Shelter Tour Report: Focus on Solutions
| | | | |

Shelter Tour Report: Focus on Solutions

We just returned from a week traveling in the south visiting nine shelters in four states. It was a great trip and as always, we met incredible heroes, interesting locals, and so many beautiful dogs. I can’t wait to tell you about them in the coming months on the blog (after I finish telling you…

Floyd County Kentucky Shelter Operates on Just $2000 a Month

Floyd County Kentucky Shelter Operates on Just $2000 a Month

Two thousand dollars a month. That’s how much Floyd County, Kentucky pays for the Floyd County Animal Shelter. That number includes the salaries of all three people who work there ($7.25/hour), the food, the utilities, the medical, everything for the approximately 900 animals that come through the shelter each year. When we visited there were…

A Public Open-intake Shelter That is Something Special

A Public Open-intake Shelter That is Something Special

When we arrived at our first stop in Kentucky was at the Daviess County Animal Shelter, a group of middle school students was gathered in the parking lot waiting to tour the shelter. This was the first clue that this public open-intake shelter is something special. DCAS handles about three thousand animals a year. That…

Smart Sheltering for Small Municipalities

Smart Sheltering for Small Municipalities

Huntington Cabell Wayne Animal Control shelter in Huntington, West Virginia serves the residents of Huntington City and Cabell and Wayne Counties, about 100,000 people. We are big fans of municipalities that join together to pool resources and create a quality shelter like HCWAC. It’s smart sheltering. The shelter began in 1979 and functioned like a…