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Advocates tell Nevada County board new, larger shelter design needed to avoid harming animals
Summary
Sammy's Friends and a county behavior consultant urged the Board of Supervisors to back a new animal shelter built to modern behavioral standards, warning that the current facility and the proposed kennel count risk overcrowding and worsen animal welfare.
Lynn Hodson, executive director of Sammy's Friends, urged the Nevada County Board of Supervisors to support construction of a modern animal shelter that would enable "socially conscious" care and faster placements. Hodson told the board the nonprofit and county staff are building a partnership to expand foster and behavioral-support programs but said the current building limits that work.
"Simply put, the work we are trying to do together has outgrown the building we're trying to do it in," Hodson said during general public…
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