Budget depleted Hi-Tor Animal Care Center in Pomona, NY is hanging in there with the help of recent community fundraising. Rockland County’s only animal shelter, Hi-Tor cares for nearly 2,500 animals a year, which can be an expensive operation. A fundraiser at PetSmart in Nanuet raised $1,500 for the struggling center.
You can get more information by visiting this Save Hi Tor Animal Shelter site that is tracking the center’s efforts to get the Rockland County Legislature to commit to funding the center. Addtionally, here’s a recent letter thanking supporters sent out by Roberta Bangs, president of Hi-Tor Animal Care Center.
Rockland County Legislators Ed Day and Alden Wolfe have asked for a review of the county’s animal control and care function.
“Government has a responsibility to ensure that there is an effective animal control and care function in place that both protects our citizens and is humane to those animals in need,” said Day. “Reported budgetary constraints and disagreements between different levels of government is compromising that expectation, and with it the safety of our residents.”
“This important public safety function has been caught in the middle of these disagreements, and it is increasingly clear to me that we are in real danger of losing the only animal shelter we have,” said Day. “Rockland residents have an expectation that stray animals will picked up and have safe haven until they are reclaimed; be protected from free-roaming animals; and to have the ability to adopt a homeless animal.”
