{"id":156396,"date":"2022-07-29T03:42:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T08:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=156396"},"modified":"2022-07-29T21:44:12","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T02:44:12","slug":"new-van-wert-county-humane-society-building-is-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2022\/07\/29\/new-van-wert-county-humane-society-building-is-open\/","title":{"rendered":"New Humane Society building is now open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After many months of planning, fundraising, waiting and construction, it\u2019s finally open for business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Van Wert County Humane Society\u2019s new Fox Road facility quietly opened earlier this week and is now housing cats and dogs that are waiting for their \u201cfurever\u201d home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s something that we never really thought would ever happen,\u201d Humane Society Board President Deb Sealscott said. \u201cWe talked about renovating the (Bonnewitz Ave.) facility. We had contractors come in and for whatever reason it was going to be much more difficult to add a little wing on. It just wasn\u2019t that simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Van Wert County Humane Society’s new facility at 550 Fox Road is now open. Two open houses are scheduled for next month. Scott Truxell\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Sealscott said 2019 was when the board had multiple discussions with Garmann-Miller architects and others about building a new facility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had our plans put together and that fall we started our soft fundraising campaign for some seed money,\u201d she said. \u201cMarch of 2020 was when we were ready to go to the public. We had all of our brochures, letters and everything ready to go then on March 13 the world changed due to COVID. Some of the board members wanted to stop while others wanted to continue, so the campaign committee decided to forge ahead after several months.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The board campaigned during COVID with a goal of $600,000, but $800,000 was raised for construction of the new facility. As it turned out, all of it was needed because of cost increases. Actual construction by local contractor Alexander and Bebout began last fall with a goal of getting the building undercover by winter, a goal that was accomplished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new shelter is about 3,600 square feet, or approximately 800 square feet larger than the previous facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe biggest difference between the two facilities is on Bonnewitz we just had one large room that housed everybody \u2013 that was our cat quarantine, dog quarantine, healthy cats, healthy dogs and that really posed a risk because we do get animals coming in with illnesses or they\u2019ll develop an illness and you need to be able to quarantine those animals,\u201d Sealscott said. \u201cWe now have dog and cat quarantine areas and because we work closely with the county and the dog warden, he has his own little area where those dogs are brought in, so it’s an entry point for the strays that come in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have additional room for cats and the cats are separate from the dogs. We have free roam cat room for the kitties that get along, and we have a meet and greet room which we did not have before, so if you\u2019re interested in a pet you can bring your family and your other dog in and everybody can get together to see how they get along.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two open houses are planned \u2013 one is scheduled by invitation for 4-6:30 p.m. Thursday, August 11 for donors, VIPs and volunteers, followed by a general open house for the public from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, August 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Humane Society\u2019s current hours are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays; 3-6 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. The facility is closed on Sundays and Mondays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor After many months of planning, fundraising, waiting and construction, it\u2019s finally open for business. The Van Wert County Humane Society\u2019s new Fox Road facility quietly opened earlier this week and is now housing cats and dogs that are waiting for their \u201cfurever\u201d home. \u201cI think it\u2019s something that we never really thought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 22:40:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156442,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156396\/revisions\/156442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}