Hi Alexi,
I'm Aimee with Animal Assist. I volunteer with the Estill County animal shelter in Estill County KY, a high-rate kill shelter in rural KY. When I started helping out there a couple of months ago, every single week healthy dogs and puppies and cats and kittens were euthanized for various reasons. Puppies were never held, cats and kittens still aren't. Anything that looked mangy or had the slightest issue was pts. Everything that he been at the shelter the required amount of time 5-7 days (less for puppies, cats, kittens, and owner turn-ins) was pts every single Friday.
They'd taken in over 1300 dogs and only a couple hundred had been saved. The cat situation was much more dire. Since I've been working with them, making a website to feature the dogs, and helping to find transport things are CHANGING there! The shelter director calls me now when puppies come in, or cats are brought in. She holds animals over for me if I'm working on transport for them, and healthy, friendly animals are no longer being pts! I have a huge group of dogs I need to get out of here this weekend or next. 7 tiny puppies are going to a foster for a rescue in Collegeville, PA. 1 dog is going to her forever home in Lakeville, PA. 1 cat is going to her forever home in Brooklyn, NY. 2 adult AKC registered boxers (one very pregnant with lab puppies), a Redbone Coonhound puppy with a heart murmur, 2 6-wks old tiny puppies, and 2 10 wks old puppies are going all the way on to Albany. If you can help us in any way at all to get these animals from here to there, it would save so many lives!
In just the two months I've been there, we've adopted or sent to rescue more than 45 animals! That doesn't count these 17 animals that desperately need to get OUT because we are busting at the seams. Our two fosters are crazy full, and our shelter is getting to the point that the director has warned me that if anything big comes in this week, we'll have to "clean out" "What I'm asking is that anyone at ALL who can help, to PLEASE help me get these animals to safety. I have set up potential legs for the transport shown below. I'd love to get them out of here this weekend, but I'm betting it will have to be next weekend (21st and 22nd) to get it done.
My contact info is aimee@animal-assist.org (@animal-assist.org)
I'm Aimee with Animal Assist. I volunteer with the Estill County animal shelter in Estill County KY, a high-rate kill shelter in rural KY. When I started helping out there a couple of months ago, every single week healthy dogs and puppies and cats and kittens were euthanized for various reasons. Puppies were never held, cats and kittens still aren't. Anything that looked mangy or had the slightest issue was pts. Everything that he been at the shelter the required amount of time 5-7 days (less for puppies, cats, kittens, and owner turn-ins) was pts every single Friday.
They'd taken in over 1300 dogs and only a couple hundred had been saved. The cat situation was much more dire. Since I've been working with them, making a website to feature the dogs, and helping to find transport things are CHANGING there! The shelter director calls me now when puppies come in, or cats are brought in. She holds animals over for me if I'm working on transport for them, and healthy, friendly animals are no longer being pts! I have a huge group of dogs I need to get out of here this weekend or next. 7 tiny puppies are going to a foster for a rescue in Collegeville, PA. 1 dog is going to her forever home in Lakeville, PA. 1 cat is going to her forever home in Brooklyn, NY. 2 adult AKC registered boxers (one very pregnant with lab puppies), a Redbone Coonhound puppy with a heart murmur, 2 6-wks old tiny puppies, and 2 10 wks old puppies are going all the way on to Albany. If you can help us in any way at all to get these animals from here to there, it would save so many lives!
In just the two months I've been there, we've adopted or sent to rescue more than 45 animals! That doesn't count these 17 animals that desperately need to get OUT because we are busting at the seams. Our two fosters are crazy full, and our shelter is getting to the point that the director has warned me that if anything big comes in this week, we'll have to "clean out" "What I'm asking is that anyone at ALL who can help, to PLEASE help me get these animals to safety. I have set up potential legs for the transport shown below. I'd love to get them out of here this weekend, but I'm betting it will have to be next weekend (21st and 22nd) to get it done.
My contact info is aimee@animal-assist.org (@animal-assist.org)
Thanks
Aimee
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