https://facebook/wlkynews **PLEASE CONTACT WLKY** If anyone can help and is willing, will you contact WLKY about the Johnson County, KY garage and the Greenup County shelter? -- I need help with this. My car is broken down so I need to get it to the shop, and I just dont have enough time to devote to this ... if everyone will do a little, we can have a bigger voice. From 2008: Target 32: Many Animal Shelters Not In Compliance With Law POSTED: 4:07 pm EST February 4, 2008 UPDATED: 6:41 pm EST February 4, 2008 MOREHEAD, Ky. -- The latest Target 32 investigation finds many animal shelters across the state are still not in compliance with a law passed three years ago aimed at forcing them to adopt more humane standards. For 10 years, WLKY has exposed the atrocities in some of Kentucky’s animal shelters: mange devouring dogs in canine leper colonies often hidden away on private property. Our reports prompted legislation outlawing gunshot euthanasia, providing money to struggling shelters and forcing counties to comply with minimal shelter standards -- things like protection from the weather, including heated quarters during cold weather, and adequate lighting, ventilation and sanitary conditions. Shelters were given three years to comply, but our investigation finds the same old story. In fact, many counties still dont have animal control shelters. Facilities like the one in Morehead are staffed by volunteers, where theyre begging for more help in a written memo that states, “We do not have a facility.” It’s the same situation in Grayson County, where demolished dog houses are piled in rows. Volunteers who run the place claim they are seldom reimbursed, and they note with only 12 indoor runs, so many dogs are outside in the cold with frozen water buckets, struggling to stay warm. “Im getting a lot of e-mails and calls from people who say their counties are not complying with the new shelter standards,” said Pam Rogers, Kentucky program coordinator for the Humane Society. “They dont provide proper shelter for the animals from heat or cold, dont provide proper disinfectant, dont provide proper food and care and they dont have access to get the animals out.” When WLKY visited Owen County, a veteran police officer couldnt tell us where the dog pound was. Neither could the dispatcher. We found it in the dog wardens back yard. There is no shelter in Owen County, said animal rescuer Hilari Gentry. Things are so bad here, animal lovers like Gentry rescue animals from the dog wardens yard, take them home and try to get them adopted. I think its just an issue of community awareness and community priority, she said.
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