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General News: Animal Shelter Improvements Proposed
October 04, 2007
Cornwall resident Tom DiCarrado cares passionately about dogs – about all animals, really -- and at Monday evening’s town board work session he proposed several changes to the current dog control program.
DiCarrado told the board about the work of the newly-formed Friends of the Cornwall Animal Shelter that aims to help animals when they are in the town’s care as well as move them more quickly into adoption.
The Friends, he said, brought in an animal behaviorist to see if three dogs in the Cornwall shelter were adoptable. One of them, Dierdra, passed the test. The other two failed and were euthanized, he said.
DiCarrado explained that once a dog has been identified as adoptable, his group would like to work with the community and place dogs in temporary foster care and adoption.
“When people want a dog they should think of our shelter first,” DiCarrado said later. He proposed building a dog run with donated labor so the shelter dogs could burn off energy and make a better impression on a potential owner.
Supervisor Dick Randazzo noted that the presence of the shelter behind the town hall is an annoyance, especially when the pound is full of barking dogs. The building sits near the children’s park playground and steps away from private residences.
The Friends of the Cornwall Animal Shelter, a not-for-profit state entity, paid for the first visit by the animal behaviorist but DiCarrado would like the town to invest in future consultations. He proposed an increase from $3,000 to $5,000 in the town’s animal control budget and suggested that higher fines and boarding fees could recoup some of this increase.
Much of the current budget, DiCarraado told the town board, goes for transportation, food, and medical care for the dogs. He suggested that his group, which already has 45 members since its founding in June, could raise money to cover the cost of food for the dogs if the town money was re-directed to pay for ways of moving the dogs through the shelter and, ideally, into a private home.
Town board supervisor Dick Randazzo asked the town lawyer to study the issue and further discussion on the proposal is expected.
To learn more about the Friends of the Cornwall Animal Shelter, email [email protected].
Meet the dogs currently at the shelter here.
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