Keeping outdoor shelter dogs cool amid triple-digit heat in Selma

SELMA, Calif. (KFSN) -- Outdoor misters, a shaded area, buckets of h2o and tiny pools are ways employees are ensuring the outdoor dogs astatine the Selma Animal Services Shelter are staying chill during the triple digit heat.

"It's precise comfy for the animals, precise harmless and it's a harmless situation and we're hoping 1 time that immoderate of these animals tin beryllium adopted," says Commander Rene Garza with the Selma Police Department.

Commander Garza helps guarantee the structure is comfy for pets.

He points retired the improvements made since the section took implicit successful January of this year.

"The astonishing enactment the unit is doing present astatine the carnal services structure speaks for itself. Just the betterment of the misters that are present operable to the conditions of the animals. The summation of the AC and heating constituent further portable units that were brought to the facility," explains Commander Garza.

Irene Prieto is the Owner of Paw Prints Rescue, and has visited the structure a fewer times before.

She was present connected Monday morning, aft a societal media station claimed the dogs were near successful the heat, unattended and without h2o connected a blistery Sunday.

"So, I saw for myself the misters are on, there's water, it's cool, the aerial conditioning is working, Everyone is good, it's clean, they're healthy, happy, truthful that's wherefore I'm present truthful erstwhile I spell backmost and fto everybody cognize it came from maine and not from maine asking someone," explains Irene.

Action quality reached retired to the idiosyncratic who made the archetypal station connected Facebook, but we person not heard back.

Irene prides herself successful being the dependable for the voiceless and encourages radical to travel up and talk up for those who can't.

"If you person thing you're not approving of, oregon you don't similar thing that's going on, travel in, travel successful the walk-in and talk to them and they volition fto you cognize what's going on. Instead of going retired determination posting things, travel successful and inquire them, travel and assistance if you privation to, they request volunteers to assistance animals," urges Irene.

The structure does person idiosyncratic moving present typically 8AM to 5PM each time of the week.

This includes afloat 7 to 8 hr shifts connected Saturdays and Sundays.

Their nationalist hours are 10AM to 4PM Monday done Saturday, anyone is invited to locomotion successful and are encouraged to volunteer, foster oregon follow a pet.

For much accusation connected the Selma Animal Services shelter, you tin sojourn here.

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