Doing a great job. Need more support, $$, and community awareness!
Pros: The staff truly care for the animals. They are helpful and very knowledgeable, and work with Rescue Organizations to move as many dogs out as possible to that venue.
Cons: Not enough space. Not enough animal control officers.
Reviewed: 7 months ago -- Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Pet Service Reviewed by: KatrinaCretsinger
Supporting Shelter: Washington county-Johnson City Animal Control Center
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This is an awesome shelter. The staff is great. They keep as many as they can as long as they can. This work is not just a job to them; they love the animals that come in as long as they're with them. I have seen hamsters, guinea pigs, rabbits, and too many cats and dogs, puppies and kittens, each time I have visited.
The animals are always well fed and have fresh bedding and toys. This shelter is CLEAN. It does need to be relocated to a much larger area where more kennels can be added and a larger place to walk the dogs can be added. It has been in the same place for decades when it was only maybe a dozen kennels. MUCH has been done over the years. However, it serves over 112,000 people in a 326 square mile area. Thirty to forty kennels are certainly not enough to maintain the flow of unwanted pets that stream through daily.
The staff is diligent in taking adoptees to the local Petsmart for showing and adopting. They work with local vets who provide health care and spay/neuter services. They host low cost rabies clinics several times each year along with offering the usual annual shots at a low cost. They do the best they can with maintaining an updated website of available pets. And each week, they have a cat and a dog featured as the pet of the week in the local newspaper.
I adopted my first dog, Ashely, a chow retriever mix, from the Washington County Animal Shelter. I never regretted it. She grew up with my son and lived to be 10.5 years old. She was the smarted dog I've ever owned and was a fearsome guard dog. Years ago, I "rescued" dogs from there and readopted them out.
Currently, I live about 2.5 miles from the city dump. Everytime I drive by and see the large blue flame burning in the day or night, I think of the innumerable unwanted, unadopted cats and dogs, babies and adults, who were euthanized that day at the shelter. They are being incinerated at the dump right in our midst. It hurts my feelings that administering death must be a daily part of the job description for the shelter staff. And I imagine it hurts them too. Sadly, three to four million unwanted pets are put to death in the United States yearly.
Please consider our shelter for updating. The staff deserves it and the animals need all the help they can get.
The animals are always well fed and have fresh bedding and toys. This shelter is CLEAN. It does need to be relocated to a much larger area where more kennels can be added and a larger place to walk the dogs can be added. It has been in the same place for decades when it was only maybe a dozen kennels. MUCH has been done over the years. However, it serves over 112,000 people in a 326 square mile area. Thirty to forty kennels are certainly not enough to maintain the flow of unwanted pets that stream through daily.
The staff is diligent in taking adoptees to the local Petsmart for showing and adopting. They work with local vets who provide health care and spay/neuter services. They host low cost rabies clinics several times each year along with offering the usual annual shots at a low cost. They do the best they can with maintaining an updated website of available pets. And each week, they have a cat and a dog featured as the pet of the week in the local newspaper.
I adopted my first dog, Ashely, a chow retriever mix, from the Washington County Animal Shelter. I never regretted it. She grew up with my son and lived to be 10.5 years old. She was the smarted dog I've ever owned and was a fearsome guard dog. Years ago, I "rescued" dogs from there and readopted them out.
Currently, I live about 2.5 miles from the city dump. Everytime I drive by and see the large blue flame burning in the day or night, I think of the innumerable unwanted, unadopted cats and dogs, babies and adults, who were euthanized that day at the shelter. They are being incinerated at the dump right in our midst. It hurts my feelings that administering death must be a daily part of the job description for the shelter staff. And I imagine it hurts them too. Sadly, three to four million unwanted pets are put to death in the United States yearly.
Please consider our shelter for updating. The staff deserves it and the animals need all the help they can get.
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