Humane Society of South Mississippi

The mission of the Humane Society of South Mississippi is to advocate the bond between animals and humans, provide the highest quality services and compassion to the animals entrusted to our care, reduce companion animal overpopulation, and increase the save-rate of animals in our community. HSSM is a progressive open-admission shelter, which takes in about 12,000 homeless pets each year. In addition to housing the homeless, HSSM provides 10,000 spay/neuter surgeries through our Louise Fenner Claiborne Spay Neuter Clinic, and microchips countless others through our outreach efforts. HSSM's Board of Directors adopted an initiative, entitled Countdown to Zero, to end the euthanasia of healthy and treatable pets in our community by 2015.

HSSM employs an open adoptions process. Adopters are welcome to visit the shelter anytime during business hours to view the adoptable animals and HSSM has Adoption Counselors on hand to assist in making good matches. Our adoption fees for cats over 6 months is "Pick-Your-Purr-ice" (adopters are asked to make a donation in any amount of their choosing plus a $5 tag fee), cats under 6 months are $40. Dog adoption fees range from $50 to $150 depending on the adoptability of the animal.