Our community’s need for affordable spay/neuter services has outpaced our current capacity. The Animal Care Campus will expand access to spay/neuter and veterinary services for the public, our shelter pets, and partner animal welfare organizations across western Colorado. It will improve the day-to-day experience of adopters, volunteers, fosters, and staff, and create a community gathering space that makes the shelter a place people want to be. Ultimately, it will advance our mission to promote bonds between pets and their people.

The veterinary clinic will expand access to low-cost spay/neuter, vaccination, and microchipping services to the public and to partner animal welfare agencies, as well as expand our on-site surgical abilities to treat Roice-Hurst shelter pets.

Our existing space serves many overlapping functions. Reception, offices, meeting space, adoptions, volunteers, veterinary exams, and the Pet Pantry all share one small, busy area. The Animal Care Campus untangles that and gives each function room to breathe. A reimagined entrance makes each visit more welcoming, adoptions and resource services move into dedicated spaces where conversations can happen privately and with dignity, and volunteers and fosters get a home base to stow their items, pick up supplies, and check in and out. Every program gets the space it needs to run well and contribute to our mission.

We anticipate a full opening in early summer 2026.

The projected final investment is approximately $673,656. Answering the community’s urgent call for an increase in services had to be done without delay and with the best use of donor dollars in mind. Roice-Hurst avoided the need for a lengthy capital campaign by utilizing modular units that can be quickly operational. The result is a prompt and impactful expansion of our capacity at a fraction of what new construction would have cost. Thanks to many years of strategic financial stewardship and the generosity of key stakeholders, including donors and foundations, we have raised 80% of the projected cost of the project.

Roice-Hurst is also protecting donor dollars by consolidating campuses. Currently, our team is split into two locations due to limited staff space in the shelter building. This expansion to our footprint creates enough space for our entire team to be at one location, making us more efficient and able to further our mission. Being under one roof also cuts administrative overhead.

For the last seven years, the mobile clinic has served as our only on-site surgical space, helping spay/neuter more than 3,800 pets in that time. By creating a dedicated veterinary clinic on campus, we’re finally able to use the mobile clinic the way it was always meant to be used. It will be deployed to host pop-up clinics across the region and serve as a resource during emergencies and disaster response.

The Animal Care Campus will increase spay/neuter capacity for the public, the shelter, and partner agencies, reducing unwanted litters and improving animal health across the Grand Valley. Adoptions and resource interactions will take place in dedicated spaces where people are served with privacy and dignity. A more welcoming environment is expected to increase visitors and adoptions. Volunteers and fosters will have the space and support they need, improving retention and engagement. Streamlined operations will improve efficiency across the organization. Ultimately, the Animal Care Campus will advance our mission to promote bonds between pets and their people.

Founded in 1963, Roice-Hurst Humane Society is western Colorado’s oldest pet welfare organization. Roice-Hurst provides pets with individualized medical and behavioral care and, ultimately, loving adoptive families. Through our Animal Resource Center, we also provide resources and services to keep owned pets happy, healthy, and united with the people who love them. In 2025, Roice-Hurst’s impact included 729 pets adopted, 874 spay/neuter surgeries performed on-site, 38,385 volunteer hours, 1,279 owned pets vaccinated, 1,156 Pet Pantry uses, and 1,039 nights of crisis boarding provided.

Thank you for asking! You can help us raise the remaining funds needed to complete this mission-critical facility by making a gift using the form on this page or at rhhumanesociety.org/donate. Thank you for your generosity and making a difference in the lives of our community’s pets.