The Danville Area Humane Society announced Monday that it plans to build a no-kill adoption center for Danville and Pittsylvania County next to the existing city animal shelter.
Executive Director Paulette Dean said she believes the new adoption center will help solve the overpopulation problem and decrease the need for euthanasia of animals.
“We will never turn away any animal,” Dean said. This will give us a wonderful opportunity to help even more animals.”
The center is expected to cost $750,000 and a capital campaign is underway to raise funds. Ar-eas of the center will be named after donors.
The plans include two large colony cat rooms, 20 additional dog runs, a room for small compan-ion animals like hamsters or birds, adoption counseling rooms and other administrative areas.
The open-admission shelter will evaluate dogs and cats medical and behavioral issues. If ac-cepted into the adoption center, they will be held until they are adopted or transferred to another group.
“Like the anti-tethering ordinance, this adoption center is an idea whose time has come,” said Lynn Shelton, president of the board of directors. “We believe that the community will support the capital campaign, knowing that they will be helping thousands and thousands of animals in Dan-ville and Pittsylvania County.”
The adoption center and expanded shelter will be given as a gift to the city. Danville City Council members were notified of the plan through an e-mail announcement Friday.
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