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TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 2004
Animal shelter to build
new pet adoption center
BYAYOFEMI KIRBY
STAFF WRITER
As hundreds of cats and dogs
await adoption at the Orange
County Animal Shelter, anew cen
ter is being built to make room to
save hundreds more.
To provide additional space for
animals that arrive every day at the
shelter, the Animal Protection
Society is building a 5,600-square
foot facility off of Nick’s Road in
western Orange County.
The new adoption center will
serve as temporary housing for
animals that have been chosen for
adoption.
APS board member John Wise
said construction for the the new
adoption center, scheduled to open
in late spring, began last week.
“The reason we are building it is
to save the lives of more animals
than we are saving now,” Wise
said.
“The ability to adopt animals is
hindered by space. It will provide
space for adopted animals to leave
the shelter and opens up space to
display animals to the public that
we otherwise wouldn’t have the
chance to display.”
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When animals are adopted, it
takes four to six days to process
them and complete paperwork,
adoption counseling, neuter/spay
surgery and recovery.
The new center will serve as a
“halfway home” for these animals
as they undergo this process.
The center is the final addition
to the society’s Felicity Latane
Animal Sanctuary.
Located on 57 acres of land, it
comprises a neuter clinic, a learn
ing center, a dog training facility
and a dog park.
The location of so many facili
ties in one place creates an animal
“campus” environment that serves
many different needs of animals in
the county, Wise said.
As of March 1, there were about
341 animals in the Orange County
Animal Shelter facility on Airport
Road.
“It stays right around that num
ber,” said Amy Eller, customer rela
tions manager for the shelter. “It
depends on the weather. When it’s
hot we get more and more ani
mals.”
The new adoption center, which
will cost about $550,000 to build,
is being funded through dona
tions.
“We’ve asked people for sup
port,” Wise said.
“People are really interested in
helping getting animals here
adopted and lowering the
euthanasia rate in our communi
ty”
The shelter makes an effort to
euthanize only animals that are
trained to fight or are fatally ill, but
once the shelter gets full, the ani
mals that have been there the
longest are euthanized.
“We don’t have a specific time
limit,” Eller said.
“If the animal is stray, we are
obligated to keep them for seven
days, but they usually stay here
until they are able to find a home.”
Animals within the Chapel Hill
town limits are brought to the shel
ter by the Orange County’ Animal
Control and by the public.
“People in our community are
very generous and have shown the
willingness to help solve this prob
lem,” Wise said.
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Premier may pull troops out of Iraq
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MADRID, Spain Spain’s
incoming prime minister pledged
Monday to bring Spanish troops
home from Iraq unless the United
Nations takes control there, harsh
ly criticizing the U.S.-led war even
as he promised to maintain good
relations with Washington.
A day after his Socialists swept
Spain’s ruling conservatives from
power in elections overshadowed
by terrorist bombings, Jose Luis
Rodriguez Zapatero also promised
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government that backed
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from office.
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charges that Aznar made Spain a
target for terrorists by supporting
the war and that his government
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