Author: Nicole Pitts

Our new Atlanta Animal Center is designed to increase our support of volunteer foster families, helping to ensure that animals in need have loving foster homes while they wait for their forever family.

Enhancing our support of volunteer foster families is critical for animals like Chance, who has been in our care for an extended time. Living in a foster home has allowed him to decompress away from other dogs and also helped us to treat his heartworm disease.

Our new Atlanta Animal Center will feature a separate entrance for the Foster Team that will streamline our processes and and ensure that foster parents have access to all of the supplies and assistance they need. With separate parking, office spaces for counseling, holding spaces for animals waiting to be picked up, and a dedicated exam room, the Foster Team’s processes will be much more streamlined. Increasing the number of animals in foster homes means that the Atlanta Humane Society can bring in more animals and save more lives.

In the video below, Kelly Teasley, Foster Manager at the Atlanta Humane Society, addresses how impactful the new facilities will be for our volunteer fosters.

Our new Atlanta Animal Center is designed to minimize fear and stress in shelter animals, increase our ability to provide behavior enrichment and training, and increase our support of volunteer foster families.

These improvements are critical for animals who have been in our care for an extended time. Our Atlanta Animal Center will have spaces that are separate from the public, which is especially crucial for animals that require longer stays to address critical medical and emotional needs. Because of this, we can provide deeper enrichment for behavior challenges.

As our Animal Protection Unit expands their responses to cruelty cases throughout the state of Georgia, our new Atlanta Animal Center will feature separate, longer-term housing for animals from these cases. They are often scared or shut down, so this housing will enable them to decompress and receive one-on-one behavior treatment from our Behavior Team. These dogs will have larger kennels as well as access to their own outdoor area to ensure they have a safe place to call home until they’re ready for a family of their own.

Cats in shelter environments are also quicker to become stressed and, oftentimes, this stress leads to these cats being sicker and requiring longer stays in shelter facilities. Our new Atlanta Animal Center will be built to keep cats healthy and happy until they are adopted.

In the video below, Ashley Webb, one of the Animal Training and Behavior Managers at the Atlanta Humane Society, addresses how impactful the new facilities will be for the Behavior Team.

Arthur M. Blank Family Animal Center

Grand Opening Announcement: Please join us between 12 and 4 p.m. on October 15 for our grand opening block party. Food trucks, beverages, games, and more will be available.

We’re excited to be moving to the Westside in mid-October. Our new Atlanta location, located at 1551 Perry Boulevard, will enable us to care for our community and Atlanta’s animals for decades to come.

The new building will feature walking trails, cooling splash pads for our dogs, outdoor catios for our cats, a state-of-the-art shelter medicine area, specialized area for dogs and cats in need of extra behavioral care – including those animals who our Animal Protection Unit brings in from cruelty situations, a dedicated space for our foster parents, and more. It will also house our bilingual Resource Center that focuses on connecting pet owners in our community to the resources they need to care for their pet.

And while we move out of our historic Howell Mill Road building this year, we’re looking forward to all that we’re going to be able to do for our community on this new property – just a few minutes west.

We’re thankful to the support of our community and all of those who have enabled us to get this far in building home, health, and hope through this new facility. If you’re looking to make a lasting legacy on Atlanta’s animals, you can name a tree on one of our walking trails, dedicate a kennel, place a brick on our walkways, or honor a special person or pet with one of our many room naming opportunities.

Take a look at this building with a special introduction from our President & CEO, Cal Morgan. Then, dig deeper into the impact of this building and learn how you can support the future of animal welfare in our city.