LCHS goes big with adoption unit
Trailer hits the road
Lincoln County Humane Society isn’t kitten around with its new Mobile Adoption Unit.
Executive director Kevin Strooband says the humane society plans to increase adoptions by using the mobile unit to bring 43 animals directly to people.
The Mobile Adoption Unit will host mostly cats, but also dogs and rabbits, and at times other small animals.
In addition to attending adoption events, Strooband said the humane society hopes to use the mobile unit to attend other community festivals to increase awareness.
“They always say you need to go where the people are to promote adoption,” he says.
Strooband says the unit will be very successful.
“It commands attention, it’s so big and blue, and people will come to see it,” he says. “People generally come by when there are animals around anyways, even just to look, but it also promotes awareness of the shelter and what we do.”
The unit is air-conditioned and heated, and equoipped with a generator to produce any extra heating that might be needed for a Canadian winter.
Strooband says the purchase had been in the works for two to three months and was made possible because of funds bequeathed to the humane society.
LCHS also reached out to the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and to branches in Welland, Fort Erie and Niagara Falls to offer them use of the mobile unit.
“We’re going to certainly collaborate and work with our partners to make this (unit) an option for them,” he said. “Not every shelter has the options or resources to get something like this.”