By: Lydia Crawley
The Parsons Advocate
“We continue to remain busy at the shelter,” Tucker County Animal Shelter Director Bailey Falls said.
Falls updated the Tucker County Commission on the status of the Animal Shelter at the Commission’s meeting.
According to Falls, the shelter is currently taking in more animals than are being adopted out. “We have more intakes than outcomes right now,” Falls said. “We have 54 intakes since July 1 and we’re at 61 animals in our care. So, there are more coming in then there are going out. Which is pretty typical for this time of year.”
Falls said the focus has been on finding the incoming animals foster homes until they can be adopted. “So, we’re just trying to focus a lot on getting them into foster homes. We have a lot more in foster homes than we have in the shelter which has been very helpful navigating this in-between being a little short on part time employees. So, we’re just getting through and doing what we can.”
Another way the shelter is dealing with the influx of new pets is through their partners, according to Falls. “We have a couple of transports,” Falls said. “We finally have room with Rescue Partners so we have some scheduled transports in the next week to make some space.”
Falls also updated the Commission on the progress of the County’s Spay/Neuter Program. “We’ve issued 205 vouchers for the county so far with our grant we received with the spay/neuter program. So, that’s awesome. People are using them. We are getting invoices for those and processing them through the state. It’s been really good to be able to make some progress on that and it’s also allowed us to, if somebody comes up and has a mom cat and some kittens, they have some homes they want the kittens to go to. So, ok, lets get some vouchers and that way they are not physically coming into the shelter. We’re spending less money and we’re making sure they are not reproducing.”
According to Falls, the Animal Shelter will be set up at the Tucker County Fair with an adoption booth.
“We were at the Tucker County Fair, as well, trying to get some adoptions in the community,” Falls said.
The next meeting of the Tucker County Commission will be held August 23rd at 6 p.m. at the Tucker County Courthouse Old Courtroom in Parsons.