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Leesburg Humane Society


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The Leesburg Humane Society is a No Kill, Non-Profit Organization dedicated to rescuing and caring for abandoned pets and placing them in loving homes.


Leesburg Humane Society
41250 Emeralda Island Rd
Leesburg, FL 34788
Phone: 352-669-3312

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No-kill shelters do wonderful work, but as a result, are often inundated with pet surrenders. In the unfortunate scenario that you have to find a new home for your pet, please read through the rehoming solution and articles on this page before contacting the shelter.

Feral Cat TNR Program
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High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter
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Rescue Groups
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Foster Care
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Comprehensive Adoption Programs
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Pet Retention
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Medical and Behavior Programs
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Public Relations/Community Involvement
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Volunteers
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Proactive Redemptions
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A Compassionate Director
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1. Feral Cat TNR Program

Many communities are embracing Trap, Neuter, Release programs (TNR) to improve animal welfare, reduce death rates, and meet obligations to public welfare.


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2. High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter

Low cost, high volume spay/neuter will quickly lead to fewer animals entering the shelter system, allowing more resources to be allocated toward saving lives.


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3. Rescue Groups

An adoption or transfer to a rescue group frees up scarce cage and kennel space, reduces expenses for feeding, cleaning, killing, and improves a community's rate of lifesaving. In an environment of millions of dogs and cats killed in shelters annually, rare is the circumstance in which a rescue group should be denied an animal.


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4. Foster Care

Volunteer foster care is crucial to No Kill. Without it, saving lives is compromised. It is a low cost, and often no cost, way of increasing a shelter's capacity, improving public relations, increasing a shelter's public image, rehabilitating sick and injured or behaviorally challenged animals, and saving lives.


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5. Comprehensive Adoption Programs

Adoptions are vital to an agency's lifesaving mission. The quantity and quality of shelter adoptions is in shelter management's hands, making lifesaving a direct function of shelter policies and practice. In fact, studies show people get their animals from shelters only 20% of the time. If shelters better promoted their animals and had adoption programs responsive to the needs of the community, including public access hours for working people, offsite adoptions, adoption incentives, and effective marketing, they could increase the number of homes available and replace killing with adoptions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, shelters can adopt their way out of killing.


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6. Pet Retention

While some of the reasons animals are surrendered to shelters are unavoidable, others can be prevented-but only if shelters are willing to work with people to help them solve their problems. Saving animals requires communities to develop innovative strategies for keeping people and their companion animals together. And the more a community sees its shelters as a place to turn for advice and assistance, the easier this job will be.


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7. Medical and Behavior Programs

In order to meet its commitment to a lifesaving guarantee for all savable animals, shelters need to keep animals happy and healthy and keep animals moving through the system. To do this, shelters must put in place comprehensive vaccination, handling, cleaning, socialization, and care policies before animals get sick and rehabilitative efforts for those who come in sick, injured, unweaned, or traumatized.


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8. Public Relations/Community Involvement

Increasing adoptions, maximizing donations, recruiting volunteers and partnering with community agencies comes down to one thing: increasing the shelter's exposure. And that means consistent marketing and public relations. Public relations and marketing are the foundation of all a shelter's activities and their success. To do all these things well, the shelter must be in the public eye.


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9. Volunteers

Volunteers are a dedicated "army of compassion" and the backbone of a successful No Kill effort. There is never enough staff, never enough dollars to hire more staff, and always more needs than paid human resources. That is where volunteers come in and make the difference between success and failure and, for the animals, life and death.


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10. Proactive Redemptions

One of the most overlooked areas for reducing killing in animal control shelters are lost animal reclaims. Sadly, besides having pet owners fill out a lost pet report, very little effort is made in this area of shelter operations. This is unfortunate because doing so-primarily shifting from passive to a more proactive approach-has proven to have a significant impact on lifesaving and allow shelters to return a large percentage of lost animals to their families.


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11. A Compassionate Director

The final element of the No Kill equation is the most important of all, without which all other elements are thwarted-a hard working, compassionate animal control or shelter director not content to regurgitate tired cliches or hide behind the myth of "too many animals, not enough homes." Unfortunately, this one is also oftentimes the hardest one to demand and find.


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I have a beautiful, 11 week old calico kitten I must rehome. She is spayed, microchipped, current on all shots, healthy, affectionate and very active. I will provide all her stuff, including litter and box, bowls and food, toys, scratching posts and carrier. Please email me at [email protected].
posted by axxongroupdru, on 2018-10-11 13:46:08
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Molly is a four-year-old lovely female. She was adopted as a kitten from a shelter and was spayed and given great loving care which matches her personality. She loves to play and her cat scratcher. She does not scratch the furniture. She loves to be petted and her legs rubbed as well. She really is a nice cat but can no longer live with my parents as my mom went into memory care and now my dad into assisted living and because of his health issues cannot take care of her any longer. She was all caught up on her shots and everything until my dad took over. If need be I will take her to the vet if that will help get her adopted. I wish I could keep her but my home already has three rescue pets. She has never been around dogs or young children. I really love this cat and am heartbroken I cannot keep her. I need to do something very soon as I just found out about this a few days ago and they are moving next week. I would love a foster home at the very least until I can find a forever home!!!
posted by fellsway218a, on 2018-03-19 17:01:40
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My daughter has relocated to Florida and can't keep her cat and as she was leaving my son was driving a bus and a customer left a kitten in the back of the bus. He couldn't keep it so he ask my daughter if she could call her friend to see if she could find it a home. Well needless to say I have both cats and I am allergic to them. Both are potty trained but they are locked up in a room all day. I go in there to feed them and clean out there box. I am leaving for a long trip and I can no longer keep them here. Please help me. KD
posted by KathyDermody, on 2017-04-15 10:12:09
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i HAVE HAD 3 FERAL CATS SPAYED AND NEUTERED AT WEKIVA FALLS RV RESORT AND NOW LAKE COUNTY ANIMAL SERVICES ARE TRYING TO TRAP THEM. THEY HAVE BEEN TRAPPING CATS FOR AWHILE OUT THERE AND I KNOW THEY PROBABLY ARE BEING PUT DOWN. THESE 3 CATS DO NOT DESERVE THAT. IF ICOULD TAKE THEM IN I WOULD BUT I HAVE 3 OF MY OWN. I CAN PET 2 OF THEM BUT THE BOBTAIL IS STILL SKIDDISH. I WOULD LIKE TO GET THEM OUT OF THERE TO A NEW HOME. I HAVE BEEN FINED TWICE FOR FEEDING THEM. PLEASE HELP1
posted by nettij71, on 2015-04-13 11:16:48
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What days are you open?
posted by KyannaCook, on 2014-07-28 15:59:44
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I can only hope that you will continue with the No Kill policy. There is a community, Pennbrooke Fairways, that has been trapping feral cats and having animal control destroy them. I thought they had to have some sort of contract with an agency such as LHS to do this. I am quite concerned that these animals are being targeted for trapping and especially in one certain location I wish someone would look into this.
posted by herzog_h, on 2013-07-10 21:59:24
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