While there’s enough space to run the Lakeshore Humane Society, the building has run its course.
That’s the message from Executive Director Tina Nichols who gave Seehafer News a tour of the facility.
“There are broken floor tiles, there’s cracks in the ceiling, there’s so many different things,” she states. “And there’s not a spot in this building that isn’t used for storage.”
That includes food for the animals in different areas, pet bathing areas and isolation kennels in the same place, and the cat and dog areas being very close to each other, which isn’t good for them.
“Cats that can get stressed out easily and dogs as well,” she described. “And our shelter is so small that many times they are overlapping their areas. So, the cats have dogs going by them at all times and vice-versa.”
There can’t be an addition added to the building either because of the way it’s shaped.
Because of that, the organization is now raising money for a brand-new humane society on some land the city council approved two months ago.
They held an awareness campaign at the Inn on Maritime Bay a couple of weeks ago, but they will hold a second one in June at the shelter so people can see what the shelter is like.
The shelter is off to a good start, getting about half of what they need for the expected $3.5 million for a new building.