There are also foster programs through the Seattle Animal Shelter (SAS) and numerous private rescue groups. We signed up with the Progressive Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) since its shelter is close to our North Seattle home. Instead, we decided to foster cats and dogs from a local rescue group and help out one animal at a time. We were not ready to commit to another dog. My husband, Eric, and I had presided over a two-dog, one-cat household for a long time before one of our dogs passed away in May. Originally published in City Living Seattle and the Queen Anne News She also writes a blog called “Sniffing Out Home: A Search for Animal Welfare Solutions” at Mo, a foster cat from PAWS To foster, volunteer or adopt at the Seattle Animal Shelter, visit To learn more or donate to the Seattle Animal Shelter Foundation, visit CHRISTIE LAGALLY is a writer and the editor of Living Humane, a news site about humane-conscious lifestyles at.
in Interbay, and follow the shelter’s progress as it works to make our local animal shelter increasingly comfortable, welcoming and safe for animals and people alike. You can visit the Seattle Animal Shelter at 2061 15th Ave. In the meantime, animals in foster care and cats residing at the shelter are available for adoption. Once phase one renovations are complete, the shelter will host a reopening event watch its website for more information. Jordan said that people have been very understanding when they find they cannot surrender an animal during the renovation. In the event the animal’s owners cannot be located, SAS has partnered with local shelters, including Seattle Humane Society and PAWS, which have offered to take in surrenders during the temporary intake closure. You can also post the found animal on local blogs or put up flyers around the neighborhood to find the owner. With this information, list the animal on SAS’s Reuniting Owners with Missing Pets System (ROMPS) online database ( /dea/romps). If you find a stray, you are asked to hold the animal and check for tags or ask a local veterinary office to scan for a microchip. Upgrades to this area will include a more enriching space for these special creatures.ĭuring kennel renovations, the shelter is not taking in animals, but it has provided the public with alternatives for dealing with stray or surrendered animals. The space is not ideal for smaller furry friends that are primarily housed in larger rodent cages placed along the walls. Additionally, upgrades to the shelter’s kitchen and laundry areas are planned.ĭonations are needed to help fund phase three, and the shelter will work with the Seattle Animal Shelter Foundation for longer-term planning.Ĭurrently, critters are housed in four dog kennels separate from the main kennel room. Rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs and other small critters will be the beneficiaries of phase three of the renovation project. “Our goal is to create a healthy and happy environment as a whole,” Jordan said. Jordan explained that improving ventilation should help reduce incidences of upper respiratory infections (URI) that commonly inflict dogs and cats residing in shelters or kennels. Phase two of the shelter renovations will include upgrades to the facility’s HVAC system. Renovations are expected to be complete by mid-December. The newly renovated kennels will have glass doors with a visual barrier to calm dogs that are stressed by seeing other dogs nearby. Jordan explained that small dogs would often slip past the poles in the kennels hence, the area was not safe for all dogs in residence.
The chain-link doors on each kennel were removed, and all poles and sound baffling were taken out so the floors and walls could be resurfaced. The kennel upgrades were designed by SHKS Architects in Seattle, and major work was well underway by mid-November. Live-release rates are a measure of how many animals can be successfully returned to their owner or re-homed upon arrival at the shelter, and this includes animals that are too sick or injured and must be euthanized. But, today, the shelter boasts a 93-percent live-release rate for animals coming into their care. Seattle Animal Shelter director Don Jordan explained that the kennels were once designed for a shelter where dogs did not stay long. As part of phase one, cat condos were purchased for the front corridor of the shelter just last year, and the in-progress kennel upgrades are designed to make the space more dog- and adopter-friendly.
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