Greenburgh, Pets Alive Break Off Animal Shelter Negotiations

Pets Alive and the Town of Greenburgh have ended negotiations over an animal shelter in the town, reports The Journal News.

The Pets Alive no-kill shelter in Elmsford is slated to close this year, and with negotiations broken off the fate of the facility is unknown.

“There were a couple of board members who felt uncomfortable with taking the building back,” Joseph D’Abbraccio, Pets Alive’s acting board president, told The Journal News, speaking about the Greenburgh Town Board. “The town did not want it and would rather gift it to another organization, and that’s not what we intended to do.”

Town Supervisor Paul Feiner said he was disappointed by the situation.

“When the town turned the property over to the Elmsford Animal Shelter years ago, I was very involved. We turned it over because the organization was so passionate and idealistic, and really believed in no-kill,” Feiner told The Journal News. “I really hate to see the shelter becomes another commercial shelter that doesn’t comply with the idealism and the mission of no-kill.”

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