![]() By the time they're even able to get those animals in to be spayed and neutered, ‘Are we pregnant now? Have we impregnated someone else now?’” In Grant County, if you, Joe Blow customer, try and call up (a veterinarian) and just say, ‘I need to get my animal spayed or neutered,’ you're looking at $200, $400. “Partnering with Washington State University has really been an awesome blessing because the spaying and neutering of animals is so expensive. One is its working relationship with the veterinary college at WSU, which does the spaying and neutering for the shelter. Grant County Animal Outreach may not have enough room, but it does have a couple of things going for it. Many of the staff do the same thing, fostering animals who have been too badly hurt or traumatized to leave at the shelter, Vanerstrom said. She was thrown out of the car, her face was all mangled, and her side and her front leg, and she was a hot mess, but she's doing better.” She was under two pounds, was basically knocking on the Rainbow Bridge, but she's healing from her wounds. So they rushed her immediately to us, (and) we rushed her immediately to the vet. “(The sheriff’s office) stopped on the road to pick little Puppet up, and she was still alive. “The dog that I have in my Jeep right now is a foster dog,” Vanerstrom said. When shelter staff arrived, the dog was lying across the road where it had been hit by a car. One dog had been left outside tied to what appeared to be an engine block with an extension cord around its neck, Vanerstrom said. We've had animals tied up to the front gate.” We can drive up to the shelter and have animals be tossed over the fence. And when COVID kind of ended somewhat, everybody got rid of said animals and left them with us. “But I don't think any of those animals were ever spayed or neutered. “When COVID hit, everybody and their mom went and got a dog, which is fabulous,” she said. But the Grant County Sheriff’s Office and the police departments continue to drop off animals they’ve picked up, and some pet owners do the same. Vanerstrom added that she wasn’t sure how many animals the shelter currently has, as it fluctuates from day to day. “We are supposed to be at 45, I think, is our max,” Vanerstrom said. And we were told by one of the assessors that they have a radius that goes around them where you cannot touch anything.”Ī small building combined with a growing population of animals makes for some very cramped quarters. That makes it hard because a lot of people can see that and be like, ‘Hey, why aren't you guys building here?’ But we have two little ground squirrel nests in there. No one, of course, is going to want to buy it, because you can't build on it. “That was donated to us, and come to find out, we have some endangered ground squirrels living on it,” Vanerstrom said. The shelter actually owns another patch of land, about 2.83 acres, about a quarter-mile up the road but can’t expand onto it, ironically because of animals. The 4,886-square-foot shelter sits on a 0.61-acre tract of land owned by the City of Moses Lake, off in a corner of the Larson Wastewater Treatment Plant. “And there haven't been any updates on it, so it's kind of in dire straits.” “The facility was built in World War II,” said Kar Vanerstrom, GCAO’s vice president. We are very proud of the fact that we have not euthanized healthy, adoptable animals since April 2008, but we are struggling right now and need volunteers in order to stay open and take care of all of the animals that we have.MOSES LAKE - Grant County Animal Outreach has run out of room. We are an open-access facility, meaning that we must take in every animal that comes to our doorway. ![]() The Grant County Animal Shelter is a county-funded, county-operated shelter that takes in all dogs and cats that comes to its doorway. The mission of the Grant County Animal Shelter is to provide a safe, clean environment for the abandoned, abused, stray, and otherwise unwanted dogs and cats from Grant County and other area shelters that come to us while they are waiting to find loving forever homes and to find a loving forever home for every animal that comes through our door. ![]() This organization has no active opportunities.įind volunteer opportunities from thousands of organizations that need your help. ![]()
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