Right now, ACCT is isolating the sick dogs from intakes, but they're running out of space. By Monday, April 24, the shelter has to place at least 70 dogs ideally in homes without other dogs due to the flu.
The Animal Care and Control Team is desperately trying to clear its shelter of at least 70 dogs after canine flu ripped through its Hunting Park location.
The nonprofit needs to create a second shelter temporarily to house dogs exposed to canine flu for up to a month. Right now, they are isolating the sick dogs from intakes, but they're running out of space. By Monday, April 24, the shelter has to place at least 70 dogs ideally in homes without other dogs due to the flu.The shelter will be completely closed for dog intake on Monday, April 24, and Tuesday, April 25, to allow for the dogs to be moved, and the building to be cleaned.
ACCT Executive Director Sarah Barnett expressed the dire need, sharing the worst-case scenario: "I don't foresee us having to euthanize 70 dogs. Do I foresee some dogs having to be euthanized? Probably, but we're really trying hard to do what we can to get the dogs out before then." ACCT takes in about 100 dogs a week. As the only intake shelter in the region, they take in every animal including an eight-foot alligator that was surrendered just Monday morning."There's not another shelter that's going to be able to take them in that can absorb that population. We need to be there for those dogs, hit by a car, injured, sick," said Barnett.Other area intakes are struggling with dog flu issues too.
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