Celebrating Miracles
Every Day
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$50 Socializes/prepares an animal for adoption
$100 Spays a female animal
$200 Provides one week of neonatal foster care for a puppy/kitten
$300 Vaccinates 100 animals
$500 Provides food for every animal in the shelter for one week
$1,000 Provides an emergency surgery for one animal
$2,500 Funds all shelter supplies for one week
$5,000 Funds all clinic supplies for one week
A home for miracles
Dear friends,
Our shelter is a home for miracles. Tonight, thanks to you, we celebrate these miracles both big and small.
When Española Humane was created 30 years ago, we had one mission: to ease the suffering of animals in our community. We achieve this intention each and every day through our simple, guiding force of offering more love per paw.
Along the way, our team has also discovered that helping pets helps people too – and this philosophy has never been more important than now. In these challenging times, we have been here for our community, connecting pets with people and connecting people with pets. Our team is committed to meeting both the needs of animals and the needs of the people we serve by providing free spay and neuter services, vaccines and medications, life-saving surgeries, and a healthy dose of second chances.
We don’t know how the community will need us in the future, but we know that with your support, we will be here fostering miracles every day, and helping those who need us most. They depend on us – and we depend on you.
Thank you.
Bridget Lindquist, Director
Española Humane
2020 Fur Fest Celebration
Meet the Stars of Our Video
Foster Mom Maizie is an 11-year-old who aspires to be a shelter veterinarian and surgeon, just like her heroes Dr. Parker and Dr. Yost. Between volunteering several days per week at the clinic and nurturing fosters, Maizie also takes care of her own pets: several special-needs cats and dogs, goat babies, chickens, and her 35-year-old pony. In her free time, Maizie rides horses, creates art, dances, works on films, and, yes, squeezes in her schoolwork.
Bridget Lindquist
Bridget joined Española Humane in 2005 and inherited an overwhelmed shelter staff in an aging facility. She recruited highly skilled talent who gradually increased adoptions, out-of-state transfers, added life-saving programs, and spay/neuter surgeries. Today, the open-admission shelter takes in 3,500 animals each year while the clinic provides more than 6,200 free surgeries.
Dr. Tom Parker
Dr. Tom joined Española Humane as our medical director in 2012 and was the mobile van surgeon for a neighboring shelter before that. He has a passion for high-quality, large volume spay-neuter clinics and volunteers with teams on Native American lands in Arizona, as well as with World Vets doing free clinics in South America.
Dr. Gretchen Yost
Dr. Yost, our spay/neuter surgeon, has been with Española Humane since 2007. She also is a frequent volunteer with World Vets in South America. As a former electrical engineer, Dr. Yost has a keen interest in data interpretation and statistical reporting.
Sabrina Terrazas
Sabrina is the shelter manager and celebrated nine years at Española Humane in June. She says it’s been a “wonderful chunk of my life and I love the change in the community I’ve been able to witness.” Her most precious gift came during her first few weeks of employment – her forever friend Mickey. She says the best part of life is sharing love, whether it’s with animals or humans, and sharing that love and laughter.
Mattie Allen
Mattie, mama of Maizie, has volunteered as a medical and neonate foster for 17 years. Mattie’s first word was “doggie” – much to the dismay of her parents since they didn’t even have a dog – so it’s no surprise that in 2018 she decided to devote her professional life to Española Humane as Director of Communications, sharing stories and photos of the furry miracles we tend to every day.
Barb Tebbel
Barb started at Española Humane in 2011 as an Animal Technician and quickly became immersed in life-saving protocols. Under the mentorship of our clinic staff and foster coordinator, she has been instrumental in helping foster families with their charges both young and old. She says she has the “best job in the world.” Outside the shelter, she enjoys her own pets, the “weed patch” of nature in her backyard, and the wonders of New Mexico.
