OUR MISSION
The mission of the Elmbrook Humane Society is to promote the human-animal bond through adoption and education, to provide shelter to homeless animals, and to prevent animal cruelty and neglect.

Is Elmbrook Humane Society a No-Kill Shelter?

YES! Elmbrook Humane Society is a no-kill organization. According to Maddie's Fund it means that we save all healthy and treatable animals. Click here to see our animal outcome statistics for 2011.

Available Statistics

EBHS 2011
EBHS January - April 2012

Our goal is always to choose life. We do not euthanize animals unless they are too dangerous to be made available for adoption or have serious behavior issues that cannot safely or successfully be rehabilitated and adopted into a new home. If an animal is sick and we can treat it, we absolutely will. This covers injuries and illness. If our veterinarian tells us that the animal cannot be saved we will respect that, but if there is hope, we will proceed. We do not euthanize animals because of space, age, breed, length of stay, or whom may have acute or chronic health conditions that can be treated prior to adoption or managed by a new family.

We have committed ourselves and our resources to save every animal possible. Our intake and adoption programs have been adapted to be more open and friendly to animals and potential adopters. We have created areas where we can treat animals with contagious diseases so that they have the time to recover without becoming a risk to our shelter animal population, staff and visitors to our shelter. We have revamped our temperament testing process to give adopters the best possible information when they are in to meet our animals. We work with adopters to help transition animals into new homes and help them overcome any adjustment issues they encounter. Our foster care program has expanded to help animals with behavior issues to be worked with until they can be given the best possible chance for a successful adoption.

We work hard to take in as many animals as possible from animal control facilities like MADACC where there is no formal adoption program so that we can provide a second chance to as many animals as possible. We provide animal control services to several communities in Waukesha County and work to reunite animals with their owners and if that cannot be done to rehome the strays that are not reclaimed as quickly as possible.

We work with owners from all over to accept as many surrenders as possible. We get calls from all over the state - and beyond - from people that know the quality of life that our shelter animals enjoy - but we cannot take them all in, as much as we wish we could.

We are a small shelter, with a dedicated staff, and a strong volunteer base. We have doubled the amount of animals that come through here each year by working hard and making the most of all of our resources. We need help from our community - both by adopting our wonderful animals and spreading the word about the great shelter we have, and through financial support that enables us to take in more animals that have no other possibility for a second chance.
 

OUR GOALS

  • To work toward providing a temporary refuge for stray, homeless, and deserted animals and to place them in good homes.
  • To reduce the population of excess dogs and cats in Waukesha County and surrounding areas.
  • To organize and conduct educational programs for the public in the humane care and treatment of animals.
  • To reunite lost companion animals with their guardians.
  • To partner with wildlife rehabilitation organizations to rescue, shelter, and treat wildlife.

ABOUT EBHS

  • EBHS has service contracts with the City of Brookfield, Villages of Butler, Chenequa, Elm Grove, Nashotah and the Towns of Brookfield and Delafield. These contracts provide for taking unwanted pets and strays, and rescuing injured domestic animals and wildlife. The society supports the communities by requiring proof of licensing when individuals claim strays.
  • EBHS has no geographic limits for adoptions. In addition, the Society will take releases from communities other than our contracted municipalities for a small release fee when, and if, space permits.
  • EBHS has no deadline for the animals in its care. Animals are placed for adoption as long as they have an adoptable temperament, have reasonable health, and there is room at the shelter.
  • EBHS is an Adoption Guarantee shelter with a 100% adoption rate for all healthy and adoptable animals.  This means that we are introducing new companion animals every day for you to view and adopt.
  • In an effort to curb the number of unwanted and excess pets, all EBHS adopted animals are spayed or neutered before going to their new home.
  • EBHS handles approximately 2500 wild and domestic animals on an annual basis. Additional animals are also placed through our referral program.

 

 

 




20950  Enterprise Avenue | Brookfield WI 53045-5224
Phone: (262) 782-9261 | Fax: (262) 782-3356 | E-mail: elmbrookhs@ebhs.org