The Intermountain Way

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Intermountain Humane Society is committed to serving our intermountain community by providing socially conscious animal sheltering, animal welfare education and advocacy, and to be the community’s leading resource for animal welfare, working to improve the lives of people and their pets.

We are a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.

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Community Focused | Socially Conscious | Progressive | Professional | Impactful

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Announcing Exciting News for the future of IMHS!

 

Exciting Changes Ahead for IMHS!

As many of you may have heard, IMHS is preparing for an exciting transition: we plan to relocate to a new, state-of-the-art facility at the Conifer Planned Pethood, International clinic by the end of the year 2024. This move represents a significant step forward in our mission to provide top-quality care for animals in need.

Dr. Jeff is already hard at work designing heated indoor/outdoor runs for our dogs and creating a cutting-edge cat room inspired by the European model of excellence in shelter environments. These improvements will ensure that the animals in our care receive the best possible support for their mental and physical well-being.

While this transition is underway, we are temporarily pausing intake of new animals. However, our commitment to the community remains unwavering. We will continue:

• Posting animals on our social media to help them find homes.

• Donating food and supporting our community food pantry.

• Hosting events like our Sundays at King Soopers.

We still need our amazing volunteers during this transition and beyond. The new location offers exciting opportunities: imagine walking dogs in a beautiful wooded area instead of along a dirt road! We also hope our dedicated staff and supporters will join us at Conifer to continue advancing our mission.

This move will not only enhance the care we provide to shelter animals but also allow us to expand services like low-cost veterinary care without compromising on quality.

Thank you for your continued support as we enter this exciting new chapter. Together, we can create an even brighter future for the animals and communities we serve!

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The shelter is closing at its current location on December 21st, 2024.There is no timeline for the new shelter at this time due to permitting and licensing. We will update as information becomes available. 

 

We're working hard to be the best little shelter in the Universe! 

 

We are passionate about advocating for animals in need and placing them with the very best families; together along with our community, we’ve accomplished so much!  Our vision is to be the leading resource for dogs, cats, and pet stewards in Park County and the surrounding mountain communities. 

 

At Intermountain Humane Society, we serve, educate and inspire our intermountain community to advance the welfare of animals, elevate their value in society, and improve peoples lives through the unique benefits that only pets can provide.  We work to safeguard, rescue, shelter, rehabilitate, adopt out, and advocate for animals in need. We serve both animals and people by offering programs that promote animal health and responsible pet-stewardship that fosters compassion and improves the animal-human bond.

 

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We are proud that we are a PACFA-licensed sheltering facility! 

 

We work hard to maintain our certification through Colorado's Department of Agriculture, Pet Animal Care Facilities Act (PACFA), not all facilities receive this award, it means the pets you adopt from us, have received the highest level of care possible.

 

PACFA “is a model program for states across the country and is dedicated to protecting the health and well-being of those animals in pet care facilities. PACFA is committed to making sure that pet care facilities meet, or exceed, minimum standards for physical facilities; sanitation; ventilation; lighting; heating; cooling; humidity; spatial and enclosure requirements; nutrition; humane care; medical treatment; methods of operation and record-keeping.”

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Our History:

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We're not new kids on the block, we've been at this for a long time, we know how to achieve excellence. 

 

Intermountain Humane Society was first incorporated in 1982. Our “grass-roots” organization arose from a community response to the closure of Park County’s Animal Control Department in 1981.  Greg and M.C. Johnson were the driving force behind this effort to provide some means of dealing with animal issues in the county which, at that time, had neither a shelter nor animal control officers.

 

From 1982 until 2002, IMHS operated solely as a rescue organization. There was no permanent shelter facility, so foster homes and a local vet clinic were used to house and care for homeless pets. In 2002 IMHS opened a small shelter facility (our current location in Pine Junction). In addition, we continued to provide foster homes for some of our resident animals.

 

IMHS’s service area of Park County and southwest Jefferson County, Colorado encompasses 2,300 square miles, yet our efforts to promote the human-animal bond reach much farther.  Certainly, we provide shelter and assistance to homeless pets in our local area.  We also network with metro Denver and other Colorado shelters, taking in transfers when we have available space.  Since late 2008, IMHS has participated in rescue efforts in Kansas and New Mexico, taking homeless pets out of desperate situations and bringing them into the IMHS shelter.  Our adopters aren’t geographically limited, either: thanks to the internet, IMHS shelter pets go to their forever homes in Colorado Springs and Cheyenne as often they do to Bailey and Pine.   

 

Throughout our existence, Intermountain Humane Society has depended entirely upon voluntary donations made by individuals and businesses in the communities we serve; we also benefit from grant monies and donations from philanthropic foundations.  Unlike other shelters in our area, IMHS receives no governmental support.

 

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