Second Chance Humane Society

Animal shelter: provide care for lost, abandoned, surrendered and homeless domestic animals in ouray, montrose and san miguel counties and the surrounding region. Programming includes medical care, spray/neutering, vaccinating, microchipping, sheltering, adoption placement, pre-adoption medical services, lost/found services, and physical and behavioral rehabilitation. An average of 400 pets are rescued annually. Community outreach and education is also based from the shelter and includes low-income community medical care and services, low income pet pantry, behavioral training, programming in local schools, a memorial garden, weekly educational pet column, and effective partnerships with numerous regionial animal welfare organizations.

Mission statement: connecting pets, people and community while saving lives. As this mission statement reflects, Second Chance believes pets and people live better together and their programming is geared toward keeping pets as healthy and happy parts of individual's and family's lives, regardless of income. As such, Second Chance operates a cage-free animal shelter while also operating a plethora of community support programs and services to promote the human-animal bond and lifelong connections with pets.

Thrift shops: all goods sold in the thrift shops are donated and all net income from the sale of these goods is applied to fund animal care and operational costs. In addition to their primary exempt purpose, they serve as an important regional center for recycling household goods and clothing that otherwise ends up in landfills.