WARL has now taken over thirty dogs! Animal Friends has no more dogs for the time being. We are nearing completion of our new and vastly upgraded companion animal shelter. The new facility features a complete fire supression system, a massive electrical upgrade, multiple cat rooms, a complete surgical suite, meet and greet rooms for adoptions, a large space for small animals like birds and fish, an administrative area, six isolation quarantine kennels, more than thirty dog kennels, four upgraded rooms for mother dogs with puppies, and much more! We will be spending the quiet month of August cleaning the site and putting the finishing touches on the building. Our biggest holdup at the moment is connecting the electrical system to the grid, which is waiting for some distribution components.
We will be contacting our volunteer corps for help as soon as the air condition is on! As the management staff returns from the summer holidays, we will begin getting all of our programs back on line. We hope everyone is as excited as we are. Animal Friends is nearly back, and we're going to be bigger and better than ever.
Here are links to an articles about the dog transport effort
http://wamu.org/news/10/04/29.php#34137
http://www.news8.net/news/stories/0410/730661.html
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/local/dogs-long-journey-from-kuwait-to-dc-042810
