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Residents and supervisors debate need for regional animal shelter, some oppose municipal shelter model
Summary
Speakers urged the county to prioritize a Warren–Washington regional animal shelter to improve public safety, disease control and reunification; supervisors expressed mixed views, with cautions about municipal 'kill-shelter' models and a failed motion elsewhere to set a county animal registry hearing.
Multiple residents urged the Washington County Board of Supervisors on April 17 to prioritize a modern regional animal shelter serving Washington and neighboring Warren counties. Terry Supernot told supervisors the absence of an adequately resourced shelter poses public-safety and public-health risks—citing bites, disease spread and strain on first responders—and argued a regional shelter would be more cost-effective long term by…
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