Lynchburg Humane Society 2025 Gift Guide!

Posted on November 21, 2025November 24, 2025 by Claire LeFew

Thinking about holiday gifting and not sure where to start? How about shopping small for a gift that also helps save pets!

Visit our Lynchburg Humane Society Center for Pets Retail Store

Surrounding our Adoption Team’s desk is our retail store here at LHS! Our retail store is full of incredible items that would be a great gift for any animal lover or even gifts for your pets. We have LHS t-shirts designed in-house and printed locally, embroidered dad hats, excellent weatherproof stickers, our calendars, a limited-edition ornament, and more for the humans in your life. For the pets in your life, we have adorable leashes and collars!

Our 2026 LHS Calendar

Our 2026 Calendar, designed in-house and printed locally, is now available for purchase! You can purchase an LHS calendar in person at the Center for Pets or order online to pick up or have it shipped right to you! This year, our calendars are a better deal than ever at just $20.

Click here to order a 2026 Calendar online

Donating in Honor of your loved one

Whether it’s a person or a furry friend, tribute gifts to the Lynchburg Humane Society are a beautiful way to celebrate the life of someone special while simultaneously helping animals in need. On our donation form, you can indicate who your gift is in honor of and we will send them a special letter notifying them of your generosity! Click here to visit our donation page.

You can also donate to our Dedication of Lights as a holiday gift and they will also get a star and luminary with the name of your choosing at our Center for Pets!

Click here for our Dedication of Lights Form

Another special way to donate in honor of a loved one is with our Celebration Garden! For a $250 donation, you can name one of our one-of-a-kind Glass Sculptures designed by local artist Paul Clements. Each one is unique, just like the pets we serve.

Click here for our Celebration Garden Information

Visit our online Bonfire retail store

For folks who need items shipped or are interested in sweatshirts and hoodies we don’t carry in our retail store, we have a wonderful store with Bonfire! Bonfire makes all of these products to order and ships them right to you. Bonfire does take a cut of these sales to cover their costs, but all other proceeds go right to the pets at LHS and having this retail store comes at no cost to us! Check out the wonderful products on bonfire at the button below:

Click here to visit our Bonfire Retail Store

Press Release: Lynchburg Humane Society celebrates the groundbreaking of their new regional veterinary clinic, offering affordable care.

Posted on October 13, 2025November 18, 2025 by Claire LeFew

(October 13, 2025)— The Lynchburg Humane Society (LHS) proudly marked a major milestone in its mission to improve animal welfare across Central Virginia with a groundbreaking celebration for its new Regional Low-Cost Veterinary Clinic on Sunday, October 12. The event, held at the organization’s main campus at 1211 Old Graves Mill Road, drew a crowd of enthusiastic supporters, community leaders, local donors, and pet lovers.

The future clinic will stand on the same campus and connect to the current Center for Pets, located at 1211 Old Graves Road, and offer low-cost, high-quality veterinary services to families in need, expanding LHS’s reach and ability to keep more pets healthy and out of shelters. In addition to general veterinary services, the new facility will house the organization’s existing Spay/Neuter Clinic, which is currently located in Evington and serves more than 20 localities across Central Virginia, and performed over 8,000 surgeries last year.

” This Clinic is not just about affordable services — it’s about keeping pets with the people who love them, preventing unnecessary surrenders, and making sure every family has the chance to say ‘yes’ to caring for their pets,” said Jill Mollohan, Executive Director of LHS, during her remarks.

The afternoon celebration included remarks from Mollohan, special guests Christine Kennedy and Heath Barret from the Lynchburg Regional Business Alliance, Committee Chairs Bill and Brenda Gray, Development Director Michelle Thomas, ceremonial shovels and hard hats to mark the groundbreaking moment, and a festive atmosphere with live music, local food and drinks, and plenty of purrs and wagging tails.

The new clinic is being built by Coleman-Adams Construction and designed by Dominion 7 Architects. To date, LHS has raised $4.7 million of its $7.5 million campaign goal and is continuing its call for community support to fully fund the project.

Click here to find out more about the project

Press Release: Lynchburg Humane Society begins construction of a new regional veterinary clinic offering affordable care.

Posted on July 31, 2025July 31, 2025 by Claire LeFew

(July 31, 2025)— Lynchburg Humane Society is excited to share that they have started construction on their new regional veterinary clinic, offering affordable care. A ground-breaking ceremony is planned for the fall, in cooler weather. The construction company that was awarded the bid for this project is Coleman-Adams Construction, and the architect is Dominion 7 (who also designed the current Center for Pets). The current fundraising total for the project is $4.6 million, with a total goal of $7.5 million needed for the project.

This regional veterinary clinic will offer low-cost, quality care that will serve as a lifeline for pets and their owners in need. The clinic will be located next to the Center for Pets animal shelter at 1211 Old Graves Mill Road. The new clinic will also house the Spay/Neuter Clinic operations, which are currently located in Evington. The current Spay/Neuter clinic serves 20+ localities in Central Virginia.

“This is an exciting time for LHS, pets, and the people who love them! Our new low-cost regional veterinary clinic will benefit not only Lynchburg and our organization but also address the overpopulation of pets, alleviate overcrowding in animal shelters in our surrounding counties, and keep pets with their families where they belong,” said Jill Mollohan, Executive Director. “We still have fundraising to do to reach our goal, but we are confident that our community will come through for this vital project, which will significantly benefit both people and pets, and ultimately improve our city and surrounding areas, and allow us to save more animals in our no-kill shelter.”

The Lynchburg Humane Society needs the support of our community to make this crucial project a reality. Anyone interested in getting involved or finding out more information can visit www.LHSvetclinic.org to donate or stay up-to-date on their social media pages. Donations to the Capital Campaign may be pledged over four years. Stock donations and IRA distributions are welcome.

Find out more about the Clinic Project here!

Adoptable dog, Ariel, checking out the site!

Did you know? Donating to your local animal shelter has a larger impact.

Posted on December 16, 2024October 7, 2025 by Claire LeFew

Donating to your local animal shelter directly helps your community.

Author: Jill Mollohan, Executive Director

When you donate to a local animal shelter, your generosity directly impacts pets in your community. It’s important to know that many national organizations focus on broader animal welfare initiatives, such as advocating for better laws or supporting large-scale rescue efforts. While their work is valuable, it may not always include direct support for local shelters. In fact, only a small percentage of donations—sometimes as little as 1-2%—may reach shelters, if at all, and many don’t operate shelters themselves.

If your goal is to help the pets in your local community, donating directly to the shelter you know and love is the best way to ensure your contribution has a direct and meaningful impact. For example, donations to the Lynchburg Humane Society directly support the feeding, medical care, and finding loving homes for the homeless pets in our Lynchburg community and the wider region. Researching the organizations you support, whether they’re local or national, is always a good practice to make sure your donation aligns with your values and intentions.

Thank you for caring about animals and for making thoughtful choices when you give. Your support means everything!

Did you know? Your lifesaving donations are doubled through year-end.

Posted on November 27, 2023November 27, 2023 by Claire LeFew

Author: Jill Mollohan, Executive Director

Did you know right now your donations are doubled?

End of year giving is vital to the Lynchburg Humane Society to continue helping nearly 10,000 pets per year and over 7,000 people. That is why some wonderful supporters came together and pledged to give a total of $100,000 and are challenging the community to donate and have their donations matched.

That means your donation is doubled from now until December 31! Your donation will help twice as many pets!

Your support will help us save pets like Athena and her kittens. Athena’s owner reached out to us for help, he had become overwhelmed with too many cats and not able to tend to their health needs. Athena came in with some of her housemates who were all sick with severe upper respiratory infections. Athena though, was pregnant and both of her eyes had ruptured from illness and infection. Once she had her kittens, she was too weak and sick to care for them at first. With care from staff and a loving foster home, the kittens were cared for and Athena was treated for her illnesses. And look at Athena now with her beautiful kittens! Even though Athena is blind now, she is a great mom to her kittens and they all deserve a loving home. They are still under our medical care, but will be available for adoption soon! Without your support, we cannot continue to help pets like Athena and her kittens survive and get their second chance at the life they deserve.

Lynchburg Humane Society

Author: Claire LeFew