Over the last 50 years, Animal Allies Humane Society has earned the reputation as the leading protector of companion animals in the region. Today, Animal Allies places more stray and abandoned animals in adoptive homes, provides more and better services to those animals prior to adoption, spays and neuters more animals, and educates more schoolchildren than any other humane organization in northern Minnesota and northern Wisconsin. The result: Duluth is a dramatically kinder community for vulnerable cats and dogs than it was just 25 years ago. Fueled by Animal Allies' leadership, the number of homeless animals has declined by 40%, adoptions have increased more than 400%, and the number of animals euthanized has decreased by 80%.