A local animal shelter under quarantine due to a highly contagious virus will soon be back open for business.
Orphan Angels Cat Sanctuary experienced a ‘panleukopenia,’ or feline distemper, outbreak. The shelter taking swift and aggressive actions, enacting a quarantine on the entire shelter and any exposed cats.
This week, professionals are on site cleaning and sanitizing the entire shelter, wall to wall.
Steve Berlin, Director of Orphan Angels, says, “We’re using hospital-grade sanitizer, so it will certainly take care of panleukopenia and we chose that because it is hospital grade and recommended by our veterinarians.”
Berlin says all exposed cats are now healthy and doing great. The shelter will be operating as normal by next Thursday, October 4th.