The Douglas County Animal Shelter reopened on Friday. The shelter had been quarintined for over two weeks as a result of distemper. The shelter says 67 dogs were euthanized. I would think that whomever took dogs home BEFORE the shelter discovered the distemper, however, might have also had to put their dogs to sleep, as a few people commented they had to do. So actually, at least 70 dogs died as a result of the distemper outbreak.
I thought about something, too--when the Humane Society was running the shelter, was there ever a distemper outbreak?
Please read this to learn more about distemper in shelters:
ReplyDeleteThe Blue Solution: No Solution At All
http://nicolesica.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/the-blue-solution/
Read the comments too.