Animals were crowded together on top of each other. Worst of all, the shelter's limitations made it necessary to euthanize thousands of animals over the course of its history. But the small crowd of people who gathered for the opening of the new site Wednesday morning saw a place of color, learning and life. One wall is already filled with dog and cat depictions by a class from Henry David Thoreau Elementary School. With gentle humor, stylized forms of dog bones are inlaid into the floors.
Exhibits make animal education go down easy.
That was good news for the relatively few animals who were at the shelter on its opening day. Cats lounged happily on their new padded chairs in the glass-walled Royal Cat Hotel area, assessing with feline fussiness the humans passing by. Some of the humans were there simply to check out the new facility. This is so wonderful. I'll have to come back.