By Stan Lehr
4/21/2009
52 animals were adopted or transferred from the animal shelter on the south side of Indianapolis Sunday--a single day record.
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Adam Garrett, the shelter's volunteer coordinator and organizer of rhte Tour for Life Adoption Festival, says the event "was successful beyond my wildest dreams."
Public Safety Director Scott Newman also gives credit to reforms initiated by the new Indianapolis Animal Care and Control Administrator, Doug Rae.
Rae says, “Indianapolis is a first rate city with kind and caring people and they deserve an animal shelter that reflects that. Not only will we provide first rate service to protect public health and public safety, and not only will we save the lives of thousands of animals, but we will become a model of compassionate care for the rest of the nation to follow.”
Newman says the shelter "is not a prison and it is not death row. People are thinking of us as a great place to adopt!”
Rae also proposes the addition of new streamlined positions, a comprehensive review and revision of all Standard Operating Procedures followed by extensive employee training and retraining, an in-depth training program for all volunteers, more adoption events, and partnership with more animal welfare groups and animal rescue missions.
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