A dog which tested positive for distemper, followed by a handful of others showing signs, tipped off a mass shutdown of local shelters, pounds and dog parks in the Highland Lakes.
Since mid May, entities who limited or halted intakes altogether included the Marble Falls City Pound, the Buchanan Dam-based Hill County Humane Society and other municipal and rescue animal holding facilities.
“We’re limiting (intakes) to emergencies and bite quarantines,” said HCHS Executive Director Paighton Corley. “It is so rare, and it is so highly contagious that we have to shut down intakes or every new dog coming in would get this sickness and it would be a nev- er-ending cycle. “We’re going to shut down until we can get everybody healthy,” she added.
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