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~~ <br />~~ <br />Forsythe County Animal Shelter <br />(Forsythe County Department of Animal Control) <br />The county has around 300,000 people and the department shelter aboufi 8,300 <br />animals per year. <br />The stand-alone department does not presently have a volunteer program or <br />coordinator. However, a coalition of {oval private non-profit humane societies <br />called Friends of the Shelter provides six "shelter hosts' who act as initial <br />"adoption counselors" who serve during peak adoption hours (Tuesday and <br />Thursday evenings and Saturday afternoons), These volunteers only talk with <br />people who have come to look at animals, but do not take animals out of their <br />confinement nor dp they take applications or follow through with the adoption <br />process. <br />On Saturdays, Friends of the Animals takes adoptable animals from the shelter <br />to high traffic commercial locations for off••site adoption process initiation. Shelter <br />employees do not participate off-site. <br />Forever Friends, another group of humane societies, has recently been given a <br />1500 square foot storefront in Hanes Mall and wi{I soon bring animals from the <br />shelter to that location for adoption proceedings on Saturday and Sunday <br />afternoons. This will be a totally volunteer staffed endeavor. <br />A new department director will take over the first week in April and is expected to <br />develop a more comprehensive program of using volunteers in the shelter far a <br />greater variety of tasks. <br />