What is the difference between the Humane Society and Animal Services?
The Humane Society of Greater Miami Adopt-A-Pet and the Miami-Dade Animal Services Department (“Animal Services”) are completely separate organizations. The Humane Society is a private, non-profit charitable animal welfare organization that cares for adoptable pets and provides the public with quality adoption services, low-cost spay/neuter services and extensive humane education programming for citizens of all ages. The Humane Society guarantees a second chance for the animals in its stewardship by caring for them for as long as it takes to find them loving homes. Animal Services is the government agency in Miami-Dade County that enforces county ordinances pertaining to dogs and cats. Animal Services’ main responsibilities are to help prevent and punish animal cruelty, and to protect the public by picking up stray dogs, requiring rabies vaccinations for dogs and cats, and by controlling dangerous dogs. Animal Services has a variety of loving, deserving dogs and cats available for adop
