Appreciates the letters about animal shelter

Dear Editor:

Thank you so much to your readers who wrote to The Gaffney Ledger about the situation at the Cherokee County Consolidated Animal Shelter.

For those of us who have been trying to get positive changes made, it often feels like we are up against a brick wall, with little support from the community. Sadly, the only positive change that has occurred is that, at least temporarily, the heartsticks have stopped.

This situation is certainly shedding a negative light on our community.

PLEASE CONTACT YOUR COUNTY COUNCILMAN and demand immediate action be taken to improve the conditions at the animal shelter. Also plan to come to the next council meeting May 19 at 5 p.m. We have asked that a shelter manager be hired whose primary responsibility would be to ensure that the animals are treated humanely and to handle adoptions but we were told that was not going to happen.

Andrea Allison Gilfillan,

Gaffney, SC