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Traveling with Your Pets

The travel season is upon us, and many people are planning their summer vacations with their furry pets. However, traveling with pets requires a little more planning than simply letting them hop up into the seat. Ensuring your pet's safety while driving is essential,...

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Our Stories

Traveling with Your Pets

The travel season is upon us, and many people are planning their summer vacations with their furry pets. However, traveling with pets requires a little more planning than simply letting them hop up into the seat. Ensuring your pet's safety while driving is essential,...

April 30 is National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day

April 30 is National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day. It’s a day set aside to raise awareness of the thousands of animals in shelters waiting to be adopted into new homes. At the Humane Society of the Black Hills, we saw 5,227 animals come through the doors in 2018 and we...

Kennel Project Update

Mason Company kennels like the ones seen here have been selected for the "Homes for the Holidays" dog kennel's upgrade. Fund raising that started in September of last year to raise money for new dog kennels reached the set goal and is moving forward. The Humane...

Social media is a great tool, but be careful out there

Social media has provided the Humane Society of the Black Hills (HSBH) with affordable and effective tools to reach thousands of people concerned about animal welfare and the challenges of managing the unwanted animal populations in our communities.

But just recently, the HSBH was made aware of events generated from social media platforms which were designed to, apparently, mislead other users. Both of these events referenced the local humane society and neither was legitimate.

Holiday Dogs: Shelter dogs find a home for Christmas

RAPID CITY, S.D. - The Humane Society of the Black Hills is embarking on the first Holiday Dogs program to put 10 shelter dogs into temporary holiday homes for Christmas. Ten families who meet the criteria will welcome a Humane Society shelter dog into their homes...

Black Berry’s long journey ends with a homecoming

(12/1/2018) Black Berry the cat caught a flight home to California Tuesday morning thanks to a loving family that never gave up hope. Black Berry was brought in as a stray after getting away from the family in August. They were heartbroken. Fortunately he had a...

Humane Society turns 50

RAPID CITY, S.D. – The Humane Society of the Black Hills is celebrating 50 years of serving the surrounding communities and caring for the lost, homeless and forgotten animals. To recognize the 50th year since incorporation, on Saturday, Dec. 1, cat and dog adoptions...

Microchip ends cat’s year-long journey

When Kim Goodwin came to the Humane Society of the Black Hills to pick up her long-lost cat Cam, she said it had been an emotional day. She had gotten in the call that morning that Cam was alive and well, having been picked up on Nemo Road about seven miles from home...