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Meet Our CEO

CEO Hal Warner has over 20 years of non-profit management experience in Health and Family Services where he has specialized in operations, financial development, marketing, and volunteer programs. Hal has extensive experience in both annual and capital campaigns, strategic planning, and community development. In his role at the Lehigh Valley Humane Society, Hal is responsible for the overall operations of the shelter, community involvement, and fundraising. Hal has a passion for service, teambuilding, and animals. He is a resident of the Lehigh Valley and lives with his wife Shellie, two dogs (Oliver and Gabby), and four cats (Zipper, Lily, Barbara, and Six).

Message From the CEO

Dear fellow animal lovers,

Thank you so much for a successful, life-saving year in 2025. While ‘25 proved to be a great deal more challenging than we anticipated our staff, volunteers and donors all rose to the challenge.

In 2025, LVHS had almost 3,000 animals come into our shelter as stray, abandoned or surrendered animals. That is almost 9 new animals coming into our shelter every day. Each one of these animals receives top-of-the-line medical care in our clinic and hours of walking time every week by our volunteers and staff while our adoption team works to find homes for them immediately. Because of this amazing team, our live release rate has exceeded the No Kill measurement of 90% once again. Best Friends recognized this achievement by officially designating LVHS as a No Kill Animal Shelter in July 2025.

For those that doubt our numbers, I want to reiterate that we use a “noses in versus noses out” measurement. We count EVERY animal that comes through our doors.

We continue to work with 12 municipalities to provide quality animal control services as well as TNVR (trap-neuter-vaccine-return) for those communities that need community cat services.

Our Community Vet Clinic continues to grow to meet the ever-increasing demands of our community. To meet these needs, we renovated an additional room of our building and opened our new Dental & Surgery Suite!

2026 will be another amazing year for LVHS. We will be launching our new mobile vet clinic, which will allow us to bring high quality, low cost medical services to those areas that may not be able to reach us.

We will continue to work with municipalities to address TNVR needs, veterinary deserts and explore creative programs to further reduce pet homelessness.

We are proud to serve the Lehigh Valley and as always will look to our community to work with us to improve the lives of animals and the people who love them.

Hal Warner
President & CEO