I have had dealings with Popcorn Park AHS for 20 years. The workers and techs have always been polite, caring, and professional often going out of their way to do whatever is needed to aide all of these beautiful animals. My girl, Makai was barking up a storm when we visited, but a young lady named Beth talked us into giving her a chance. Makai, who recently passed was the best dog I ever had in my 61 year long life. Everyone who ever met her thought the same way about her. She was that special. Thank you, Beth for convincing us about how Makai was one of a kind. We miss her every day.We also got our little guy, Thor from Popcorn Park. Not perfect, but we love him anyway.
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- 124 Evergreen Ave Newark NJ 07114 USA
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I have had dealings with Popcorn Park AHS for 20 years. The workers and techs have always been polite, caring, and professional often going out of their way to do whatever is needed to aide all of these beautiful animals. My girl, Makai was barking up a storm when we
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Animal Protection & Welfare, Animals
Mission: Associated humane societies, (ahs), is the largest animal sheltering organization in new jersey and is also home to popcorn park, located at our ahs-lacey branch. Popcorn park was established in 1977 and is a sanctuary for abused, neglected, and/or abandoned animals of all breeds and sizes, including wildlife, farm animals, and exotic animals. Our three animal shelter facilities located in newark, tinton falls, and forked river, provide animal control services to more towns than any animal shelter in the state. We are an open door facility and do not turn away any animal regardless of their age, breed, or medical/emotional issues. We pride ourselves on the high level of care that we provide to the hundreds of animals that call our facility home while they are awaiting adoption. We have full-service veterinary clinics that are open to the public and provide our communities with top-notch, professional veterinary services for personal pets, and also operate a mobile veterinary unit that
Programs: Shelter facilities - the associated humane societies, (ahs), strongly believes that wild animals should live free and uncaged. Popcorn park located at our ahs-lacey facility was established in 1977 for the sole purpose of providing a refuge to sick, injured, permanently disabled, abandoned, elderly, and un-releasable wildlife, farm animals, and exotic animals that would be unable to survive on their own. Popcorn park takes in animals from all over the world such as a three-legged fox from kuwait, a blind bengal tiger from a maryland zoo, and patas monkeys from a research lab, to name a few. Popcorn park is a federally licensed zoo that is home to strictly rescued animals. No animal is ever purchased or bred. Every animal that comes to popcorn park is housed in a habitat that is specifically designed to feel much like their native home. Visitors are welcome at popcorn park to view these animals and read the stories of how they came to live at the refuge. Zoo veterinarians are on staff to provide the popcorn park residents with medical care and wellness checks and if there is ever extensive medical care that an animal needs that cannot be provided on-site, arrangements are made for the animal to be transported to a specialty hospital that can provide that care.
clinic - the veterinary clinics treat injured and sick animals on both a free and paying basis, as well as providing medical care to the animals at our shelter facilities. The clinics are staffed by multiple veterinarians and support staff, and treat 50 to 100 animals or more per week. In addition to providing veterinary services for the public, the clinics also hold events that contribute to the well-being of animals in our communities such as feral cat spay/neuter days and personal pet microchipping events. Our mobile veterinary unit travels to various lower income towns and offers spay/neuter services and wellness visits for those resident's pets. Our shelter veterinarians treat the hundreds of animals that are awaiting adoption and in some cases, provide extensive medical treatment to those animals that are the victims of extreme abuse and neglect. The shelter veterinarians also determine when an animal is in need of specialty care, and make arrangements with outside facilities to provide such care. They ensure that all pets are spayed/neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped prior to being adopted.
animal control - the ahs is contracted with several towns throughout new jersey to answer the calls of stray animals, free roaming animals, and injured animals, both domestic and wild. Ahs employs multiple animal control officers, (aco), that work round the clock to go out on these calls and rescue animals in distress. Our aco's often work with law enforcement organizations on cases involving the inhumane treatment of an animal and are responsible for removing those animals from abusive or neglectful situations and bringing them to the safety of our facilities.
public education & cruelty prevention - the ahs prides itself on our involvement with educating the public on cruelty prevention and humane treatment of all animals. We provide speakers for various venues such as schools and libraries, where we encourage the public to be involved with the animal community and promote spay/neuter of pets and humane treatment of animals. We publish a regularly scheduled booklet titled the humane news, which is distributed to thousands of homes throughout the country and is also available online. This booklet features animal stories from around the world, both humane and inhumane. It features articles on our recent achievements that we have made through rescuing animals, and is geared toward influencing people to adopt pets rather than purchasing them, treating all animals with kindness and respect, and speaking up on behalf of an animal in crisis. The booklet also features animals at all of our facilities that are available for adoption and recent news on our animals that reside at popcorn park. In addition to the humane news, we also utilize social media to spread the message of humane treatment of animals and adopting your pets, as well as operating a website where all of the information on our organization can be found.