The Michigan Humane is a private, non-profit organization providing animal welfare and sheltering services to the metropolitan Detroit area.
Animals that come to MHS are evaluated for health and temperament led by nationally renowned experts in the fields of pet behavioral science and over a dozen highly trained veterinarians, and if found to be able to be placed into a new home, will go up for adoption.
Some critics of Michigan Humane use alternative methods to define a shelter's save rate which reject the standardized Asilomar definitions.
In 2010, 85 percent of all animals euthanized at Michigan Humane were unhealthy or untreatable based on their medical condition or temperament as defined by the Asilomar Accords and thus could not be placed into homes.
In 2014, Michigan Humane started construction on a new and enlarged $15.5 million animal care campus on more than 4-acres, that will include a 35,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility, located just east of New Center, an area of Detroit, at 7887 Chrysler Drive near Clay Street.
[5] Phillips, who called for an independent audit of MHS' shelter practices, is quoted as saying, "What I signed on for was to protect and preserve the rights of animals.
A federal lawsuit was filed in September by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Detroit and Planet Aid against a Texas company, American Textile Recycling Services (ATRS).