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Cascade Humane SocietyANIMAL SHELTER · CEDARBROOK (425) 555-0142
Cascade Humane Society · Cedarbrook

Every animal deserves a couch to call home.

We rescue, heal, and rehome dogs, cats, and small animals across the Cedarbrook valley — and we run on adoptions, donations, and neighbors like you.

Meet the animalsDonate today

Cedarbrook, WA · Caring since 1998 · Registered nonprofit — every dollar stays with the animals
A Cascade volunteer kneeling beside a happy dog in the adoption center
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adoptions so far this year
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animals in our care today
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happy tails since 1998
Adopt

Meet your new best friend

Every animal below is real-time inventory on the live site — search, filter, and fall in love. Each profile carries their story, their quirks, and exactly what their adoption includes: spay or neuter, vaccinations, a microchip, and a first vet visit on us.

How adoption works

Three steps to a fuller couch

STEP ONE

Find your match

Browse the animals above, save your favorites with the heart, and open a profile to read their whole story — the good, the goofy, and the honest fine print.

STEP TWO

Apply in ten minutes

One application covers every animal. Tell us about your home and your life; a counselor (a human, not a robot) reviews it within two business days.

STEP THREE

Meet, then home

Come in for a meet-and-greet — bring the whole household, dogs included. Most adoptions go home the same day, with two weeks of follow-up support from us.

Adoption application

Apply to adopt

One application, every animal. Applying never obligates you — it starts a conversation with a counselor about the right fit.

Demonstration form — submitting shows you exactly what an applicant sees. Nothing is sent or stored.

Volunteer & foster

Give time. It’s the gift they feel most.

Ninety-six neighbors keep Cascade running — walking dogs, socializing shy cats, fostering kittens in spare rooms. Pick a shift below and sign up; or choose fostering and we’ll match you with a temporary guest.

No shift picked yet — tap any open shift above and it lands in your sign-up.

Demonstration form — nothing is sent or stored. On the live site, our volunteer coordinator replies within two business days.

Events

Come meet us out in the wild

SATURDAYS · 10 AM – 2 PM

Adoption Day at the Shelter

Every Saturday the play yard opens, the coffee comes out, and every adoptable dog takes a turn showing off. Same-day adoptions, counselors on the grass, no appointment needed.

214 neighbors coming
SUNDAY · 11 AM – 1 PM

Kitten Shower & Foster Fair

Kitten season is coming and we need laps. Meet current fosters, cuddle the nursery crew (gloves provided), and learn how fostering works — supplies and support are all on us.

86 neighbors coming
FRIDAY EVENING · 6 PM

Paws on the Green Fundraiser

Our biggest night of the year: a family picnic on the shelter green with local food carts, a silent auction, and the famous alumni dog parade. Every dollar raised funds the medical wing.

342 neighbors coming
Take action · Advocacy

Your voice is a leash that pulls policy

Laws decide how many animals a community can save. The Cascade Action Team is 4,300 neighbors who get one short email when a vote, a hearing, or a budget line needs animal people in the room.

Join the Cascade Action Team

One email when it matters — never more than two a month — with the exact words to say and the exact office to say them to. Unsubscribe any time; the animals understand.

Fund the Cedarbrook spay & neuter clinic

The county budget vote is next month. A dedicated clinic would fix 3,000 more animals a year — the single most effective way to keep kittens out of shelters in the first place. Add your name to the letter we hand the council.

1,204 neighbors have signed

Pledge: community cats stay

Trap-neuter-return works: Cedarbrook’s community cat colonies shrank by a third in three years without a single shelter stay. Pledge to support TNR and to call us — not animal control — when a new ear-tipped cat appears on your street.

862 pledges so far

Happy tails

Where are they now?

Two dogs playing together in the Cascade play yard
Noodle, adopted after 112 days

Oliver the senior cat and Noodle the kitten went home together — an unlikely pair who had decided, over three months of neighboring kennels, that they were a package deal. Their adopter agreed. Reports say the couch has been fully surrendered.

— The Alvarado family, Cedarbrook
Maple, from terrified to trail dog

Maple arrived too frightened to walk through a doorway. Ninety days of patient foster care — and one very boring, very safe hallway — later, she hiked her first summit with her new person this spring. Some dogs don’t need fixing. They need time, and someone to give it.

— Fostered by Dana W., adopted by Priya S.
Pet-care resources

Helpful answers, written by our own team

The same plain-English guides our counselors hand out at the shelter — free for everyone, adopter or not.

Your first week with a new cat

Start small: one quiet room with a litter box, water, a scratching post, and a hiding spot that is allowed to stay a hiding spot. Let the cat choose the pace — sitting on the floor reading aloud does more than any toy.

Keep food, litter, and routine identical to what they had here for the first few days, then change one thing at a time. Most cats claim the whole house within two weeks; shy ones take longer, and that is fine.

House-training, the kind way

Dogs learn where to go by schedule, not by scolding: out first thing, after meals, after play, and before bed. Reward the outdoor success like it won the lottery — because to your dog, your joy is the lottery.

Accidents mean the schedule needs tightening, never punishment. Clean with an enzyme cleaner, shorten the gaps, and expect a young dog to need three to four weeks of consistency before it clicks.

Introducing a new dog to your cat

Trade scents before faces: swap blankets for a few days. Then let them see each other through a baby gate with treats on both sides, in sessions of five unhurried minutes.

The cat must always have an exit and a high place. Most households find a truce inside a month — and a surprising number end up with a shared sunbeam.

Caring for a senior pet

Twice-yearly vet visits catch the quiet things early: kidneys, thyroid, teeth. At home, the kindnesses are small and cheap — a ramp beside the bed, rugs on slippery floors, food and water raised to elbow height.

Senior animals are this shelter’s best-kept secret: house-trained, past the chaos, and profoundly grateful. Their adoption fees are our lowest on purpose.

Thinking of surrendering a pet? Talk to us first.

Many surrenders are really solvable problems wearing a scary costume: a landlord letter, a behavior flare-up, a vet bill at the wrong moment. Our help desk offers free behavior consults, a pet-food pantry, and short-term boarding for families in crisis. Call (425) 555-0142 — keeping a pet home is always our first choice.

About · Transparency

Open books, because trust is the whole business

Cascade Humane Society is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, governed by a volunteer board, audited independently every year. In fiscal 2025 we saved 94 of every 100 animals who came through our doors — the remaining few were suffering beyond what medicine could answer, and they were not alone at the end.

Programs — animal care, medical, adoptions, foster & community help84¢ of every $1
Operations & administration9¢
Fundraising7¢
$2.41Msupport & revenue, fiscal 2025
94%save rate across all species, 2025
3,860animals served in 2025
23partner shelters in the Cascade Network

Documents & accountability

Form 990 (fiscal 2025) — demonstration document row. On the live site, the last three years of 990 filings download here as PDFs.

Annual report 2025 — demonstration document row. Stories, outcomes, and the audited statements, bound together.

Independent ratings — badge area reserved for charity-rating services. Placeholder badges for this demonstration; no real rating is claimed.

Demonstration figures: Cascade Humane Society is a fictional organization created for this example website. Every number, document, and figure in this section is illustrative demonstration data — not audited financials of a real charity.

Built to bring in business

What a custom platform does that a template can’t

This page is a fully custom Tarsus build. Beside our one-day template sites, this is the deep end — the systems a mission runs on:

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A living animal inventory

Searchable, filterable pet records in the shape of real shelter-inventory systems — ID, intake date, medical and behavior notes, kennel — so the right animal meets the right home faster.

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Applications that start themselves

Every profile’s Apply button opens the application with that animal already chosen — fewer clicks, fewer abandoned forms, more meet-and-greets.

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A complete giving ecosystem

Monthly-first donating, tribute gifts with e-cards, employer matching, cover-the-fees, sponsorships, and every other way donors actually give — one widget, no dead ends.

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Volunteers who schedule themselves

Role-based shifts with real capacity states — open, waitlist, full — and a sign-up that lands in the coordinator’s lap, not a voicemail box.

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Proof, presented like the majors

Animated impact counters, an open-books transparency section with the spend split as data, and happy-tail stories — the trust stack that turns visitors into donors.

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An action center, not a newsletter

Petitions, pledges, and an advocacy team signup that grows the one asset money can’t buy: people who show up when animals need a law changed.

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