Southeast Kansas Humane Society asks Crawford County for $30,000 monthly to avoid closure

The Southeast Kansas Humane Society formally asked the Crawford County Commission on a county funding plan that would provide $30,000 a month to keep the shelter open and avoid shutting down intakes planned for the end of December 2025. Jasmine Kyle, director of the Southeast Kansas Humane Society, told commissioners the shelter is “at a crisis point” and said, “Without sustainable monthly funding from the county, we are looking to be forced to be shut down by the end of this year, by this December 2025.”

Kyle said the shelter — which she identified as the county’s only large open-intake facility for dogs and cats — provided five years of financial and operational data to commissioners and that the organization had taken in “over 1,000 animals” in the past four years, with roughly 93.8% of intakes coming from Crawford County during that period. She said donations and community fundraising totaled about $1,600,000 over that…