Vision

Leavenworth County sets the standard for humane communities, becoming a place where all animals are treated humanely and every pet has a loving forever home.

Mission

Leavenworth County Humane Society, Inc. provides the animal welfare focal point for all of Leavenworth County.

• Conducts humane education for schools and community groups.
• Provides spay / neuter services to reduce the number of homeless animals and enhance the health of homed animals.
• Works to improve animal protection laws and their enforcement.
• Eliminates pet abandonment by providing a humane and legal alternative.
• Cares compassionately for stray, abandoned and relinquished animals in a pro-life, state-of-the-art shelter and licensed foster homes.
• Reunites lost pets with their owners.
• Re-homes adoptable animals with responsible owners and provides adoption follow-up.
• Helps owners retain their pets by providing education and training assistance.
• Assists in emergency planning and action for animals.
• Supports law enforcement with cruelty and neglect investigations.
• Partners with cities, the county, other rescues, shelters and animals welfare groups to create a humane county where people and animals want to live.

Values

We believe that:

• Animals are capable of pleasure and pain and are worthy of human compassion.
• Humans have a moral responsibility to treat animals humanely.
• People want to provide lifelong appropriate care for their animals.
• Companion animals enhance the quality of human life.
• Violence, cruelty and neglect toward animals is related to violence, cruelty and neglect toward humans.
• Promoting compassion toward animals encourages people to treat each other with respect and kindness.
• Humane communities attract law-abiding responsible citizens that contribute to the overall quality of life for all.