FLORENCE – A clean kennel makes for a happy dog… That goes for cats too! This past weekend was Spring Cleaning Day at the Florence-Lauderdale Animal Shelter. Volunteers showed up at the facility to help get the place ready for the Summer season. That’s when most stray dogs and cats get picked up. So it’s important that the critters have a clean place to stay until their owners come by to retrieve them, or until the animals can be adopted. After all, a clean critter is a happy critter!
Sgt. Melissa Beasley
Dianne Letson, a volunteer with “Friends of the Florence Lauderdale Animal Shelter” told the Quad-Cities Daily, “We decided at our last meeting that it was time to give everything here a good deep-cleaning. We’re coming into the time of year where the shelter will start getting a massive influx of puppy litters. So we turned out today. Lots of new volunteers are showing up here to find out what jobs are suited for them. So they grab the water hose, some cleaning stuff like soap or bleach, and get busy making this place nice.” She added that the organization is always looking for volunteers.
Sgt. Melissa Beasley of the Florence Police Department runs the place. She described
Dianne Letson
what activities happen there, “Today is really a normal Saturday for us. Like the Florence Police Department, we never close. We have to come in every day and clean the kennels, feed the dogs and cats and give medications to the one who requite them. And the volunteers come in on the weekends and help us. I’ll tell you this, if it weren’t for them, it would be tough! If anybody wants to come in and volunteer to help at the shelter, they should just stop by and fill out a short piece of paperwork. No appointment is necessary.”
Photos by Sheri Wiggins
