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The South Carolina Pickens County Humane Society is in danger of closing. The government has cut its funding and it needs the public to make up for the loss. They were not given notice of the financial loss so they were unprepared for it. Without help they can hold out until Dec 31, 2017. Then they would have to close the shelter.

http://www.ksdk.com/article/life/pets/hu...-493075929

This is a Humane Society no kill shelter. The government wants to replace them with local animal control who euthanize as part of their methods of dealing with animals. Clearly animals will die if the humane society closes its doors.  I hope the local community can rally around them and save the shelter. They will be better off without government money anyhow. Private donors are more reliable in the end.
I wish them every success.
The intent behind that County (government) decison is so save money of course. At the cost of many animals' lives. Meanwhile governments all over the world waste tremendous amounts of money on special perks and expensive lunches, private jets....you name it.

I am glad to see the shelter has a GoFundMe account. It is quite amazing how much money a thing like that can raise for a valid cause, in a very short space of time. Sometimes in days!
I hope that private donations will rescue these animals and keep the shelter open long enough for the managers to be able to implement the plans they have.

This is where any lottery winner, anywhere in the world, could solve that in hours. To someone who has fifty million, $70,000 is nothing.
It is times like this that I wish I could win the lottery. I would bail them out and help them get their funding plan going. 
Our Humane Society here no longer receives government money. We rely on private donors and we have done much better.
We make the right choices for the animals with no government meddling.

I hope the make it.

I just looked up the fund raising page and they are almost half way there. A lot of people donated recently. If this keeps up they will make it.