PORTSMOUTH
The Portsmouth Humane Society has agreed to continue to serve as the city’s pound.
The city has worked out a contract that will pay the humane society $350,000 for the next two years to care for the animals brought in by Portsmouth’s animal control officers.
Humane society leaders had voted earlier this year not to renew the contract, because they said the city was not paying enough for the number of animals that were brought to the Frederick Boulevard facility.
The organization had received $276,000 in the previous contract.
The humane society has also agreed to take responsibility for meeting state requirements for a pound, Portsmouth Police Chief Edward G. Hargis said. The state cited the facility earlier this year for structural deficiencies.
The arrangement will also give the city a two-year window to find a long-term solution, Hargis said.
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Make the place bigger. Have a "Giveaway Event" or a "Pets for Arthritis Patients" or a "Free Pets for Honor Roll Students" or a "Pets for Loneliness" cause. Use the imagination, and find good ways to get rid of the healthy cats, and if possible take care of the sick ones. If you need volunteers, publicize it. I like animals too! Do some "free" fundraiser events with live bands or pet ownership classes or something. That could so be "marketed" to kids.
Need to check out the policies
on them excepting stray animals. I have a friend that found a very sick cat, called to make sure that they could bring it in and was told that they were getting ready to leave, then was told they really did not have room, my friend is not a cat person and told them that if they did not take the cat, he was going to drop it off in the woods, and they told him that was fine. I could not believe this, I mean the cat would probably have had to be put down as it had tumors growing that were visible and they were told this. The cat was taken to another shelter.
What's hard to believe?
Have you been to the shelter? Most of the cages have two cats to a cage, and at least a dozen loose roaming around the room. They've had to house animals in the Director's office AND in the bathroom before. They are over capacity. They can't afford to take care of the healthy animals they already have. They can't be responsible for every sick animal everyone finds on the street. Their goal is to take care of animals in the facility until they're adopted. They certainly don't have room to quarantine a sick cat and pay for all its expenses until it gets put down. Next time, the appropriate step is to call Animal Control.
Hello!
Animal Control is going to take them to the city pound aka the Humane Society shelter.