STAFFORD — Work on Stafford County’s new animal shelter is wrapping up.
The new $5 million facilities located at 26 Frosty Lane near the Rappahannock Regional Jail will replace the county’s current facility next to the Rappahannock Regional Landfill on Eskimo Hill Road.
Right now, crews are putting the final touches on the paint on the walls and the installation of a drop ceiling inside the new building. They’re also installing a security camera and telephone systems, as well as landscaping around the exterior of the building.
Crews are expected to wrap-up work by the end of May, with the new shelter opening to the public in June, states Stafford County Interim Public Works Director Keith Dayton.
A major upgrade from the current shelter, the new facility will include separate pens for healthy and sick animals, a spay and neuter clinic, and isolation rooms for different animals. Creature comforts for the shelter staff include offices, and a dispatch communications room
The new shelter will sit on five acres of land on a larger 38-acre parcel of land owned by the Stafford County Government. There will be room for additional expansion should the shelter outgrow its new digs in the coming years.
