We provide shelter for lost, homeless, abandoned, and abused animals, while actively seeking loving, permanent homes. Other services include dog licensing, day and overnight dog boarding, pet grooming facilities by appointment, animal behavior consultants, dog obedience classes, and low cost spay and neuter clinics.

Animal Control Officers respond to public concerns about animals at large or creating a nuisance, and investigate reports of animal neglect and cruelty. CBJ ordinances define the perameters of these services.

We work at local and regional levels to offer programs, services and up-to-date information on animal care. Through the schools and other community groups, we seek to increase public awareness of the problems of animal abuse and overpopulation with projects like KIND News, a four page newspaper for elementary school children, and the First Strike campaign against animal cruelty and domestic violence.

We are helping to make our communities better places for people and animals. Join us. We can't do it alone!

The Gastineau Humane Society provided its service to Juneau and Southeast Alaska for close to 20 years without having its own logo – a little visual identification of the society and its work. Now we see its logo on the society’s stationery, in the newspaper, on fridge magnets with helpful information, and moving around town on the animal shelter vehicles.

Carolyn Hobbs Peterson, an artist who arrived in Juneau in 1966, created our logo. Among her various art products, around 1980, was a simple line drawing representing her two huskies (powerful artistic inspiration to the loving parent that she was), which she had printed on greeting cards that she was selling in stores around town.

The GHS’s first executive director (from the 1960’s to 1988), Howard Gile, spotted the cards in a store in the early 1980’s, and asked Carolyn if the society could use that drawing as its logo. Carolyn, a devoted animal lover and regular volunteer at the shelter until her death in 1997, of course, said yes. She pulled all of the cards out of the stores, and gave them to the society, along with the right to use the drawing as its logo.

The two dogs are Tyonec, a Siberian Husky male born in 1967 who lived to age 13, and Kiana, an Alaskan Husky female born in 1970 who lived to 15. Both were named after Alaskan Native villages, with Ty’s spelling varying slightly from the actual place. Ty has been described as “the smartest dog I’ve ever met; it seems like a person can have a conversation with him.” Kiana, not at all lacking in intelligence, was certainly one of the sweetest and most lovable of dogs. It was interesting to observe that, after Ty’s death, Kiana displayed many of Ty’s characteristics and wisdom. They both live on in our GHS logo. Carolyn was proud of them.