PIKE COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - The Pike County Animal Shelter has been able to reduce their euthanasia rates to eight percent. <\/p>\n
\"It took a lot of burden off the people that have to do the bad thing. And now we don't have to hardly do it anymore,\" Jason Burke, animal control officer, said. <\/p>\n
The Appalachian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and the Pike County Fiscal Court are covering each animal's expenses. <\/p>\n
\"That means that you'll get an animal that's spayed and neutered, vaccine, I mean, de-wormed, and everything,\" Burke said. <\/p>\n
92 percent of animals that come to the shelter are released to adoption and rescues. <\/p>\n
James and Whitney Whaley adopted their puppy, Dobby, on Valentine's Day. <\/p>\n
\"When you adopt from a shelter, it's kind of good you already have a dog that's established and you get to take them out of a bad situation and put them in a better situation,\" Whitney Whaley, owner of an adopted dog, said. <\/p>\n
For the Whaley's, adopting their dog was one of the best decisions they made. <\/p>\n
\"It's now the three of us, while he's still definitely a dog, I mean, he's still kind of a part of the family,\" Whitney Whaley said. <\/p>\n
Officials at the shelter, shared about 10 to 12 animals are adopted each and every day.<\/p>\n
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