County Animal Shelter

240.773.5960

14645 Rothgeb Drive

Rockville, MD 20850

Hours to Visit

With the Animals

Mon, Tues Thurs, Fri:

noon-7pm

Closed Wednesdays

Sat & Sun: noon-5pm

Business Hours and Looking For Lost Pets

Mon, Tues Thurs, Fri:

10am-7pm

Closed Wednesdays

Sat & Sun: 10am-5pm

Directions

MCHS

In The News

Katrina Dogs: Three Years Later

By Debra Bell

Washingtonpost.com Staff Writer
Thursday, August 28, 2008 and

Friday, August 29, 2008

Koda: Newborn and His Six Siblings
Get a Second Chance

Possum: Outgoing Dog Gets a New Owner

Honey: An Exhausted Mother with
Five Mouths to Feed

Shelters Keep Tight Leash on Adoptions - D.C. Animal Group Says It's Time to Be More People-Friendly

By Steve Hendrix

Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 9, 2008

After all the forms had been filled out, veterinarian records vetted and the multiple mandatory visits to the animal shelter completed, the Ling family's long quest to adopt a dog came down to this...

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Losing a Best Friend

Along with the House

By Steve Hendrix

Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 9, 2008

The families started coming in during the winter, parents and kids gathered in the cramped lobby of the Montgomery County Humane Society shelter to hand over their pets...

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Puppy Mill Aftermath...

Victories, Little by Little, Mark Rescued Dogs' New Start

By Annie Gowen

Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 25, 2007

Barbara Grewe was in her kitchen, getting the cranberry salad ready for Thanksgiving, when she looked down and saw her rescued pup, Gerti, wagging her tail. It was a small victory, for sure...

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Dogs' Best Friends to the Rescue: Volunteers Rush to the Aid of Animals Seized at Suspected Virginia Puppy Mill...

By Annie Gowen and Donna St. George

Washington Post Staff Writers

November 10, 2007

Some of the adult dogs arriving at the Montgomery County animal shelter Thursday acted like newborn pups with splayed legs, wobbly as they tried to walk. They had never been on solid ground...

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Using Curiosity to Her Advantage, Cat Finds Home in 8 Days, 3 Miles

By Mariana Minaya

Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 11, 2007

Duncan, a gray, striped tabby, is not an indoor cat. She hates being stuck inside when staying with her owner's friend Sandra DeLony, who doesn't dare let Duncan out while catsitting -- just to be on the safe side...

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The Rap on Pit Bulls Revisited-

Odds Improving for the Good Ones
at Area Shelters

By Bill Brubaker

Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, July 30, 2007

The black puppies were cute, cuddly and just a day old. But their hours at the Loudoun County Animal Shelter were numbered. If only they had been a different breed, their fate might have been different. But they were...

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Owner Loses First Ruling Over
Fate of Pet Monkey --
Armani Is Too Young to Be
Legal, Board Says

By Katherine Shaver

Thursday June 21, 2007

Armani, the pet capuchin monkey whose fate has drawn national attention, won't be returning to his Rockville home, at least for now...

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Some residents unhappy with animal shelter’s move, construction slated to begin in late 2009 or 2010

by Melissa J. Brachfeld

Staff Writer

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Some Derwood residents say they do not support the county animal shelter’s plans to relocate its facility from Rockville to...

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A New Life for Aspin Hill Pet Cemetery

Once caught up in legal battles, facility is regaining respect

by Melissa J. Brachfeld

Staff Writer

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Montgomery County Humane Society officials believe the Aspin Hill Pet Cemetery can become more than a final resting place for animals. They want it to be a place of learning...

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Families Learn that Dogs from Puppy Mill Need Time, Patience

By Erin Donaghue

Staff Writer

Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007

All but two of the 25 dogs rescued from an alleged puppy mill in southern Virginia have found a home through Montgomery County Humane Society adoption services, but for those who adopted the rescued dogs, there is still a long road ahead...

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Rescued dogs find refuge at Rockville shelter

By Sebastian Montes

Staff Writer

November 9,2007

Two dozen dogs rescued from an alleged puppy mill in Southern Virginia arrived at the Montgomery County Humane Society's shelter in Rockville Thursday night...

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Helping people by helping animals - Friends of Rachel Smith raise money for a fund in her name that will be used to help at-risk youth through working with pets

By Christina Marnik

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

When Suzanne Collier and Allie Cossman remember their friend Rachel Smith, the first thing that comes to mind is her love for animals...

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Humane society holds deed to pet cemetery - Chesapeake Wildlife Sanctuary president, vice president evicted from property

By Melissa J. Brachfeld

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

But the transition was not as seamless as humane society officials had hoped...

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Community pleased with fate of pet cemetery - Montgomery County Humane Society plans to restore buildings, create park-like setting

By Melissa J. Brachfeld

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Several area residents are breathing a sigh of relief after learning that the Montgomery County Humane Society has plans to restore and improve the Aspin Hill Pet Cemetery.

Last week, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge DeLawrence Beard ordered ...

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Pet cemetery to go to Humane Society - Circuit Court judge issues opinion that Chesapeake Wildlife Sanctuary breached agreements for use of site

By Melissa J. Brachfeld
Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Chesapeake Wildlife Sanctuary and its president, Dianne D. Pearce, have lost control of the Aspin Hill Pet Cemetery, according to Montgomery County Circuit Court documents filed Monday.

After battling for years in Circuit Court...

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Shelters unaffected by pet food contamination

By David Francis

May 17, 2007

Pet shelters in the Washington area have not been affected by

the contaminated pet food that sickened animals around the country and triggered a major product recall...

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Officials: $13 million animal shelter will be safer, bigger - Montgomery County has plans to replace the old shelter with a new and improved building.

By Dena Levitz, The Examiner
Mar 17, 2007

Montgomery County is on the brink of getting a new animal shelter that will be twice as large and much more sophisticated than the facility used for the past three decades...

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Teens create memorial fund to benefit MCHS

By
Dena Levitz, The Examiner
Mar 29, 2007

Two Montgomery County high schoolers are leading a unique effort to memorialize Rachel Smith, the younger of the two local girls whose double suicide captured national headlines earlier this year...

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Bunnies: Life After Easter

By

Robin Tierney, Special to the Examiner

Charmed by the idea of an Easter Bunny? Time for a reality check...

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Rescued Dogs

Looking for Homes

Friday, November 9, 2007

Hundreds of animals living in deplorable conditions are on their way to new homes. A major operation in southwest Virginia rescued these puppies and is getting ready to place them with owners.

The Humane Society of the United States said it found more than 900...

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Shelter offers love in all shapes,

sizes and species...at Montgomery Humane Society facility, humans find friends, animals find homes

By Rona Marech
March 19, 2007

It's not easy being a pit bull - even a sweet pit bull with floppy ears and a sleek coat the color of maple syrup.

Sometimes 3-year-old Hazel stands alert, tail pumping, eyes bright, and other times, she doesn't even bother

to look up at visitors to the Montgomery County Animal Shelter.

Either way, it doesn't seem to make much of a difference...

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Hop to It
Potomac Glen children raise $2,300 for Montgomery County Humane Society

By

Aaron Stern/The Almanac
March 12, 2008

Stuffed animals clutched under their arms, a room full of children danced to the Bunny Hop and Chicken Dance songs. Their parents got into the act too...

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Where’s The Love?
Humane Society tries to smooth the hard road to adoption for black cats.

By

Aaron Stern/The Almanac
August 21, 2007

Sleeping in a crate at the Montgomery County Humane Society with three other orphaned cats, 3-month-old Lark would seem to be the model of an adoptable cat. She is fuzzy, friendly toward people, and the domestic shorthair kitten has her life in front of her. There’s just one small problem with Lark...

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Wagging Tails Reopens - The Montgomery County Humane Society’s thrift store celebrated it’s grand re-opening last week

By

Aaron Stern, The Almanac

March 22, 2007

There are few places where shoppers can buy diamond rings,

antique books, and bus seats all while accompanied by their

favorite four-legged friend...

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Safe Haven - New rescue shelter in Rockville means that euthanizing homeless animals is a thing of the past

By

Aaron Stern, The Almanac
February 8, 2007

Leo doesn’t have the best reputation around here. He isn’t always pleasant

toward visitors, but on Thursday morning the five year old

Catahoula-German Shepherd mix...

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