Jacksonville Humane Society

I got my Wire haired Jack Russell terrier here as a pup. She came from a puppy mill that was recently busted. That was 8 years ago and she’s as spoiled and adorable as she ever was. Came here for a kitten, had to visit several times cause almost all of them were already adopted. Finally we hit pay dirt and found our glorious Harley Quinn. Definitely rescue and don’t shop for your fur family. The universe thanks you.

I’ve been coming here off and on over the years, long before the fire that changed the whole place. They are still recovering, but are on the last phase — building the new shelter. So please pardon the dust and the mess, it’s getting better.
I adopted my Tony Elliott (dog) from JHS last summer during a mega-​adoption. He was heartworm positive and a sponsor generously paid for his treatment here at the hospital. The ladies and gents who work in the hospital are all awesome and loving. Tony came from a very hard life but loves these people so much. He has a lot of issues, but has never shown any aggression or fear of anyone working here. The hospital is beautiful and spotlessly clean.
I will support this place for as long as it exists. That’s how much I believe in them.

My experience was awesome.
The staff was friendly and helpful, although kinda a wait to see a dog– it was well worth it. I’m a huge fan of anything that involves «no kill».
We spent roughly 2 hours loving on each animal before selecting 3 we’d like to visit.
As we were inside waiting I saw a beautiful brindle dog laying in an office. Immediately I was in love. The lady let my husband and I come inside and love on him for a good 30 minutes while we waited to see the other pups. Every dog we interacted with was loving and sweet. But I couldn’t get The beautiful pit bull out of my head. As we were leaving we made sure to say our goodbyes to him.
The next day I went back «to visit» and ended up leaving with Roberto. The entire adoption process took 30 – 45 minutes. He was sponsored and most of the animals there our so we only paid for his rabies tag and heart worm medicine. They also have a veterinarian clinic which is cheaper than most places around town.
The staff was amazing and told me I’m welcome to bring him in to visit anytime. Which made me fall in love with this shelter even more. The fact that they fall in love and have special bonds with the animals is awesome.
I highly recommend checking them out and bringing home a new family member. If you can’t adopt, donate or foster!!!

New medling neighbors turned our dogs in 4 houses down from us as strays after a couple of hours. I come to get them ASAP and you tell me you can’t release them without surjury!!! Goodwill has crossed the line with unilateral self-​rightousness You have no right to my property or to hold them hostage!!! Your own employees did not even follow your protocols in simple steps to take before bringing them. If they had, we’d have our dogs!!! I am a dog lover through and through, but I must say the Humane Society of Jacksonville sucks and should lose all funding and volunteers. People don’t give donations for over stepping hippies to make their own rules with other peoples animals/​property. Most likely you will have two older unadoptable dogs because you kidnapped them and we will not pay your ransom because we do not negotiate with terrorists!!!

The Jax Humane Society does a great job. I have only been to the animal hospital portion, but they were so friendly and careful with my 90 pound baby. They were a little hard to get in contact with, but once I did it was all worth it. I will continue to bring my babies here for medical care.

I love animals and it is difficult to go here without wanting to take them all home. Specifically though I am rating the community animal hospital since that is where I have had the most interaction at this Humane Society. The challenging part of bringing our pets here is getting through to them on the phone to schedule an appointment. Almost always you will get the answering machine during business hours, but on the positive side someone will call you back if you leave a message. They also do not oversell you once you are in with the vet but the do honestly tell you what your pet needs. The veterinary staff also seems to love your animals whether you have cats or dogs, they love them all.

Extremely unprofessional. We found a tiny kitten, called this place asking them to take her. The snarky combative college student that answered the phone, not only accused me of trying to dump my personal pet but their intake schedule is «conveniently» 2 months out! Almost all of the Humane Societies have turned over «intake» responsibilities to the local county shelters now AND the local shelter in Jacksonville-​a non kill shelter… wants $ 200 to take a stray or surrendered animal! AND all the animals being dumped at vet clinics, the city/​county is forcing these vets to house, feed and care for these abandoned animals or face legal ramifications, because they don’t want them. The Humane Society has become a Low Cost Vet clinic that begs for donations, free money and free labor all while the CEO of The Humane Society makes a yearly salary of 4 MILLION dollars! It’s Disgusting! Welcome to the new business of Corporate Charity. We took the kitten to a clinic, had her dewormed, vaccinated and verified that she was in good health and WE found a home for her. DO NOT donate to this organization, there is nothing humane about what they do now, there are lots of low cost vet clinics that actually pay their employees with no million dollar CEO’s running the show.

Although I didn’t tour the entire shelter on my visit to drop off donations, I did have an opportunity to speak with some staff members. They were very helpful, spoke very highly of their dedication, the facility, and quality of accommodations. They also encouraged us to visit the Humane Society Thrift Store. We did and made purchases in order to help support the animals.
I was surprised at the disarray on the outside of the building. It seemed to also continue over to the thrift shop. I fully support any animal shelter attempting to help, that truly cares for animals, so I am hoping it was all due to a crazy Saturday afternoon.
I hope to update my review when I have had a chance to visit and tour more of the facility, visit animals in need of adoption as all of our Fur family have always found us through shelter adoptions or similar facilities.
Please visit your local humane society & donate whatever you may have to help support these needy animals in hopes of saving precious souls. Encourage friends & loved ones to adopt as opposed to purchase from pet shop or breeders. We have often seen, and adopted full breed, highly sought after life long companions from various shelters over past 25yrs.
My current lil guy is a full breed Yorshire Terrier who we adopted two yrs ago from a no kill shelter on Amelia Island.
Adoption makes your heart happy !!

I volunteer here as a large dog handler. I’ve always wanted to give back and help animals. This place is awesome and the animals here are great. If you need or want a pet swing by here and see what they have. They always have a lot of animals unfortunately. The puppies tend to rotate very quickly. They have two cat rooms one for kitties and one for bigger cats. They also have a few buildings dedicated to larger dogs. I hate seeing all the animals here, but i try to come in every week or every other weekend to volunteer and get the large dogs out of the cages and interact with them. Everyone here is nice and all they want to do is help get the animals into a home.

Not really anything to look at (inside or out) however, they had a big fire a couple years back that destroyed almost everything, and they’re on limited funds, so it looks great for what they have to work with. I got both my dogs from here, Tucker (age 3, lab mix) And they were wonderful the entire process. Brought tucker out to the yard so I could see him and play with him, (and talk my boyfriend into getting him) and it was wonderful. One look from tucker, and boyfriend was in love. Tucker is amazing. When boyfriend and i broke up and tucker stayed with me, they were very accommodating and understanding when I wanted to change tucker completely in to my name. On to second dog. (Brody, 2 years, Corgi German Shepard mix) Brody is not as well behaved as tucker. but thats nobodies fault. His most recent whoopsie was 3 of my wii remotes. But what are you going to do. When i adopted brody, he was still in the puppy room and not quite ready to go home yet. And when he was, I was at work. So i called to tell them I wanted my roommate to pick him up. She did, and it was seamless. They are there for the best interests of the animals, and it shows in everything they do.

Super nice, friendly, and informative. Every volunteer I seen took great care of the animals. I got my first cat here and it was the best experience. Highly recommend getting your pet here, save an animal and have great people helping you along the way!

I’m volunteering at JHS for 8 months, it is a great place to find your loving pets! If you can’t have pets, being a volunteer will be a nice option and helps a lot!

It seemed pretty clean for a shelter. It definitely makes one sad to see puppies in cages. Although, how can you give a bad review to a place that does great things? Keep up the good work.

Great organization that needs everyone’s support

I’m not sure why I waited until after our visit to the shelter to read the Unilocal reviews and tips.
Let me first start by saying though that we went to check out a pup we saw online and during the 100K saved challenge. (Which I love!)
Everyone was super helpful and volunteers were a-​plenty, as the event was going on and we came in on a Sunday afternoon.
I love how they have this set up… with different «street names» for the kennels, like San Barco.
Great and pretty big facility and animals seemed well taken care of.
We were pretty sad that the pretty girl we had picked out online was already adopted. (But glad at the same time she is going to a forever home.)
The tip I wish I would have known before, that is if you are looking for a small dog (we live in a townhome with a smaller back yard… so can’t accommodate a big pup like we would want) is that you have to stalk the website and go early, cause they get snatched up so fast! The pup we saw had her pic posted on Sat. and by Sunday she was gone.
It is kinda sad to walk by the sweet furry babies, and they look up at you with those sad eyes… man I want to save them all and it is a little heartbreaking to just pass them by.
But I love that this is no kill shelter and these folks truly love animals…
So while we left without a furry baby, we will definitely be stalking the website and making more visits. And since they run only on donations and get no federal funding, we will be donating to the cause as well.

Excellent staff and doctors. I would only take my pet here and if you live in the 32 216 zipcode you can get free spaying and neutering. No long waits, no incorrect advertising, and all of the people here want to help animals. They have a pet food bank, animal hospital, and shelter on the property. Volunteers give their time here with the animals and donations are always needed. There is an upcoming kitten baby shower where they take in supplies and also teach you about the place.

This is a great place to find your next pet!

JHS is a great place to go when looking for your new best friend. JHS is a no-​kill shelter that works with Jax Animal Protective Services to help find families for homeless pets.
They have a wonderful range of pets available: puppies, kittens, dogs, cats, and even rabbits! The animals are available for meet and greets at the shelter.
If you are serious about adopting, you should meet with an adoption specialist. You fill out a survey about what your needs/​expectations are in a pet, and they find some potential matches for you! This is a great way to make sure the new pet will fit in with your family.
If you want to see the cats, they have two rooms. One contains cats and kittens in cages, they other is the «cat room» where the older cats play. Puppies are in a special room, too. The older dogs are in the kennels outside. If you don’t want to adopt, you can volunteer to be a cat cuddler or dog walker. For more info, go to the website.
They have a small boutique in the main building where you can purchase leashes and collars. They recommend you bring these with you when adopting a pet, but why do that when you can buy them on site and know the money goes to a worthy cause!
Twice I have driven by JHS and seen dogs tied to the fence. I don’t understand how people can abandon their animals, but I feel good knowing that JHS does such tremendous work on their behalf. They are working to rebuild after their tragic fire, so if you’re not going to adopt, please make a donation.
Adopt a homeless pet, you’ll be glad you did!

Through tragedy comes new space for wayward fuzzy friends! I simply love this place and support these wonderful folks for the brilliant work they do for Jacksonvillians and their future pets. The Jax Humane Society just warms my heart.
So, 3 years ago, when the news reported that a fire had destroyed a large part of this facility and many of the animals inside I was truly devastated.
See there was a lot of personal history at this location as my first pound puppy was purchased here for a whopping adoption fee of $ 25.00 many, many years ago. That pup lived an incredibly long life and was my first baby so to speak! I remember frequenting this location for weeks before getting a call from one of the staff members that the perfect pup had arrived, and I needed to rush over to bring him home. That day the local news crew was there doing a feature on MY soon to be pup. I rushed over to the Humane Society to find a cameraman on his belly with my future furry buddy, giving him his first televised debut. I remember thinking, that with this kind of exposure, my little guy would get snatched up in a second, so I went through the rigorous interview to see if I was a fit for my furry friend. I was so excited leaving this place that I must have frequented a hundred times over those last weeks.
So yes, there is much nostalgia with this location and to see it being revamped like it has into an almost new facility is awesome! It seems like the Jax Humane Society has also begun even more community involvement as well in its efforts to continue with the fundraising needed for its sustainability. That is awesome as well!
Good people with good hearts here will really work hard to assist in finding the perfect pet addition to your home.