Have a Heart for Animals | Medicine Hat SPCA

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The Medicine Hat SPCA loves our pets! Help support us by attending our special events and activities. Keep an eye on what's coming next by clicking READ MORE below.

Extreme Shelter Makeover

We have a plan! It is time to renovate! Read all about our Extreme Shelter Makeover Campaign, and find out how you can help!

Adoption

The animals at the Medicine Hat SPCA need your love! We are always actively seeking families to adopt our animals, and give them the life that they deserve.

Donate

It's costs us over $700,000 a year to care for the animals in our shelter. Donate today, and support the hundreds of animals we care for each and every year!

Donate

Protect!

Your help is an integral component to keeping the Medicine Hat SPCA's doors open. The shelter relies on private funding. Please help support our worthy cause.

Find your new best friend

The Medicine Hat SPCA is dedicated to helping you find your new best friend!

Temporary Hours for your Safety

Current Operating Hours

Due to COVID-19 our current hours of operation have changed.

Please note that we are no longer open to the public as we are social distancing to protect our animals, staff and public.

Pet adoptions and relinquishments are ongoing and can be made through appointment only.

For more information please contact 403-526-7722.

Our Values

Integrity

Exemplifying honesty, trust and transparency

Respect

Interacting with empathy, compassion and dignity

Professionalism

Demonstrating ethics, fairness, responsibility and accountability

Sustainability

Organizational alignment, fiscal responsibility, careful stewardship

Education

Advocacy for responsible pet ownership, humane treatment and overpopulation

A Day in the Life at the Shelter

This is a documentary style video that Randy Feere of RJF Productions did such a great job of putting together in an educational and entertaining way!

A special thank you to Steve Krysak of 102.1 CJCY who has always jumped on board to help the Medicine Hat SPCA in any way he can.

The mission of the Medicine Hat Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is to provide protective care for sick, injured, homeless and unwanted animals and to promote humane attitudes and responsible pet ownership.

To accomplish this, there must be acceptance that humans are responsible for the welfare of animals; and there must be an understanding of the physical and behavioral needs of animals.

The Medicine Hat SPCA is a no-kill animal shelter - which means that we do not kill healthy or treatable animals even when the shelter is full, reserving humane euthanasia for terminally ill animals or those considered dangerous to public safety.

Vision Statement:

The Medicine Hat Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is guided by a humane ethic to build a community that universally values animals, understands their needs, and takes action to meet them.

Goals

The Medicine Hat SPCA serves the community and surrounding area by:

To have an open door policy, no animal is turned away at any time.
To provide humane care and shelter for all homeless animals
To place adoptable pets in forever homes.
To promote spaying and neutering for all companion animals.
To promote responsible pet ownership and the respect for all life through humane education.
To protect all animals from inhumane treatment.
To speak out for those that cannot speak for themselves.