San Diego Humane Society

San Diego Humane Society is a nonprofit, open-admission animal shelter in San Diego, California, and a national leader in animal welfare. Its mission is to create a more humane San Diego by inspiring compassion, providing hope and advancing the welfare of animals and people. The organization's innovative signature programs save thousands of lives each year and helped San Diego become the largest city in the U.S. to achieve zero euthanasia of healthy or treatable shelter animals in 2015.

San Diego Humane Society provides animal services for 14 cities in San Diego County, with campuses in San Diego, El Cajon, Escondido, Oceanside, and Ramona. It is an open-admission shelter with zero euthanasia for healthy and treatable shelter animals. Across five campuses, the organization cares for more than 40,000 pets and wildlife annually and shares their expertise with shelters nationwide.

San Diego Humane Society is a private, independent, nonprofit organization that is not affiliated with any other humane society or society for the prevention of cruelty to animals.