Lynchburg Humane Society Blog

Life is busy. We get it. No one has enough time.   And when you add in the stress of the holidays your life becomes chaotic and filled with activities that you didn’t have time for to begin with.   So why would anyone want to throw a new pet in the mix?   Read on and I will explain why it makes perfect sense to add a pet as a new family member during this time of year.    Home 4 the Holidays is a national promotion that many humane organizations participate in. This will be our fourth year doing it in Lynchburg and this year we are going all out. We want to find homes for all the pets before the end of the year.   We want empty cages. We want pets that are alone day in and day out to know what it means to have a warm loving home where they get the attention they need.   Everyone deserves a family during the holiday season.   That is why we are having three major adoption events where all the pets are only $30. If you don’t think you are...

A letter to the Virginia Federation of Humane Societies and Dr. Kovich with the State Vets Office.  On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Lynchburg Humane Society,  I would like to voice our support for TNR programs here in Virginia.   I have been in this field for almost 13 years and I have worked in a high intake, high kill shelter and a number of no kill shelters.  Currently I am the executive director of The Lynchburg Humane Society,  the pound for the City of Lynchburg  with a current save rate of 94% What I find very interesting about those opposing the TNR (trap,neuter, return) programs is that their arguments don't make sense.  From my perspective it comes down to one thing.  The "old" way of handling these community or feral cats have been in operation now for over two decades and we still have a problem.  They have had two decades of the old way of scooping up the cats and killing them but we still have a huge ...