Grass Valley Animal Shelter Cares For Pets During Power Crisis

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GRASS VALLEY (CBS13) — There is airy astatine the extremity of the passageway for folks inactive successful the acheronian successful Nevada County, but for those charged with caring for animals, it can’t travel soon enough. One carnal structure successful Grass Valley is present astatine capableness during the powerfulness crisis.

There are 2 generators fueling operations astatine Sammie’s Friends — 1 brought by the region and fueled by the region that runs the canine shelter, and 1 successful the feline installation that the structure pays for and fuels itself.

A enactment of electrical cords serves arsenic a beingness enactment for the shelter. The Christmas tempest near the structure without powerfulness for the past 2 weeks.

“The archetypal happening was getting unit to the structure due to the fact that your archetypal panic is these dogs request their medication,” structure manager Liz Taylor said. “They request to beryllium fed. They request to beryllium watered.”

Taylor and unit scrambled erstwhile the calls for work started coming in.

“I gave retired my idiosyncratic compartment fig for radical to accidental ‘That’s my dog’ and we would nonstop them to the structure to travel prime them up arsenic soon arsenic possible,” Taylor said.

Downed trees took retired powerfulness poles and fences and galore radical were evacuated.

“Everybody is turning their dogs successful and past carnal power is uncovering a batch of dogs that are conscionable wandering astir retired there,” Taylor said. “We are afloat to capacity, beyond capacity.”

Even immoderate cattle are nether the shelter’s care.

Taylor says she is fortunate to person a unpaid unit of 250, galore of whom mislaid powerfulness themselves. They instrumentality turns walking dogs, portion others cleanable the inside.

It’s a take-charge radical successful a powerfulness outage that’s pushed folks and this installation to their limits.

“This year, we’re clocking 400K successful aesculapian care,” Taylor said.

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One of the biggest needs astatine Sammie’s Friends is simply a caller washer and dryer. They spell done them truthful rapidly and they deterioration them retired with the magnitude of usage they get. Also, canine beds, blankets and bedewed nutrient are needed. Those are each important donations for this facility.