By Alexis Johnson
The Lewis Clark Animal Shelter has a mission to spay and neuter animals in order to help rehabilitate them back into the community.
Currently, the Lewis Clark Animal Shelter takes care of 85 animals, including fosters. The shelter offers many resources to new adoptees, including coaching for new parents.
They openly advocate using Fearfree.net as a resource to help animals that come from harsh backgrounds to get rehabilitated.
The shelter is in need of volunteers that are willing to work with animals, make treats, and offer new ideas as to what the shelter can do to help animals and pet parents.
Since there is always such a high capacity of animals within care, most animals don’t receive one on one time for the enrichment and the socializing that they need. Some ideas they have introduced include the enrichment rooms (replicating living rooms in homes and helping the animals acclimate to a normal life).
The Lewis Clark Animal Shelter is also looking for fosters willing to keep animals until they are old enough to get fixed within their first stages of life.
Another thing that the Lewis Clark Animal Shelter strives to accomplish is lowering the euthanization rate of animals. They do this by keeping animals that may be labeled as aggressive, and working with them.
Similarly, the shelter keeps sick animals quarantined instead of putting them down, and offers their sick animals treatment as well.
What were once death sentences, the Lewis Clark Animal Shelter has helped many animals recover and have a new chance at life.
