1805 E. 19th Street, Lawrence, KS 66046 | Program Focus: Environment and Animals
ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
The Lawrence Humane Society provides shelter, love, and care to over 5,000 animals every year!
The Lawrence Humane Society has been serving the city of Lawrence, Douglas County, and neighboring cities and counties since 1951, sheltering and caring for over 5,000 animals per year. Over the last half-decade, LHS has been on a journey to overcome the previous barriers that contributed to unnecessarily low live-release rates, including building a new 20,000 square-foot facility designed to decrease disease-spread and stress, establishing an in-house veterinary clinic to ensure prompt care for shelter animals, and building capacity within the behavior department to allow for animals with behavioral challenges to get the support they need to be successfully adopted. Animals enter our care as strays, owner surrenders, cruelty confiscations, and transferred in from other shelters. We are the only animal shelter serving the entirety of Douglas County.
We seek to be a national leader for medium-sized shelters, demonstrate how animal shelters can become an integral social service agency in a community, and create a future in which barriers don't exist in pet ownership. As such, we have made enormous strides in the last few years to serve our community in more holistic ways outside of just being a place where people go to either surrender or adopt animals. We believe that the future of animal sheltering is the work that happens outside the shelter, so we actively partner with other community organizations and social service agencies to best serve the pets AND people of Douglas County.
We have robust volunteer and foster programs, an active TNVR program for community cats, transfer in over 700 animals annually from rural and low-capacity shelters, and our Crisis Pet Retention program seeks to keep people and pets together during the hardest of times. We provide low-cost and subsidized veterinary care to publicly owned pets, distribute over 5,000 lbs of pet food to pet owners in need, and host monthly pet vaccine clinics for pet owners who cannot afford private veterinary care.
Our staff work diligently to care for and ensure the safety, health, and well being of all Douglas County pets and their people!
Our Mission
Our mission is to nurture the human-animal bond by providing shelter, care, and advocacy for homeless and vulnerable animals, as well as resources for the pets and people in our community. We seek to be a national leader for medium-sized shelters, demonstrate how animal shelters can become an integral social service agency in a community, and create a future in which barriers don't exist in pet ownership.
