Lead the way towards an aware and engaged community dedicated to compassionate and humane care of animals by promoting successful placement and responsible pet ownership.

To promote and provide the responsible care and treatment of animals.

• The placement of all healthy and treatable cats and dogs by 2020.
• To become an employer of choice within the animal welfare community in the Mountain state region.
• Establishment of a viable funding framework that provides for the growth of Larimer Humane Society programs and services.
• Promote a collaborative effort with other concerned entities in Larimer County focusing on responsible pet ownership and increasing live release rates.
• Design, fund and construct a new state of the art facility for Larimer Humane Society.
• Recruit new Larimer Humane Society Board members and promote increased training for new and existing Board members.

Founded in 1969, Larimer Humane Society is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to promote and provide the responsible care and treatment of animals.  As Northern Colorado’s only open-door animal care facility, we provide shelter, medical attention and care to nearly 12,000 lost, abandoned, injured, abused, ill and orphaned wild and domestic animals each year. 

Through our quality adoptions and lost & found services, we place more than 3,500 companion animals into new homes annually and reunite just over 2,100 stray animals with their grateful owners.  In addition to finding placement for our companion animals, we are happy to provide rehabilitation services to approximately 3,000 ill, injured and orphaned Colorado wild animals each year through our WildKind program.

Larimer Humane Society is also home to the county’s only Animal Protection & Control unit. Through contractual agreements, Larimer Humane Society provides full-service animal control for Fort Collins, Loveland, and unincorporated areas of Larimer County, as well as stray-animal sheltering for Wellington, Windsor, Timnath and Berthoud.

Members of the public benefit from Larimer Humane Society’s educational programming. We offer summer and day camps to school-age children, as well as valuable humane education presentations, shelter tours, scout programs and fun activities for adults, teens and kids. Our goal is to educate our community on the proper care and treatment of animals so we can provide responsible care for our pets and learn to humanely co-exist with wild animal neighbors and how to help animals in need.

Larimer Humane Society is an independent, nonprofit agency. We are not a division of the Larimer County government or the cities of Loveland or Fort Collins, nor are we are we operated or funded by any national animal welfare organizations. We are a 501(c)(3) corporation and are governed by a volunteer board of directors.

Larimer Humane Society is funded by three main sources: