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Stumble It!The Kansas Animal Health Department took nearly 200 animals from a rural home to the Lawrence Humane Society.
There were 112 dogs and 75 cats taken from a woman who held a licensed animal shelter in her Miami County residence and failed inspection. Although the Lawrence Humane Society, 1805 E. 19th St., had little trouble placing the animals comfortably in emergency kennels, it plans to send some of them to other animal shelters in Kansas.
Midge Grinstead, Lawrence Humane Society director, said the humane society would keep the animals that were hard to adopt or needed extra care because it served as a full service shelter. The staff will also try to nurse animals back to health, if needed.
"No other shelter in our state does that," Grinstead said. "So, we thought, well, if we send our adoptable ones to Topeka, Wichita and Hays, they'll have a better chance of all getting adopted."
The Lawrence Humane Society plans to keep 60 dogs and 50 cats out of the 187 animals that arrived.
