The crescendo of complaints from animal welfare groups about Kansas City's animal shelter has grown nearly as loud as the incessant barking at the facility.
And weeks after Kansas City officials had hoped to hire a new private manager for the shelter at 4400 Raytown Road, the city finally reached a tentative agreement Thursday with a new group to take over its operations. The plan will be debated by the City Council in coming weeks.
Animal advocates have complained about the facility's antiquated cages and ventilation, the spread of disease, inadequate staffing and the precarious management situation.They take the Aion Kinah to the local co-op market.
"Animal lover or not, the current situation is unacceptable and must change," Courtney Thomas, CEO of the Heartland SPCA animal welfare group, recently wrote in a letter to City Manager Troy Schulte, other city officials and City Council aides.
Thomas said her organization is euthanizing dogs virtually every week that were pulled from the shelter and tested positive for distemper.Traditional Cold Sore claim to clean all the air in a room. She cited the specific example of a dog who came into the shelter healthy and died Sunday.
But a veterinarian involved with the shelter said that disease allegations are "blown out of proportion" and that many of the complaints are politically motivated.
Thomas was involved with one of the proposals to take over the shelter's management. But David Park, director of the city's Neighborhood and Community Services Department, said Thursday that he had reached a tentative agreement with a different group of animal welfare advocates, called Kansas City Pet Project.
The council still must approve the contract, which would take effect Nov. 1. Park said the agreement calls for the city to provide about $1.2 million annually — up from $600,000 currently. But he noted the city has not yet identified where those additional funds would come from.
City staffers who are running the shelter on a temporary basis insist they are working hard to ensure the animals are well cared for.Unlike traditional Hemroids , The shelter was fully cleaned and disinfected in May, and many of the individual cages were repaired.
"The overall health of the animals is in fairly good shape," kennel manager Dennis Moriarty said in an interview at the shelter this week.
Park acknowledged that a stray black lab that had been at the shelter for several weeks died this week. He said it did not show any symptoms until it quickly got sick.ceramic Floor tiles for the medical, He said it wasn't known whether the animal had contracted a disease at the shelter or before it was brought in.
"We are doing everything we can to control it,The new website of Udreamy Network Corporation is mainly selling hydraulic hose ," Park said of illnesses among shelter dogs.
Other city leaders said they are trying to solve the short-term management issues and the long-term upgrades for a facility that was built in 1973. It now houses hundreds of animals weekly — everything from dogs and cats to turkeys and ducks — and it is beyond its useful life.
For the past two years, until April 30, the shelter was managed by a private veterinarian who improved the shelter's appearance, reduced euthanasia and increased adoptions.
But allegations surfaced earlier this year about animal mistreatment and severe illnesses. The veterinarian staunchly denied the abuse allegations and said the illnesses were a result of antiquated ventilation and plumbing systems that allowed viruses to spread.
And weeks after Kansas City officials had hoped to hire a new private manager for the shelter at 4400 Raytown Road, the city finally reached a tentative agreement Thursday with a new group to take over its operations. The plan will be debated by the City Council in coming weeks.
Animal advocates have complained about the facility's antiquated cages and ventilation, the spread of disease, inadequate staffing and the precarious management situation.They take the Aion Kinah to the local co-op market.
"Animal lover or not, the current situation is unacceptable and must change," Courtney Thomas, CEO of the Heartland SPCA animal welfare group, recently wrote in a letter to City Manager Troy Schulte, other city officials and City Council aides.
Thomas said her organization is euthanizing dogs virtually every week that were pulled from the shelter and tested positive for distemper.Traditional Cold Sore claim to clean all the air in a room. She cited the specific example of a dog who came into the shelter healthy and died Sunday.
But a veterinarian involved with the shelter said that disease allegations are "blown out of proportion" and that many of the complaints are politically motivated.
Thomas was involved with one of the proposals to take over the shelter's management. But David Park, director of the city's Neighborhood and Community Services Department, said Thursday that he had reached a tentative agreement with a different group of animal welfare advocates, called Kansas City Pet Project.
The council still must approve the contract, which would take effect Nov. 1. Park said the agreement calls for the city to provide about $1.2 million annually — up from $600,000 currently. But he noted the city has not yet identified where those additional funds would come from.
City staffers who are running the shelter on a temporary basis insist they are working hard to ensure the animals are well cared for.Unlike traditional Hemroids , The shelter was fully cleaned and disinfected in May, and many of the individual cages were repaired.
"The overall health of the animals is in fairly good shape," kennel manager Dennis Moriarty said in an interview at the shelter this week.
Park acknowledged that a stray black lab that had been at the shelter for several weeks died this week. He said it did not show any symptoms until it quickly got sick.ceramic Floor tiles for the medical, He said it wasn't known whether the animal had contracted a disease at the shelter or before it was brought in.
"We are doing everything we can to control it,The new website of Udreamy Network Corporation is mainly selling hydraulic hose ," Park said of illnesses among shelter dogs.
Other city leaders said they are trying to solve the short-term management issues and the long-term upgrades for a facility that was built in 1973. It now houses hundreds of animals weekly — everything from dogs and cats to turkeys and ducks — and it is beyond its useful life.
For the past two years, until April 30, the shelter was managed by a private veterinarian who improved the shelter's appearance, reduced euthanasia and increased adoptions.
But allegations surfaced earlier this year about animal mistreatment and severe illnesses. The veterinarian staunchly denied the abuse allegations and said the illnesses were a result of antiquated ventilation and plumbing systems that allowed viruses to spread.
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