Stray Hearts Animal Shelter: Play Yard Renovation Grant Report

How did this grant help your organization and the pets in your care?

Fencing, gates

This grant helped us to divide a large play yard into smaller play yards for safer integration during playgroups.

How many pets did this grant help?

<1000

Please provide a story of one or more specific pets this grant helped.

Willow was a feral Great Pyrenees who had to be trapped and brought to our shelter. He had to be medicated to handle. Eventually, he was able to be leash-walked to the play yard and was integrated through the fencing until he got used to the others. He was taken from the smaller yards to the larger one repeatedly until he became comfortable with the entire playgroup.

When the public came to watch our playgroups, a local rancher witnessed Willow’s ability to interact with the other dogs without incident. Willow was successfully adopted and is now an integral part of the working dogs on a ranch.

This dog had had zero chance at adoption, but with assistance from smaller play yards, his experience being socialized was made so much easier!