July 20, 1984 Newsroom 985-2131

THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

Classified 986-6222 Circulation 986-1337 Price 25¢

Shelter staff being over-run wit

THE WEST Vancouver SPCA shelter is operating

at peak capacity — a situation shelter employees

suspect may be due to all the bad publicity the
North Vancouver SPCA has been receiving lately.

West Vancouver
Debbie CGeammon
North Shore News
are refusing to take
animals to the North
couver pound

“We're geting at Jeast 10

manager

told the

people
the
Van

By JOANNE MacDONALD

anmtmals a day from) North
Vancouver people who come
night out and tell us they will
not go to the local shelter

because of what they've read
in the papef,”’ said Gam-
mon ‘'We've had to to turn
people away, and some have
been from West Vancouver,
too «That’s not mght We're
here to serve West Van

Gammon says her shelter
is currently housing over 64
cats, with normal teline
levels usually no higher than
30 of 40

The number of dogs
handled by the shelter usual
ly runs no higher than 10
Current population ts 18

West Vancouver shelter
staff consists of three full
tume employees and onc
part-time staff member The
North Vancouver shelter
staff is larger because thes
also handle pound dutics

Gammon satd the shelter

sagrtone seni
aie

ie

ager
" ay

pa

dogs and cats

is How considering puting
the cxcess antinals
to sleep. a poly
fore mmplemented.
“Bctore we
animals — for
months But

cable

some of

Neves be

kept the
months — and
we've been on
TV oat lease three times
showing the dogs cats anid
kittens

to take

pleading with people

aru yare

sand on the are thar we mag hy

them

have to consider putting the
animals to sleep" she said
Coammon said Che major
ty of the dogs being brought
te the shelter are all large
which are difficult to

placc in homes She

dogs
added
also taken to

people have

dumping cats oan the shelter 's

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