The Lycoming County SPCA has received funding to award several scholarships to local students for our upcoming Safari Day Camp from Athletes for Animals. We would like to encourage students, age 6 ½ through 13, to apply for the available scholarships. Interested students should complete the […]
A very happy Bear went home with his new forever family on Friday night. His adopters were as excited as he was! Staff at the Lycoming County SPCA were particularly happy for Bear because he was such a skittish young fellow. He was terrified of most […]
Sometimes life throws us curveballs. When our world suddenly seems tilted and strange, how do we cope? Often, family and friends provide a sense of safety and reassurance. For Dallas, he found those family and friends here at the Lycoming County SPCA. Dallas came into […]
Scott has had quite the journey, from Pennsylvania to Utah and now on to his forever home. The beefy one-year-old came to the Lycoming County SPCA in February 2018. His owner felt that she was unable to keep up with his activity level, so she surrendered […]
“Ben was becoming a very social kitten, but his mom remained an aloof barn cat,” explains Kelli Smith, Animal Team Lead for the Lycoming County SPCA. “We wanted them to be adopted together, but the chances of them finding the same home were slim.” Ben and […]
Staff member Wendy loves to treat the pooches in her life with these tasty “pupcakes.” Doggie Cupcakes Ingredients ½ cup rye flour (or whole wheat flour or brown rice flour) 1 teaspoon baking powder ⅓ cup canola oil ⅓ cup applesauce 1 egg 2 tablespoons honey […]
Meet Pippa. The 7-month-old Australian Cattle Dog-mix was brought in as a frightened stray on Halloween. She had been found wandering near a gas station in Pennsdale. Nervous and unsure, she would move as far back into her kennel as she could get when a human […]
The Lycoming County SPCA was featured on WNEP Tuesday evening for #GivingTuesday! Check out the full story here: A big thank you to WNEP and to Mayor Gabriel Campana. Campana presented us with a mayoral proclamation that Tuesday was declared a “city-wide day of giving.”
For the final story in our #GivingTuesday series, we present to you one of our happiest adoption stories from 2018. She had been here for over a year. Little Jane, or “Little Hippo,” as she was affectionally called, was wary of humans and was having a […]
End-of-life care. What a difficult topic, whether it involves humans or pets. On any given day, if you were to walk around the adoption floor at the Lycoming County SPCA, what would you see? Probably a large number of younger pets, full of vim and vigor. They tend […]
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Our mission is to protect all domestic animals by: providing shelter, emergency treatment, investigation and prosecution of cruelty or abuse complaints; adoption and counseling; education programs; and humane care through Lycoming County.