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    Photos: Columbus Humane Unveils Renovation

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    Renovations are now complete at Columbus Humane, 3015 Scioto Darby Executive Ct. in Hilliard. The animal shelter’s new layout is designed to create a better experience for potential pet owners and its four-legged inhabitants.

    Visitors are greeted by adoptable felines as they walk in the door. The all-new cat caging makes use of space that was once an underutilized lobby. Small, 2×2 foot steel cages were traded for 7 foot tall, five-level enclosures quadrupling the space for each cat. Team members are now on foot to help visitors interact with cats in one of the three new cat communities.

    Visitors can head to Barksley or New Pawlbany to find man’s best friend. Canines are housed in four adoption rooms and six premier pooch pads. The adoption rooms have the same layout as before with lowered ceilings to help with bark control. The biggest change to the canine area is the addition of bonding rooms, growing from one to five.

    “The experience has been transformed,” says CEO Rachel Finney.

    She sees visitors come in smiling and experience the space in a much more relaxed way. It’s a better environment to make a long-term decision about adopting an animal.

    “We want it to be a good decision that’s not based on guilt, but on fit,” Finney says.

    Columbus Humane’s new look has been nearly two years in the making. Plans for renovations were approved in December 2016 when just days later, a devastating flood destroyed a third of the building. Priority shifted to reopening the shelter’s veterinary hospital, which was completed in October of 2017. Construction began on the front portion of the building in February of this year, wrapping up in late October.

    “I love seeing how pleasantly surprised people are,” Finney says. “They walk in the door and they go, ‘Oh, this is really cool; this isn’t what I thought it would be.'”

    For more information visit, columbushumane.org

    All photos by Susan Post. 

    A pledge from Columbus Humane’s early programming that dates back to 1884 and was recited by every child in Columbus Public Schools.

     

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    Susan Post
    Susan Post
    Susan is the editor of The Metropreneur and associate editor of Columbus Underground, and also covers small business and entrepreneurial news and the food scene in Central Ohio.Susan holds a degree in Communication with a minor in Professional Writing from The Ohio State University. She sits on the board of the Central Ohio Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and loves coffee, whiskey, cooking and spending time with friends and family.
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