November 5, 2012
Resources for Hawaii
Animal information at your fingertips
Report stray or injured animals or animal cruelty
- Call your your local animal care and control agency if you have found a stray or injured animal.
- Contact your local law enforcement agency or call 911 to report a case of animal cruelty.
The HSUS
Pets
- Contact your local animal shelter if you've lost or found an animal, or are interested in adopting an animal.
- Hawaii animal welfare and pet adoption groups listed by Petfinder
Animal care and control, animal shelters
- Hawaiian Humane Society (Oahu): 808-356-2250
- Maui Humane Society: 808-877-3680
- Kauai Humane Society: 808-632-0610
- Hawaii Island Humane Society (Big Island—Kona, Keaau, and Waimea shelters): 808-329-1175
- Molokai Humane Society: 808-558-0000 (email: molokaihumanesociety@gmail.com)
- SPCA Maui (email: sue@spcamaui.org or peter@spcamaui.org)
- West Maui Animal Shelter: 808-269-6979
Animal rescue groups and sanctuaries
- 9th Life cat rescue (email: 9thlifehawaii@earthlink.net)
- East Maui Animal Refuge/Boo Boo Zoo (email: guardiananimals@gmail.com or sylvan@booboozoo.org)
- Feline Foundation of Maui (email: jdrout@maui.net or Cindy Terira)
- Hawaii Animal Rescue Foundation (email: dawn@hawaiianimalrescue.org)
- Last Resort Dog Rescue (email: dogrescuehawaii@hotmail.com)
- Lanai Animal Rescue Center (email: kathy@lanaianimalrescue.org)
- Leilani Farm Sanctuary (email: info@leilanifarmsanctuary.org)
- Maui Homeward Bound Rescue (email: mlrainbows@hawaii.rr.com)
- Maui Pitbull Rescue (email: mauipitbullrescue@hotmail.com)
- K9 Kokua (Oahu): 808-853-7268—focuses on the dogs of people who are houseless, financially destitute, or affected by domestic violence
Feral cats and spay/neuter resources
- Big Island
AdvoCats
West Hawaii Humane Society
Hui Pono Holoholona: 808-968-8279 (email: webmistress@hphhawaii.org)
- Maui
Maui Humane Society feral cat program
Feline Foundation of Maui (feral cat spay/neuter): 808-891-1181 - Kauai
Kauai Humane Society
State legislature
- Hawaii State Legislature and Bill Status
- Look up your state legislators.
- Hawaii Legislature Public Access Room (This great resource has wonderfully friendly staff, knowledgeable about all things legislative in Hawaii.)
Wildlife
- Wildlife crimes: rewards offered for information on poaching, illegal killing of wild animals, etc.
- Find a wildlife rehabilitator in Hawaii.
- Stranded sea turtles
NOAA: 808-983-5730/808-288-5685 or 808-288-0023 (weekends, holidays, after hours)
Division of Conservation and Resource Enforcement: 808-587-0077 - Stranded monk seals
Marine Mammal Program: 888-256-9840 - NOAA's monk seal sighting hotline
email: pifsc.monksealsighting@noaa.gov or call
Oahu: 808-220-7802
Kauai: 808-651-7668
Maui/Lanai: 808-292-2372
Molokai: 808-553-5555
Island of Hawaii: 808-756-5961 (East)/808-987-0765 (West) - Whales and dolphins
NMFS: 888-256-9840 - Other wildlife issues
State Department of Forestry and Wildlife: 808-643-DLNR or 808-973-9786 (Oahu)
Public health and veterinary services
- State Animal Quarantine Station: 808-483-7151
- State Department of Health/Vector Control: 808-483-2535
- Hawaii Veterinary Medical Association/Eric Ako, D.V.M., HVMA executive vice president: 808-733-8828
