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Chair: Animal Shelter Won't Get

$100,000 From County This Year

Puddy, left, a 3-year-old male, and Cheater, a 6-year-old female, are current residents of the Susquehanna Animal Shelter. (Don Mathisen/AllOTSEGO.com)
Puddy, left, a 3-year-old male, and Cheater, a 6-year-old female, are current residents of the Susquehanna Animal Shelter. (Don Mathisen/AllOTSEGO.com)

HARTWICK SEMINARY – The Susquehanna Animal Shelter is asking Otsego County for $100,000 to help fund its operations.

The organization, formerly known as Susquehanna SPCA, made an appeal Tuesday to the Health and Education committee, according to Chair Janet Hurley Quackenbush, R-Town of Oneonta.

The committee took no action on the funding request but did invite the organization to try again in the early stages of the 2017 budget process.

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