Humane Society of North Central Florida - Gainesville, Florida

katrina D.

I need a supervisor to reach out to me. I am not speaking to Judy any longer because she is rude and entitled. I offered to come in and pay for the second foster cat after 2pm today and asked her to schedule an appointment for spay surgery at a later date. She said no, that I needed to come drop the cat in a crate and pick her up next week when I have time. I reminded her the cat is still sick so she suggested me to surrender the cat that she will take care of it, to bully me. When I still wouldn’t comply she threatened to call Animal Welfare Services to my home.
Humane Society does not care for the well being of the cats. They care for surgery so the cats don’t reproduce. The two kittens I found during the hurricane were sick. This one should not have surgery being sick, as the first one did, but Judy DOES NOT CARE. I have spent over two months with these cats in quarantine and the surgery plus the vaccines you scheduled for the same day plus the sneezing could make her be sick for longer time.

Follow up: Yes, a woman named Lauren did reach out to me. She confirmed what her associate said, I have no privilege for appointments as a foster parent for the Humane Society. As per my signature, I am expected to remain available based on your needs. Upon discovering the Humane Society had not kept documentation about the cat being sick, and an unpleasant conversation, Lauren released the kitten to me for free and emailed me the up to date vaccine history for Puddles. I’ve spent the last three months frequenting the various establishments on your property. I’m always around, I wasn’t running away. The nice response message is appreciated because a lot of the girls working here are really sweet and curious so I do believe those are your company standards but this was unnecessary.

Sonia V.

This walk in clinic is very clean and organized the Receptionists and technicians are very professional and nice. The vet, I had an Asian lady vet named Dr. Cho, I think, she was very kind, very professional, and I love that she really seemed to care about my Nash, and I even was able to get a free vaccine, since the technician said Petco has donated vaccines to them, so it is a benefit to the community to have this clinic, especially when money is tight.

Danforth S.

What a wonderful place with wonder staff and volunteers. Adopt, rescue, donate. This is one of the few places that appear to be who they say they are. I am so glad that we stumbled into all of your lives. Keep up the good and honest work. Not everything is measured by number.

***UPDATE: I thought that this place was great, this is how they get you. Both dogs have turned out to be aggressive. They have bitten my wife, they have attacked my eldest dog numerous times, and they attack each other. We have tried multiple times to try and surrender the dogs back to the humane society, like they asked! Each time, they send a generic email stating that they are unable to take the dogs back. They only reference financial needs options.

We have 5 children in this house. Am I to assume that it will require the mauling or death of a child? We now have two lethal weapons in our house. I can only speculate that they do not care about the safety of people or children. This is no different than leaving a loaded firearm within a child's reach. What does it take to protect humans? We have been training for almost a year with positive outcome, but no amount of training can remove the aggression from these animals. NEVER AGAIN!

Sarah C.

Several years ago I brought My Bully&Pitt to be spayed, the care was first rate!! I recently brought My Rhodesian Ridgeback to be neutered and the service was even BETTER than the first time!! Thank You for all You do for Our Fur-Babies!! 🐱😻🐶🐶

graham M.

I recently adopted a kitten from here Fiona (I renamed her usagi) my main issue was the fact she was freshly out of surgery and they just gave her to me her wound almost got infected. I would be happy to wait until her wound was fully healed she was in pain 24/7 but the adoption fee was cheap so that's a win win I think? (Her wound is healed now)

Lexi S.

I cannot even begin to express my gratitude to the Humane Society of North Central FL Spay/Neuter Clinic. First of all, the front desk staff are amazing. I had a pleasure of dealing with Sakif and Ian - thank you for all your help! This organization saved my 4 years old 60lb female dog.

She was used as a breeding dog before she was given to me, right after she underwent an emergency C section. The previous owners decided to give her up because she didn’t mother the puppies after the C section. She should have been spayed during that C section, but my guess they wanted to keep breeding her, and only gave her away after she wasn’t nursing the puppies.

Fast forward to 6 months later, now with me, she started spotting. At first, I figured she was beginning her heat cycle, but the spotting persisted and eventually turned into a lot of vaginal leakage and discharge, over the course of 3 weeks. That’s when I realized that it was probably an open pyometra - an infection of the uterus. I called all of the low cost clinics in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. They all either turned me away, or recommended I visited an emergency vet (which is the right thing to do because pyometra is a life threatening condition, especially when it becomes closed and causes sepsis, then death). I was quoted $1500-$5000, depending on the emergency clinic.

Then I came across Humane Society of North Central FL Spay/Neuter Clinic. I live about 3 hours away. They were the only clinic willing to spay my dog, and thank goodness, at their reasonable price (listed on their website). Available appointment dates are generated every Monday, that’s the best time to schedule, although if you’re checking the website daily, multiple times, you might see an availability due to cancellation.

The process is simple. You schedule the appointment, the clinic calls you to confirm, you pay the morning of the surgery, and pick up your pet in the afternoon. Medication is given upon pet pickup and pet leaves in a cone. Proof of rabies is required, or a rabies vaccine is given.

All of the staff, the vet, the front office people - the whole team is truly amazing! THANK YOU for everything that you do! Thank you for saving my dog.

rowan W.

This is a review regarding the spay-neuter clinic offered by the Humane Society of North Central Florida. We brought our 2-year-old tomcat in for sterilization. The staff are very friendly and welcoming. We had no trouble at all navigating the process. As long as you follow the instructions e-mailed to you upon booking your appointment, you will be fine. Follow the set pick-up and drop-off times. The vet staff were communicative upon pick-up of any complications or issues. Our cat had virtually none apart from nausea, which was medicated. He is recovering at home, now. I highly recommend this clinic for quick and affordable routine veterinary care. It is a high volume clinic, so there will not be any "red carpet treatment" (e.g., pre-op bloodwork or physicals), but generally most young and healthy cats do not require this workup. The vet staff are experienced and efficient. Thank you.

Michele S.

I’ve fostered dogs for the Humane Society of North Central Florida for a little over three years. The foster team is professional, responsive, friendly, and committed to the organization’s mission. After 50+ years of working in private and public organizations, I feel confident saying that this shelter exemplifies positive teamwork. The staff are dedicated to animal welfare, and everything they do shows it. Shoutout especially to foster coordinators Judy and Valentina — sometimes I wonder if I keep fostering just to hang out with them —and to the shelter’s director, Chelsea, who goes above and beyond for the animals and for staff.