Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society

About MACS

Mission Statement

To serve animals by providing humane education supporting and initiating affirmative legislative action, performing animal adoptions and animal rescues, reuniting lost pets with their families, and conducting cruelty investigations at all times.

Training advice

Do you and your new pet need some help getting to know one another? Wants a model patient for the vet? Maybe you'd like to teach an old dog some new tricks? We recommend Best Friends Dog Training with Shirley Julin

" Happiness is a Well-Trained dog"

They can be reached at: (248) 393-0699

Classes are held in Eastpointe, Grosse Pointe and Roseville

Adoptions and Adoption Fees

We have many adoptable animals at our shelter with new ones arriving every day. Every adoption is made in the best interest of the animal. All applications are taken as quickly and throughly as possible, however, your patience is appreciated as the needs of the animals in the shelter always come first, which may delay your application process.

Dog adoption fees are $125 and cat adoption fees are $100 regardless of the size, age or medical condition of the animal when they arrived at the shelter. This includes all shots and the spay or neuter of the pet.

It is policy that every animal adopted from the shelter, regardless of size or breed be altered to help control the unwanted animal population.

Unchain My Heart

Before I die, I would like everyone

to know how I feel. I am very old

now, and I have lived and will die

chained in the backyard.

I suffered the cold of winter

and the heat of summer. I

have never known the comforts

of family life. I have never been

invited inside to enjoy an evening

with my family. I have never been for a walk.

I see my family for five minutes

each day when they bring me food

and water, never at the same time.

I have so much love in my heart to

give them, and now that I am near

then end of my days, they will never

know how much I loved them.

I forgive them for the way they

treated me, but my hearts heavy

with sadness for all the dogs who

live and die on a chain.

-Maire Alexaner

The Starfish Poem, Rescue Version

(Anon adaptation of L Eiseley's "The Star Thrower", from Usenet)

As I walked along the seashore, this young boy greeted me.

He was tossing stranded starfish back to the deep blue sea.

I said "Tell me why you bother, why you waste your time this way?

There's a million stranded starfish; Does it matter, anyway?"

And he said:

"It matters to this one, it deserves a chance to grow.

It matters to this one, though I can't save them all I know.

Because it matters to this one, I'll return it to the sea.

It matters to this one, and it matters to me."

I walked into a shelter, the director greeted me.

She was helping Misty learn to trust, Misty was struggling I could see.

I said, "Tell me why you bother, why you waste your time this way?

Misty's only one of thousands, does it matter anyway?"

The director simply smiled and said:

"It matters to this one, she deserves a chance to grow.

It matters to this one, I can't save them all I know.

Because it matters to this one, I'll help her be what she can be.

It matters to this one, and it matters to me.