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Article: A Raucous Reunion for Volunteers, Animals; After Regaining Right to Run Shelter, Washington Humane Society Returns to Cats and Dogs
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 3, 1996
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Dogs barked, people yelled and everyone seemed perfectly
happy. In something of a homecoming at the District's animal
shelter, Washington Humane Society staff and a dozen longtime
volunteers greeted each other yesterday.
They were working together for the first time since the city
had given the management contract for the shelter to a group called
Animal Link Inc. Because of a financial and contractual dispute, the
Washington Humane Society in October gave up the contract it had
held for 15 years with the city, and the new group took over. The
volunteers refused to work with Animal Link, saying the management
was disorganized and the animals ill kept.
Animal Link chose not to bid on ...