WAUKESHA - Elizabeth Huffman waited four weeks to take her puppy,
Mickey, home from the Humane Animal Welfare Society of Waukesha
County.
The homecoming was delayed due to a bacterial outbreak at the
shelter, which closed the facility at the end of last month, but
Huffman, of Waukesha, finally was able to pick up Mickey on Tuesday
afternoon.
The shelter opened its doors again Tuesday to resume normal dog
adoptions.
Lynn Olenik, executive director of HAWS, said the 47 dogs in the
shelter have been checked over by a veterinarian, but people are
being asked to take the dog they adopt to their own veterinarian.
"We want them to be working with their personal veterinarian
as much as possible," she explained.
The bacterial outbreak appeared here on April 16 when the first
dog, who later died, showed symptoms of illness with a high fever,
an inability to walk and labored breathing.
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