned dog food, only pate or ground dog food

• Iams dry dog/puppy/kitten/cat food

• Purina Cat or Kitten Chow dry cat food

• Royal Canin® Babycat 34 kitten food

• KMR — Kitten Milk Replacement

• Iams Veterinary Formula Intestinal Low Residue canned dog or cat food

• Greenies pill pockets

• Wild birdseed

• Havahart® live cat traps

• Bunny toys

• Plastic baby keys

• Large towels

• Kuranda pet beds

• Kong dog toys

• Pro Select large cat cages

• Cat litter

• Small and medium collars

• Pet waste bags

• Milkbone biscuits, small or medium

• Therapeutic large beds that are waterproof with removable bed cover

• Quiet Time 18-by-12 inch fleet cat beds

• Empty prescription bottles

• 35-mm film canisters

• Paper bowls

• Distilled water

• Paper and cloth surgical drapes, all sizes

• Eye ointment

• Bandaging material (padding, gauze patches 4-by-4, tape, wrap, casting material)

• Rubbing alcohol

• Mineral oil

• Microscope slides and slide cover slips

• Immersion oil

• Warm water circulating heating pad

• Liquid hand soap

• Liquid dish soap (not for a dishwasher)

• Bleach

• Fabric-softener sheets

• Paper towels

• Toilet paper

• Facial tissue

• Commercial-grade large capacity washer and dryer

• Glass cleaner

• Copy paper (white, blue, pink)

• Post-it notes

• Manilla file jackets

• White-out tape

• Scotch tape

• Rubber bands

• Binder clips

• Spiral notebooks

• HP LaserJet 4050 printer

• 9-by-12 white envelopes

• 10-by-13 white envelopes

• Brother TN450 High Yield toner cartridge — black

• White card stock

• White mailing labels

You can drop off donations at one of the following locations: