Walk for Animals 2025

Our Walk for Animals website is live- time to sign up to help animals! This is our biggest fundraiser of the year, and your chance to raise vital funds to help so many needy dogs, cats and smallies. Every dollar raised will give shelter pets a warm safe place to go, the extraordinary care they need, and a chance for a new loving home. YOU can make a difference for animals in Vermont!
 
Join us on Saturday, June 7, 2025 on the State House Lawn for our free public event. We will have lots of fun activities, details will be posted on our Walk website. Join us, and hundreds of Vermonters, to celebrate our love of animals and help save the lives of hundreds of shelter pets. They need you! 
 
Will you join the pack, and inspire others to help make a difference for animals? Register today – Thank you!
 

 

Want to sponsor the event and/or have a booth at the event, click here! As a sponsor or vendor you’ll have the opportunity to promote your business and talk directly with guests about the services you offer. An invaluable opportunity! Due to State House lawn rules, no money can be exchanged on the lawn

HUGE thanks go to our Top Dog Sponsors, 802 Cars (802 Subaru, 802 Honda and 802 Toyota all in Berlin), and One Stop Country Pet Supply (in Barre) who have been loyal friends of CVHS in so many ways and are truly Top Dogs in our book! And special thanks go to our Cat’s Meow sponsors, National Life Group Foundation, North Country Federal Credit Union, and Onion River Animal Hospital for their continued support. Please visit our website to see all our sponsors, who have contributed nearly $40,000 to our Walk.

There are so many nonprofits in VT who are doing great work. We truly appreciate that these local businesses make the choice to support CVHS, so please support them. Tell them CVHS sent you!

Last year’s event was a blast — From our various vendors (event sponsors), pet trivia, reading time with the Kellogg Hubbard Library, our pet trick contest and costume contest, and family friendly crafts, everyone had a great time – humans and pets! With the help of 34 local businesses, plus peer-to-peer fundraisers and individual donors, we raised over $78,800 for animals at CVHS. Join our 2025 Walk and you can be a part of this special celebration! 

Last year’s Walk was so much fun- here are some photos-

Sign up for May 10 Foster Orientation

Interested in helping to save animals by fostering animals for CVHS? Do you have room, time, and TLC to provide for animals in need, for a temporary period of time? Come to our Foster Care Orientation to learn all about how you can help. This is a great opportunity for those who want to help animals but cannot adopt!

Primarily, we need fosters for cats and kittens once the warmer weather hits during what we call “kitten season.” Things have not started up in earnest yet, but want to be prepared! Cats and their kittens remain in foster care until they are ready for adoption at the adoption center.

We do occasionally need dog fosters or puppy fosters as well. Dog fosters would primarily be for a dog recovering from a surgery, or puppies waiting to be big enough to be spayed/neutered and adopted into new homes.

One of the many things you’ll learn at orientation is CVHS provides all the supplies and support for our animals while they remain in their designated foster homes.

Our Foster Care Orientation will be May 10th, from 9:30a-11:30am at CVHS Adoption Center (1589 Vermont Rte 14S). To sign up to attend orientation, please email foster@centralvermonthumane.org to get the forms and confirm you’re on the roster for orientation!

 
 
 

 

Kitten Supply Drive

The kittens are coming…soon! Every year around this time it happens, the weather warms up and momma cats start having kittens. Lots of kittens. No kittens yet but we know they are coming. During “kitten season” we typically care for over 200 kittens. That is a lot of mouths to feed!

Our friends at One Stop Country Pet Supply in Barre are hosting a kitten supply drive for us and key kitten products are a whopping 30% off, and they will deliver it to us for free! Help us prepare for kitten season, get 30% off, and bonus, support a local business who loves local animals!

IMPORTANT- be sure you are shopping at the right store- at the top left of their website it says which store. Make sure it says Barre.

Once you choose your items and go to Cart, put “CVHS” in the First Name box for who will pick it up, and your order will be delivered to CVHS.

Kitten Mile Replacer (KMR) : This is what we feed tiny kittens with no momma, KMR is literally a lifesaver!

Hand Feeding Syringes: What we use to feed KMR

Kitty Litter: No explanation needed, we go through a lot of litter!

Kitten Food: Chicken and Pumpkin

Kitten Food: Chicken and Salmon

Kitten Food: Chicken and Gravy

We do not have any kittens yet, if you’d like to adopt please get your name on our kitten wait list: Fill out our adopter form which you can find here: https://centralvermonthumane.org/adoption-process/ and email it to  [email protected]  Everything is done by appointment.

If you would like to foster, and help raise adorable kittens, email our foster program to get established with us. [email protected].
 

Thank you for supporting Central Vermont Humane Society and our local partner One Stop Country Pet Supply!

We are looking for people to join our active and focused Board of Directors (BOD), who generously volunteer their time to work in partnership with key staff to provide fiduciary oversight, strategic direction, fundraising assistance, and expertise to CVHS. The BOD meets every other month, with committee meetings in between.

Members of our BOD are expected to attend the majority of meetings, serve on at least one committee (current committees are Governance, Donor Stewardship/Development, and Finance), support CVHS events like our Walk for Animals and Fur Fest, and be engaged, active participants. In particular we are looking for expertise in Human Resources, legal, fundraising, or community engagement, and we are open to all applicants.

Board Member Job Description

Board Committee Descriptions

Our Mission

Our Strategic Plan

For more information,  please email [email protected] and put “BOD inquiry” in the Subject Line.

Become a Faithful Friend

DONATE MONTHLY TO SAVE MORE LIVES!

For a limited time, as a thank you gift, the first eight people who sign up to be a NEW Faithful Friend at $25 or more a month will receive a gorgeous bag, donated via a grant whose goal is to increase donations! (Offer valid only for NEW Faithful Friends)

Every day, needy animals rely on Central Vermont Humane Society – for food, shelter and medical care – and to find new loving homes. A core group of very loyal friends to the animals at CVHS make the commitment to be a monthly donor, providing an important, reliable stream of income that CVHS can rely on to save animals – every day.

Pets like Lily, a tiny kitten who started having bloody diarrhea and losing weight. Kittens as young as Lily are extremely fragile- when they are sick, they need to see a vet without delay. We immediately had Lily looked at by our vet, who discovered she was anemic. She felt much better after receiving medication,  When Lily was old enough, we adopted her into a loving home.

That is the power of our Faithful Friends- Reliable support that makes it possible for us to help pets like Lily without delay.

Please join this group of important supporters and help provide the steadiness and reliability that is so important to save animals. 


 

Benefits of being a Faithful Friend:

  • You will receive one thank you letter at the end of the year that details all your gifts for that year including amounts, date of gift, and whether it was a check, cash or an online donation.
  • Four times a year, we will send you a set of heartwarming stories of pets you have helped.
  • We will send you a CVHS euro sticker to put on your car, laptop, coffee mug, anywhere to let people know you support the animals!
  • It is convenient and easy to set up an automatic monthly donation using your credit card – either online via our website or by calling our office. Or set up direct payment from your bank account and avoid credit card fees so that 100% of your gift goes to CVHS.
  • Spreading out your giving throughout the year is budget-friendly and many people find this enables them to give more than when they make a single gift once a year.
  • It is flexible, you can make changes at any time. If your monthly gift is by credit card, just contact our office to update your gift amount or credit card information (including new expiration dates or card numbers).
  • Greater impact through steady support – Know that you are providing continuous and steady support to help animals every day, as soon as they need it.

We’re happy to answer questions and help you get started. Contact Terri at [email protected].

 

“Monthly giving is easier for us and provides money that CVHS can depend on to keep saving animals.”  – Mike and Lisa, Faithful Friend Monthly Donors

 

**If you prefer to mail a check each month, please write Faithful Friend in the memo line so we know you are a regular monthly donor. Then you will be included in receiving all quarterly newsletters about the animals you are helping. Mail to Central Vermont Humane Society, 1589 VT Rte 14S, East Montpelier, VT 05651. Thank you!

Pet Memorials

We see the love people have for their pets every day.  Pets fill our lives with joy, laughter, and unconditional love.  And when we lose them, the loss can be unbearable.  NEW- you can make a gift in honor of a beloved pet’s memory and we will send a Pet Memorial E-card to the person of your choice to let them know you are thinking of them.

Make a gift in memory of a beloved pet and send an E-card

We have also created a way for you to memorialize your pet with a page on our website that includes photos and stories, honoring the memory of our furry friends. See our Pet Memorial page here. So much love for our furry friends!

Please send in your stories of your cherished pets, and we will honor their memory on our memorial page. Submit your story here: https://centralvermonthumane.org/submit-your-petmemorial/

One of our favorite quotes is from Agnes Sligh Turnbull: “Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.”  This applies to all pets — our time with them is much too short.

A perfect gift- Sponsor a Pet

Need an amazing gift for someone?  Sponsor a homeless pet!  A meaningful and heartwarming gift that will save animals at CVHS.  Sponsoring a pet is easy- go to our our adoption pages (which are updated in real time), choose a pet you would like to sponsor, and click on “Sponsor Me” under their description. To give as a gift, you will receive an email confirmation that includes a note you can send to your gift recipient telling them you sponsored a pet in their name.  Gift or not, sponsoring a pet is a great way to help animals who are in CVHS care while we help them find loving homes.

The animals at CVHS thank you so much!

Choose a pet on one of our Adoption pages below, or donate now

Adoptable Dogs page

Adoptable Cats page

Adoptable Critters page

Sign up for Dog Training

Did you know CVHS offers a range of dog training?  At CVHS, dog training is a positive, fun experience for both humans and dogs. Our trainers – Kasandra Fleury, Bill Grant – are knowledgeable, qualified, kind, and just plain fun to be around!  You and your dog(s) will have a dog-gone good time!

Our training classes are usually held in our training room in the basement. 

More information about our dog training programs:

Upcoming Class Schedules

Classes Currently in Session

Class Descriptions

Trainer Bios

1 2