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Brooklyn Animal Shelter
The BAS has been organized for the purpose of raising funds to promote the following objectives:
- To encourage responsible pet ownership by educating the public on the importance of spaying or neutering to control animal over-population.
- To increase public awareness of the proper care of companion animals.
- To assist in providing a safe, clean, comfortable environment for lost, abandoned and stray animals.
- To reunite owners and lost pets.
- To promote adoption of homeless animals.
Description:
We are an all volunteer group headed by a board of trustees (9). We serve the community of Brooklyn by taking in stray animals, (cats and dogs), getting their necessary medical treatments, diagnostic tests, and preventative vaccinations. We send out Operation Pet Watch alerts to the community via e-mail and cable TV for lost and found pets. We have had excellent success with dog adoptions and pretty good with cats. We are a no-time limits shelter. We do one big fundraiser yearly, the Nautica Charity Poker Festival (July this year) and several smaller ones.
History:
We started working together in September 2004. We started doing foster care after we got our 501c3 and our animals were on the web. We have adopted out or returned to owner over 100 dogs and over 400 cats. We went from foster care to a large garage with no hot water in summer and none in winter to a beautiful shelter in a lovely home on Memphis avenue in Brooklyn.
Contact people:
Main office number: (216) 741-1213
Office fax number: (216) 741-1213
Address:
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8300 Memphis Avenue
Brooklyn, OH 44144
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Web Site: http://www.brooklynshelter.org
Directions:
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I480 W to Ridge Road, left on Memphis. We are past the Rec Center on your right, just past Brookway Lane. 8300 Memphis is a beautiful big brick home with a white picket fence and parking lot in the front.
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| Last updated on August 16, 2010 |
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Brooklyn Animal Shelter
5
Overall Experience
Fun and short daily work with friendly people and dogs/cats.
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Everyone I've met is very friendly and always trying to help. Normally, the work is quick and easy with dogs - you walk them, give clean water, feed them, and spend some time with each dog. The scheduling is very flexible and can easily be changed. You are assigned 3 hour shifts with another person, but you are only asked to arrive within the 3 hour shift. The shelter only has 5 dogs at the moment (2 puppies) and all are very friendly and happy to see you. Each visit/shift takes about 1-1.5 hours to do everything for all 5 dogs. If both people assigned to the shift come, time is cut in half. Some dogs go home with volunteers, so there may only be 3 dogs which also cuts down time. This is the best time I’ve had volunteering and it never seems like a burden to go. If anything, I’d like to be scheduled more often than I am.
posted by lindsay_a_regal@keybank.com on April 23, 2010 |
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