PAWS San Diego provided essential pet services and support to low-income seniors, chronically ill and disabled individuals.
After merging, this vital community service kept its name and became the official safety net program of San Diego Humane Society.
In winter of that year, San Diego Humane Society opened the Pilar & Chuck Bahde Center for Shelter Medicine – the first of its kind in California.
The former Fund for Animals Wildlife Center in Ramona had been part of the Humane Society of the United States for more than two decades.
October 2020 San Diego Humane Society opened the El Cajon Campus, taking over the management of the El Cajon Animal Shelter — marking the first time in our 140-year history to have a shelter presence in East County.
At this fifth campus, SDHS shelters and cares for animals in El Cajon, La Mesa and Santee.
Additionally, Humane Law Enforcement provides dispatch and field services for El Cajon seven days a week.
AB 2152, written by California State Assemblymember Todd Gloria (D-San Diego), puts an end to a supply of animals who have been bred and raised in unhealthy and inhumane conditions in out-of-state puppy mills.
San Diego Humane Society is a private, nonprofit organization that is funded through a combination of contract funding from cities for which they provide animal services, philanthropic contributions, grants, bequests, investments, and fees for services (e.g. adoption fees).
They have jurisdictional authority anywhere in the State of California, however their primary area of responsibility is the County of San Diego.
Officers are issued TASER devices, collapsible baton, and OC Spray as defensive weapons.
Not only can San Diego Humane Society Officers issue citations, make arrests, file criminal charges and serve warrants, they also respond and rescue animals in disaster situations in San Diego and surrounding areas with the assistance of the Humane Society’s 24-hour volunteer-operated Emergency Response Team.