POESTENKILL – Poestenkill and Sand Lake town managers are transforming a building on Route 66 into a dog shelter with 10 kennels that they think will be opened at the start of the summertime to serve Rensselaer County neighborhoods outside Troy.
Poestenkill Supervisor Keith Hammond and Sand Lake Supervisor Scott Gallerie stood inside the building at the Waste Management transfer station area at paths 66 and 351 Friday afternoon describing how the center will be restored for an approximated $50,000 to take in roaming dogs up until their owners can be discovered.
Hammond and Gallerie said towns are sending out dogs to locations outside the county or town dog control officers are keeping them at home due to an absence of kennels in the county. The county towns beyond Troy lost the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society in Menands as their shelter when the personal organization was overwhelmed with needs for usage of its 86 kennels.
“We’re leasing a building for countywide use. It will be a county dog shelter,” Hammond said prior to talking about the strategies at the future shelter website.
Gallerie and Hammond said they are working out a last regular monthly rental cost with Waste Management to utilize the building, which has actually been utilized formerly for automobile repair work and by a little regional trash carrying business.
“We’re starting small,” Hammond said.
The brand-new shelter will have 6 kennels for dogs and an extra 4 kennels for quarantine functions. There likewise will be an indoor workout location in addition to space outside the building, which will be renovated.
The 2 managers said the state Department of Agriculture and Markets has actually examined the area and offered suggestions. In addition, they said, Richard Crist, the county director of operations, has actually gone to the area to discuss what support the county might have the ability to offer.
“Rensselaer County has actually been talking about involvement and participation in a neighborhood dog shelter to help our towns and towns,” said Crist, who applauded Hammond and Gallerie for their deal with the task.
“There are now less and less opportunities to securely take care of dogs that are lost or abandoned in the location,” Crist said.
Gallerie said the towns will start with the dog shelter. Eventually, they might have the ability to broaden to have a full-service animal shelter that might take in cats and other animals. The push for the lawmakers to do something about it discovered a supportive audience as Republican and Democratic lawmakers said the problem needs to be studied and a strategy established for handling animals in a gentle method.
Gallerie said Sand Lake dealt with about 12 roaming dogs that required to be protected in the previous year. Poestenkill had about 4 dogs that needed positioning in a shelter, Hammond said.
The Rensselaer County Legislature management said it would check out developing a full-service animal shelter and its funding after hearing homeowners speak previously this month about the growing requirement in the county to house dogs, cats and other animals.
