A planned collaboration between Savannah Chatham Animal Control and the Humane Society of Greater Savannah fell through at the last minute Monday, leaving the nonprofit nervous about its chances in an ongoing national competition for up to $100,000 in prize money.
The two groups were scheduled to run a joint adoption program this week with the dual purpose of finding homes for more animals and keeping the nonprofit Humane Society in the running for the ASPCA Rachael Ray $100K Challenge.
By Aug. 31, the Humane Society must adopt out 300 more animals than it did last summer to move to the next round of the competition. The magic number of adoptions is 787, and, as of Monday, the nonprofit still had 125 more to go.
On Monday morning, the manager of Animal Control informed the Humane Society it did not have permission to do adoptions on site at the county facility but could only take animals from its facility back to the Humane Society, said Lynn Gensamer, executive director of the Humane Society of Greater Savannah.
Onsite adoptions with a Humane Society counselor working at animal control for the week are preferable for a number of reasons, Gensamer said.
via Animal Control/Humane Society collaboration fizzles | savannahnow.com.
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