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May 16, 2008 6:22 pm US/Eastern

Broward's Dirty Little Secret Tries Cleaning Up

Fort Lauderdale Animal Shelter Under Review

FT. LAUDERDALE (CBS4) ― An outside consultant on behalf of county commissioners was hired to conduct a $30,000 audit of Broward's two shelters – in Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach. It will include a review of the shelters' adoptions, field operations, and caring for the animals among other things. 

The National Animal Control Association, a Missouri-based group, is conducting the on-site reviews of the shelters whose final report will be submitted sometime by mid-summer.

The county conducted its own investigation of the Fort Lauderdale shelter last year after an employee filed a complaint in June. The inquiry revealed food shortages, rotting animal carcasses and workers taking valuable dogs for their own profit. The county stated it has since corrected those problems.

"I embrace it," said Beth Chavez, Director of County Community Services. "We in fact, the staff here at animal care and regulation division had even suggested it."

Chavez says the shelter has cleaned its act. For example employees have to wait two days before they can adopt pets, and animals are no longer being euthanized in front of each other.

It's estimated at least 300 cats and dogs are brought to the Fort Lauderdale shelter each week.

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