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Parke-Vermillion County Humane Society

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10/25/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out to the special Petsmart Terre Haute adoption event today!

We had many adoptions and are especially delighted that older dog, Duke found his family.

We still have dogs and cats waiting for their forever homes. Come by the shelter and see who is waiting for you.

10/24/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out to Petsmart Terre Haute for their National Adotion event.

Three dogs from our shelter found homes: Sassy, Wiggles and Ghosty.

We will be back tomorrow with more puppies and shih tzus. You can find out more about who will be at the store on Sunday in an earlier post.

10/24/2026

We will have more puppies and Shih Tzus at Petsmart Terre Haute on Sunday Oct. 25 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

All of the animals are up to date on vaccines and have been spayed or neutered and are microchipped.

We do not know how they are with children or cats. All of them have been around other dogs on a limited basis.

Come and say hello! More information in the captions.

10/23/2026

We will have Shih Tzus and puppies at Petsmart Terre Haute on both Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 24 and 25 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

We have had the Shih Tzus groomed so we are showing some before and after photos.

This is PetsMart's National Adoption Week. Several shelters and rescues will be at the store in Terre Haute offering dogs and puppies. We will also have cats available!

Come and meet a new friend.

Info in the captions.

These are the dogs that will be there on Saturday.

Remember all of our animals are spayed or neutered and up to date on vaccines as well as microchipped.

Edited to add adoption fees into the captions.

10/16/2026

Update ***** Owner came an took him home*** Found on Walnut and Main in Clinton. Call the shelter ..

10/15/2026

The shelter is in need of newspapers, if anyone has any laying around we could use them.

10/15/2026

If you are heading to Mansfield during the rest of the Parke County Covered Bridge Festival, the folks at Mansfield Restoration LLC are collecting donations for several organizations including the shelter.

This area of Mansfield is located near the Covered Bridge. It is on Main Street from the Country Story to the German Roasted Nuts shack near the Guest Inn.

Approximately 10 vendors in this area are participating but more may join. Bring a dry good, pet food or hygine product with you and trade it for an item at a participating booth. Participating vendors will have their flyer posted with their donation offer. For example, German Roasted Nuts is offring a $5 small cone with every donation.

Donations will go to this shelter, The Parke County Food Pantry and the Clay County Emergency Food shelter.

This is NOT something that the entire Mansfield area is doing. It is just in this section that is run by Mansfield Restoration. The Festival runs through Sunday.

10/08/2026

Looking for a puppy? Now is the time!
These eight great pups are only $100 right now!

For the first time in recent memory we are reducing the adoption fees of our puppies. Our puppies normally are adopted very fast, but we have had these little ones a month now. There are eight of them from two different litters. They are about five months old.

Sadly, almost every local Facebook town group has free puppies (and kittens) listed almost every day. When you take one of those free animals, you are helping that one animal, but you are rewarding the person who allowed two dogs to breed and who had no clear plan on what to do with the offspring. Those "free" puppies and kittens are rarely spayed or neutered. So, in 8 months (or less) they will make more free puppies and kittens.

The situation of free puppies and kittens is at one of the highest levels anyone in animal welfare can remember seeing. So, because irresponsible people do not get their pets fixed and other people cannot afford to get their pets fixed, we cannot adopt out our puppies as quickly as normal.

Please don't let these little ones grow up in the shelter. And we can't help all those other puppies while we have these puppies.

All of these are microchipped, spayed or neutered and up to date on vacccinations. And you can see in the video they are super friendly and they just want to have their own person.

We are open for adoptions Tuesday through Saturday noon to 4 p.m. But, if you can't make that, call the shelter and we can often work with people who need to come at other times.

These puppies are not free. But, they will not make other puppies in a few more months.

They are a very mixed breed lot. While some people might say "pitbull" that should not be negative as you can see they are friendly and they certainly do not look like they are full-blooded anything. They are 100 percent mixed breed.

10/03/2026

This doggy was found on Dooley Road in Parke County. North of Guion south of SR 47. You can call to claim at the shelter..

09/30/2026

Edit:

Bandit has been adopted. Duke still needs a home.

We recently took in these two senior dogs after their owner had a serious medical issue and could no longer care for them.

Duke on the left is 9 years old. He is a shih tzu mix. Bandit is 16 and is a pomeranian.

These dogs are not bonded so they do not need to be adopted together. They have not been together their entire lives. The owner said they are good with kids and cats, they are crated trained and potty trained. Bandit does need to be on a soft food diet as he has missing teeth.

Both dogs received regular medical attention and the onwer did not report any health issues. Bandit is still a spunky guy for his age.

These little ones just had their world turned upside down and are very scared in the shelter. If you have room in your heart for a little dog or an older dog who just needs a soft place to land to spend his last years, please come by the shelter and meet them.

For Bandit we are asking that you be financially committed to having a senior welfare veterinary appointment for him. To that end his adoption fee is whatever you would like to donate to us. It is more important to us that he find a good home with people who can financially provide for his medical care for his final years.

Address

1884 S St Road 63
Hillsdale, IN
47854

Opening Hours

Tuesday	12pm - 4pm
Wednesday	12pm - 4pm
Thursday	12pm - 4pm
Friday	12pm - 4pm
Saturday	12pm - 4pm

Telephone

+17654923540

Website

http://www.mypvchs.org/

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