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Are you a beer enthusiast with a heart for animals in need? If so, mark your calendars because Berkeley Humane is gearing up for its 10th Anniversary Pints for Paws Beer Festival, which you won’t want to miss! Celebrating a Decade of Love and Suds On June 1, 2024, from 2 pm to 5 pm (with a special 1-hour early entrance for VIP ticket holders),
Clyde and Mr. Cuddles, two distinguished and beautiful tuxedo cats, were living great lives until one day everything changed. Throughout the year, we receive calls not from the pet owners, but from the families of those pet owners who are dealing with their incapacity or death. These family members are struggling to find new homes for the pets displaced by the loss of their owner.
On January 5, 2023, Kalia arrived on the first flight of the new year from Hawai’i as a great candidate for our Aloha Dog project. With little chance of getting adopted at an overcrowded municipal island shelter, we were confident she would be welcomed quickly into a new loving family here on the mainland. Kalia was an alert four-year-old who loved every dog and person
At just seven-months-old, Dream was a sweet, cuddly, and playful kitten, despite her battle against a progressive and painful eye infection that would take her sight. Dream was transferred into our care with severely scarred and ulcerated eyes that were no longer responding to treatment. As her health quickly deteriorated, our medical team jumped into action to perform a double enucleation surgery—the only way to
Contact: Emily MurphyDirector of Development & Communications Berkeley Humane emurphy@berkeleyhumane.org 510-845-7735 ext. 211 Over 30 Craft Breweries to Support Shelter Animals at Award-Winning East Bay Beer Festival BERKELEY, Calif. – In honor of the upcoming National Beer Day, Berkeley Humane has announced tickets are now on sale for Pints for Paws, 10th Anniversary craft beer festival. Voted Best Fundraising Event in the East Bay for several years running, Pints for Paws
To help Berkeley Humane community members protect their pets — and all they love — we’ve partnered with FreeWill. Their free estate planning resource guides you through writing your will and creating other important estate planning documents, all in as little as 20 minutes.
Berkeley, Calif.— Berkeley Humane is hosting its first ever Halloween adoption event where the tricks look a lot like “sit, stay, and bark” and the treats all taste like bacon. The aPAWcalypse, a fee-waived adoption event, will take place at 2700 Ninth Street on Saturday, October 28, 2023, 10 AM – 2 PM. “There is nothing spooky or frightening about bringing home a new loving
The Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society (Berkeley Humane) is offering an entire day of free virtual presentations to celebrate the relationship we have with our dogs. From the joys and benefits of dog training, to working with fearful and reactive dogs, to preventative health care, or delving into the process of grieving a pet loss, there’s something for everyone on Sunday, October 22, 2023. “Our dogs
WHO & WHAT: In the wake of the Maui wildfires, Berkeley Humane joins Greater Good Charities in partnership with Ameriflight to transport more than 40 Maui shelter dogs (33) and cats (11) to the Bay Area to find forever homes. This emergency flight is part of a larger effort, led by Greater Good Charities, that delivered humanitarian supplies to the people of Maui and airlifted more than 130
Berkeley Humane recently joined with two other organizations to relocate eighteen dogs that were living inside a small trailer outside Reno, Nevada
