Facing ‘extremely contagious’ distemper outbreak, Georgetown Animal Shelter appeals to the community to foster or adopt healthy dogs

 

 

  • Jackson Daly, Assistant Director of Public Works for the City of Georgetown, appeals to the community to foster or adopt healthy dogs to create space to isolate sick dogs.
    Jackson Daly, Assistant Director of Public Works for the City of Georgetown, appeals to the community to foster or adopt healthy dogs to create space to isolate sick dogs.

    An outbreak of canine distemper at the Georgetown Animal Shelter has led city officials to make an urgent appeal for help in moving healthy dogs out of the shelter and into foster or adoptive homes.

    Jackson Daly, Georgetown’s assistant director of Public Works, said Wednesday, August 23, that healthy dogs must be moved as soon as possible to create isolation space for the sick dogs. He described th…