CACC is now open on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 4 pm-7 pm, and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 3 pm and from 4pm-7pm. The city shelter is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. The shortening of adoption hours from 49 a week to a mere 17 lessens the chance of animal adoptions drastically. This comes in the year where a million cars have a sticker reading "Dog Friendly Chicago" plastered on their front windshields. Since CACC is an open admission shelter they take in every dog and unfortunately must euthanize some perfectly adoptable pets. In 2008 only 17,00 animals had to be adopted. This year shelter workers were hoping to decrease that number, yet that seems unlikely. The hours were changed on July 16th to be closed on Sundays but were recently modified as to allow potential adopters in on the busiest adoption day of the week. Hopefully the city will be able to lenghten the shelter hours rather than spending millions on the Olympic bid, or once the economy gets a bit better. I hope you'll adopt a dog, cat or rabbit from this shelter, the fee is only 65 dollars.
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