About Us

Our Mission

OUR MISSION:

The mission of the Santa Maria Valley Humane Society is to provide quality, compassionate care for animals, address animal overpopulation, and enhance the human and animal bond.

The Santa Maria Valley Humane Society (SMVHS) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that was founded in 1982, operates out of Santa Maria, and provides its services to the local community, including a No Kill Adoption Program and Low-cost Spay/Neuter Clinic. Originally an all volunteer-run organization without an operating shelter, SMVHS has since built a permanent facility and added paid staff in order to address the growing need to care for the adoptable animals and tackle northern Santa Barbara County's rising animal overpopulation crisis. Responding to the tremendous need to supply the public with affordable spay/neuter services, SMVHS operned its low-cost clinic in 1998, and it remains as the only permanent low-cost spay/neuter clinic available to the public between Buellton and Monterey. The clinic provides the community with affordable discounted sterilization surgeries for public residents' pets five days per week, ensure that 100% of our adoptable animals are spayed/neutered, and works with feral cat rescue organizations to reduce the number of future feral kittens. Our new, larger facility was built to accommodate the area's expanding human and animal populations and will give us significantly more resources and space to house adoptable animals and spay/neuter public animals. To date, the SMVHS Adoption Program has adopted over 10,000 animals to loving homes and the Low-cost Spay/Neuter Clinic has spayed/neutered over 27,000 animals! As our organization grows, we will have the ability to greatly increase the services we provide to the public and animals.