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~~ Alamance County Animal Shelter (Operated by the Burlington Police Department) This open door shelter is the only government shelter in this county of about 130,000 people, The shelter housed over 5000 animals last year, There is a care group of six and a secondary group of 14 or 15 volunteers who together give 25 to 30 service hours per week in the existing 32 run shelter. Their duties include cleaning, feeding, grooming and adoptions. Volunteer applicants are interviewed by the shelter director who accepts less than half.. Three or four former volunteers have been hired as part time kennel and shelter workers, Changes are coming, In four to six weeks, a 40 run adoption center will open next to the existing shelter. Apart-time volunteer coordinator will be hired but will have some other duties. An orientation and training program is in development, New Hanover County Animal Shelter (New Hanover County Health Department, Animal Services Division) This open door shelter takes in about 4500 animals a year and receives limited volunteer service from the public, about 10 hours per week, This is supplemented by community service workers, about six or seven per year, who serve anywhere from 24 to a few hundred hours in the shelter, The shelter manager coordinates the volunteers for in-shelter service. Special events, such as an Adopt-a-thon and two annual free rabies clinics, also are partly staffed by volunteers, The shelter solicits volunteers far these events via advertisements and ps,a.'s The hours are not tracked. The Humane Society of New Hanover County operates a shelter very nearby the county's and houses about 1200 animals per year, With only two or three paid staff, this shelter makes extensive use of volunteers, The two shelters cooperate over a range of animal issues.