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Monday, February 23, 2009

We need a barn!!

The day started off great - we are in the middle of developing a master plan for the renovation/expansion of our facility. We reviewed every facet of our operation, how it's working (or not working) now and what we would like it to be. One element we lack is holding for livestock. We talked about how many horses, cows, sheep, goats and pigs we handle in a year, how many at one time and what we do with them. We finished at 2:30pm. In a "be careful what you say" moment, we got a call to get a cow out of the middle of a road AND a call to pick up 20 stray sheep and goats. Where's a barn when you need it!!! Luckily the cow had made its way back home but the sheep and goats are currently being held in temporary quarters at the shelter. We'll decide what to do with them tomorrow. We were called about three dogs at a home that was burning this morning. The resident was not home so we took the dogs to the shelter and made them as comfortable as possible. Luckily they had rabies tags so we were able to call the veterinarian and get the name and cell number of the owner. Our vet tech called and the owner answered. "This is *** and we have your dogs safe at the shelter," she said. "Why do you have my dogs?" said the owner. A few more questions made it obvious that the owner had no idea his home had just burned down! At least he found out his animals were safe and then that his house was gone rather than finding out about the fire and wondering if his animals were okay. But a rough day for our staff person!

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