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1.3 miHaskell University
1.7 miLawrence High School
1.7 miCheckers
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Specialties
The Lawrence Humane Society provides shelter, care, and advocacy to stray, homeless, and abused animals and nurtures the human-animal bond.
We offer pet adoptions, lost/found services, and conduct humane investigations. Our animal shelter accepts 3500 animals a year. There is never a limit on how long an animal may stay with us and 100 percent of friendly, healthy, and treatable animals reunited or placed into new homes.
History
Established in 1951.
The first humane group in Lawrence started in the 1890s. Affiliated with the ASPCA, this group’s main concern was with the welfare of pets and of working farm animals such as horses. The charter lapsed after some years.
The Humane Society as we know it today was chartered on March 26, 1951. Several years later four acres were purchased on east 19th Street for the future site of the animal shelter. In 1958 a $ 35,000 grant from charter members Dr. and Mrs. John Ise, in memory of their son Charles who was killed in a plane crash, permitted construction of the original shelter building to begin.
During the next thirty-five years the Lawrence Humane Society initiated many fund-raising programs and new policies as shelter duties and animal intake steadily increased. An addition to the shelter was completed in 1979, the Society initiated the spay and neuter subsidy voucher program, and in 1986 the shelter began 24-hour emergency animal rescue service.
Following an energetic building pro
