“The Man Who Saved Snaps” Shares the Vision Of His Sanctuary, and His Love For The Dogs Society Has Deemed Beyond Hope
Olympic Animal Sanctuary Founder Steve Markwell returned to King County this week with an entourage of four-legged companions in tow. The purpose of his visit to the Seattle Humane Society was to address a large crowd assembled to meet the man who saved Snaps and to hear more about his philosophy and goals for saving “Dogs You’d Rather See Dead.”
The Seattle Humane Society has offered to provide animal sheltering and adoption services for all stray, orphaned, and abandoned animals when King County Animal Care and Control shuts down on Nov. 1, 2009 for potential flood issues. King County Animal Care and Control has already stopped taking animals into its Kent shelter in preparation for possible flooding from the Green River, yet, Humane Society officials assert, KCACC is continuing to take in revenue from 32 cities that contract with it for animal sheltering and control services. The need for another shelter to provide the community with animal sheltering services is urgent.
King County plans to close its animal shelters in Kent and Bellevue by Jan. 31, and leti the cities and regional, nonprofit animal-care groups take over the care of the region’s unwanted pets. The King County Metropolitan Council voted Monday to direct County Executive Kurt Triplett to end the county’s role in the sheltering business. In addition to asking other jurisdictions to take over the care of unwanted local pets, the Council also wants the cities to handle animal-control field services by June 30, 2010 unless the entities can ink new agreements allowing the county to recover the full cost of providing such services to the cities.
King County will close its animal shelters by January 31, 2010 and end offering animal control services to cities within the county by June 30, 2010, according to a new legislation adopted by the King County Council on Monday. Brenda Barnette, CEO of the Seattle Humane Society, said her organization and the county have been discussing a possible agreement to provide sheltering services once county shelters close. The Seattle Humane Society has also begun talks with local cities, she said. Barnette said the Humane Society could accommodate the county's new deadline.
The Metropolitan King County Council today adopted legislation directing the County Executive to end the provision of animal sheltering services by January 31, 2010, and to end the provision of animal control services to the cities by June 30, 2010, unless new agreements are made that allow the County to recover the full costs of field services.
The Seattle Humane Society will be hosting a talk by Steve Markwell, the founder of Olympic Animal Sanctuary in Forks, who lives among 30-40 dangerous dogs and works to rehabilitate them. The public is invited to bring their lunch and meet Steve and some of his dogs on Tuesday Nov. 10 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Seattle Humane Auditorium. The event is FREE and donations to Olympic Animal Sanctuary are encouraged.
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