After a Mont Tabor home partially collapsed in early August, the Rutland County Humane Society took in 36 dogs, but where are they now? Executive Director Beth Saradarian said most of them have found a new place to call home. “I would say we still have about seven in our care, but the rest of them have been adopted,” she said. Some of the dogs were sent to other shelters around New England, and some went as far as New Jersey.”That was a big help because it would have been a lot to adopt all of them from here,” Saradarian said. “I think the majority of them have been adopted already. Some of them, I think, are still in the care of those organizations, but I know they went up for adoption pretty quickly.”Saradarian adds that five or six other dogs that stayed in Pittsford have been adopted. Donor Support and Data Base Coordinator Barbara Lalancette has been fostering one of the rescued dogs, named Alara. Lalancette explained why she took her in. “There’s a shooting range just up the road, and she was terrified of that,” she said. “So the only way she was going to thrive is by getting out of here for a while. I had her for a couple of days now, and it’s like day and night. She’s doing so much better.”The cost of care for the rescued dogs was over $20,000, according to Saradarian. However, the animal shelter has had an interest in moving out of its current facility in Pittsford before the many hound mixes arrived. The executive director adds the organization is hoping to move into a new facility to have the space for more resources to operate. “Everything’s just kind of Band-Aided together, and we’ve also outgrown it,” Saradarian said. “We’d like to get a surgical suite so we can offer low-cost spay-neuter clinics and things like that for the community, and we don’t have any room to do any of that here.”Saradarian said the Humane Society is still in the process of finding a space to move into and hopes that it’s in a spot that can be more accessible to those needing animal services. “We really, ideally, want to be more centrally located in the county and then have access to major roads as opposed to being on back dirt roads,” Saradarian said. Currently, there are still some rescued dogs at the Humane Society that are on medications for tick-borne illnesses. They will be available for once they recover.
After a Mont Tabor home partially collapsed in early August, the Rutland County Humane Society took in 36 dogs, but where are they now?
Executive Director Beth Saradarian said most of them have found a new place to call home.
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“I would say we still have about seven in our care, but the rest of them have been adopted,” she said.
Some of the dogs were sent to other shelters around New England, and some went as far as New Jersey.
“That was a big help because it would have been a lot to adopt all of them from here,” Saradarian said. “I think the majority of them have been adopted already. Some of them, I think, are still in the care of those organizations, but I know they went up for adoption pretty quickly.”
Saradarian adds that five or six other dogs that stayed in Pittsford have been adopted.
Donor Support and Data Base Coordinator Barbara Lalancette has been fostering one of the rescued dogs, named Alara. Lalancette explained why she took her in.
“There’s a shooting range just up the road, and she was terrified of that,” she said. “So the only way she was going to thrive is by getting out of here for a while. I had her for a couple of days now, and it’s like day and night. She’s doing so much better.”
The cost of care for the rescued dogs was over $20,000, according to Saradarian. However, the animal shelter has had an interest in moving out of its current facility in Pittsford before the many hound mixes arrived. The executive director adds the organization is hoping to move into a new facility to have the space for more resources to operate.
“Everything’s just kind of Band-Aided together, and we’ve also outgrown it,” Saradarian said. “We’d like to get a surgical suite so we can offer low-cost spay-neuter clinics and things like that for the community, and we don’t have any room to do any of that here.”
Saradarian said the Humane Society is still in the process of finding a space to move into and hopes that it’s in a spot that can be more accessible to those needing animal services.
“We really, ideally, want to be more centrally located in the county and then have access to major roads as opposed to being on back dirt roads,” Saradarian said.
Currently, there are still some rescued dogs at the Humane Society that are on medications for tick-borne illnesses. They will be available for once they recover.
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