Lycoming Animal Protection Society, Inc.
Welcome to www.lapsshelter.org,
the website for Lycoming Animal Protection Society (L.A.P.S).
Lycoming Animal Protection Society (LAPS) is a non-profit organization that is staffed completely by volunteers and provides care and adoption services for many homeless cats and kittens at its no-kill shelter in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Visiting hours can be seen here.
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Urgent - Your help is needed! As a no-kill feline shelter, LAPS has always provided a quality of veterinary care, including spaying and neutering, for all cats and kittens served by our organization. In 2010, this resulted in veterinary expenses in excess of $45,000. To help LAPS defray our costs in 2011, and continue to provide necessary veterinary care, please make a tax-deductible donation directly to: Loyalsock Animal Hospital; Attn: LAPS Veterinary Bill, 1900 Northway Road, Williamsport, PA 17701.
Please see our How To Help page for information relating to adopting or sponsoring a kitty, making a donation to LAPS, being a volunteer at L.A.P.S., L.A.P.S. Membership, our aluminum can program, and our current Wish List for items needed for the every day care of our shelter's cats and kittens.
During any given year, over 6 million animals (more than the entire human population of Missouri) enter shelters and become homeless. Over 50% of them are euthanized due to overcrowding or health issues related to abuse and neglect. The sad animals you see in the t.v. commercials, which are so difficult to watch, are real. Those animals, and many more like them, really do exist. Read more here.
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2012 Shelter+ Challenge - Vote for us at www.theanimalrescuesite.com (the challenge runs from 1/9 to 3/18/12).
The Animal Rescue Site is hosting a special challenge for eligible
Petfinder.com member shelter and rescue groups. Seventy (70) grants will be awarded for a total of $75,000 to eligible Petfinder.com members during the very first voting round of the 2012 Challenge. Ten $1,000 grants will be awarded, one for each week of this voting round of the Shelter+ Challenge.
Think how many animals we could help for $1,000!
Help us win! All you have to do is click to help rescued animals, and then vote in The Animal Rescue Site $300,000 Shelter+ Challenge. Both of these actions are absolutely free! You can vote once a day, every day, from January 9, 2012 and ends at midnight Pacific Time on Sunday, March 18, 2012! Every time you vote, or tell a friend to vote, you are making a huge difference for us. Vote today! Visit: www.theanimalrescuesite.com and vote today!
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HELP WANTED: Care givers. THE LAPS CATS are looking for a few cat loving people willing to give of their time to help with the care and feeding needs of the felines at the shelter. This position is open for Saturday evenings. Duties would include, food water, litter scooping and meds. Humans will assist in training. Are you without a Saturday night date, well our cats are here to fill that void in your life for just some general care and attention. All candidates would need to be open to purrs, leg rubs, and general attentions from all the felines in residence. If you or someone you know might fit into this position, please give THE LAPS CATS a call at 327-8707. Time on Saturday evenings is flexible to fit candidates needs and time constraints. You can also reply by email to the shelter at lapsshelter@windstream.net
HELP WANTED: Meds givers. THE LAPS CATS are looking for a couple of people within the organization or within the email field of Williamsport area to learn to give meds and be able to fill in when the staff is shorthanded. It seems a number of volunteers have family obligations that take them away from their shelter duties for a time so we need a few new, dedicated people to fill in at times of need. Do you have vet tech experience or medical knowledge? This would be a plus, but certainly not necessary as we have staff willing to train. If interested in helping the cats, please call 327-8707 or apply to lapsshelter@windstream.net
Miracle In Motion - see a short commercial about our "Miracle Cat". ( Windows Media Player required)
LAPS has visiting residents at PETCO in the Lycoming Crossings
Mall. You can see them any time the store is open. Directions to the PETCO
store are here.
Be sure to check our fundraiser page frequently as new fundraisers are being added when you least expect them.
To see pictures of our cats and kittens (aka "residents"), you can go to our Residents page, or visit Petfinder.com for a more comprehensive listing from our shelter.
Our Events page will give you an idea of what LAPS is going to be doing in the community.
Read our online Newsletters which will give you an idea of what L.A.P.S. has been doing. (Summer 2011 on-line 7/16/11). You can even sign up for email notification when new newsletters have been posted. We often have articles published about our activities - read them In the News.
Please notice that we have added a FORMS button to our menu. The new Forms page contains all the forms mentioned throughout this website.
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If you would be interested in receiving information through your email, like updates, crisis information, lost animal announcements, and other similar postings, please send your email address to: info@lapsshelter.org.
Please direct all inquiries of a time-sensitive nature relating to the welfare of animals to the L.A.P.S. email address: lapsshelter@windstream.net