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Everman explores $2 million animal shelter as dog intakes spike
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Everman officials discussed building a new $2 million municipal animal shelter after a sharp rise in dog intakes and improved adoption efforts; no funding has been committed and the project remains at the discussion stage.
Everman is considering construction of a new municipal animal shelter estimated at $2,000,000 after animal services staff reported a recent surge in dog intakes and stronger adoption activity, city staff told the Everman City Council during a presentation Tuesday.
Ray, a municipal animal services representative, told the council that intakes have climbed sharply, saying, "We took in 91 dogs, which the most we ever had prior to that was 67." He said the shelter hit a 93 percent live-release rate in April but had a low month in March with "72%" and that average length of stay for dogs is about "5 and, 5 and, 5, 6 days."
The uptick in intake coincided with expanded outreach and onsite adoption efforts led by animal-shelter staff. Mindy Henry, animal-shelter staff working on adoptions, has been running offsite events and designing the shelter's new mobile adoption center, which arrived this year. Henry said the mobile…
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