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Commissioners hear humane society and dog warden on strained capacity, dog-tag revenue and shelter practices
Summary
County and humane society representatives described full kennels, a rise in unreclaimed stray dogs and the county's cooperative arrangement with the humane society; the meeting reviewed tag fees, impound charges and transfer procedures under the Ohio Revised Code.
A county discussion on Thursday detailed the existing operations and partnership between Williams County's dog warden and the local humane society, and raised capacity and funding concerns as stray intakes rise. A humane society representative said the shelter recently ran an adoption promotion that momentarily reduced kennel counts to about four dogs but within days returned to roughly 26 animals because of unreclaimed strays and new intakes. "We have 20 kennels, but when we started that dog sale, we had dogs in our meet and greet rooms. We had dogs,…
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