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Tours & Birthday Parties

We welcome tours to our shelter. Our staff feels it is important for children and adults to learn about our success and the work it takes to be a success. Tours last 25-30 minutes. You will be able to learn about our shelter and visit the adoptable cat rooms and the dog kennels. We are open from 12-7 Monday through Friday and 12 -5 on Saturdays. We are closed on Sundays. To schedule a tour, please send an email to ken.allers@cvhumane.org.

In following with our procedures and operation the following limitations are necessary:
We would love to have a birthday party for your child. Unfortunately, due to space restrictions we regret that we are unable to host birthday parties but we can provide a tour.

Tour groups are limited to 12 adults and/or children due to the size of our rooms. Strollers for the very young are not permitted. We have these rules for three reasons. First, we just do not have the room. Every available spaced is used for our mission. Second, the dogs may become over excited with too many visitors in the adoption area. Third, we do not want to interfere with customers wanting to view the dogs and/or cats.

Members of the tour are not allowed to handle or pet animals except our ambassador dog, if available. We wish we could allow the interaction. Shelter staff works hard to determine the personalities of our dogs, but we cannot risk a dog becoming unexpectedly aggressive in a group of children.

The shelter is cleaned every morning; even on holidays and during snowstorms. Therefore, we are unable accommodate a tour in the morning.

Even though we are open to 7 PM on weekdays, all tours must begin no later than 5:30 to allow our staff to start the closing procedure for the evening.

Tours for pre-school children are difficult. Due to the noise our dogs make, the children can become frightened of dogs. We do not want the young people to have a negative experience. We can schedule a visit to your pre-school to meet the children, read an appropriate book, and bring our ambassador dog who loves people of all ages.

Shelter Hours

Monday - Friday:
12:00pm - 7:00pm

Saturday:
12:00pm - 5:00pm

Sunday:
Closed

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  • Retail for all! Did you know CVHS also sells pet supplies?? Better yet-all proceeds go right back into helping out our shelter animals! Anyone can purchase, these aren’t just items for adopters. Adopters do however get a  percentage off at time of adoption! (As if you needed more incentive to get out here and adopt 😛) Some special favorites for the dogs are shown: Lambchop & several varieties of hedgehogs. For the cats? Rickie approved! She is currently seeking her furrrever home. Leashes and collars? We’ve got you covered! #cvhs sells a variety of #Martingale style collars, matching leashes too! For those that enjoy things a little on the geek side: Comic Con! #shoplocal #cedarrapidsiowa #saveashelterpet

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Cedar Valley Humane Society
7411 Mt Vernon Road SE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52403
319-362-6288



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