Easy Street Animal Shelter lists Lewey, a young male extra-large Coonhound mix, for adoption at its Saint Jo location. The shelter promoted him on its Facebook page after KFDX, the NBC station in Wichita Falls, came to meet him. Easy Street's adoption page gives the shelter's address as 69 US Hwy 82 East in Saint Jo, not Gainesville.
How long Lewey has waited is not established in the shelter's own record. The Petfinder listing Easy Street maintains places him in the young category, roughly 1 to 3 years old, and carries no intake date. Age there is given as a range rather than a date, so the record shows how old he is and not how long he has been in a kennel. Nothing the shelter has published confirms a stay of about two years.
In a Facebook post, Easy Street asks how no one has adopted him yet and says he is ready to trade his kennel for a couch. The shelter's materials spell the name two ways, Lewey on the adoption listing and Lewy in the post, which affects online searches for him.
Weekday visits run by appointment, according to the shelter's adoption page. That page lists Saturday hours of 9 a.m. to noon and says the shelter closes on Sundays.
The Easy Street website sets the dog adoption fee at $100, or $50 for adopters over 60. The shelter says the fee covers vaccinations, spay or neuter surgery, a microchip and monthly preventatives.
What it costs to adopt a dog from Easy Street
$100 adoption fee
The shelter says the fee includes vaccinations, spay or neuter surgery, a microchip and monthly preventatives.
$50 adoption fee
Adopters over 60 pay half, for the same package of vaccinations, surgery, microchip and preventatives.
Source: Easy Street Animal Shelter (esashelter.org)
Easy Street also operates a foster program. Under the terms posted on its website, the shelter pays for medical treatments, vaccinations and food, and the foster household provides basic care and a family setting.
Animals impounded inside Gainesville follow a separate path. The city's animal control page says municipal Animal Control enforces the animal ordinance and that Noah's Ark Animal Shelter has care and custody of all impounded animals. City records show that work has been covered by contract. For fiscal year 2013-2014, the City Council approved an animal-shelter agreement with Noah's Ark that paid $100 for each animal the city delivered, with funding capped at $50,000. The vote was 5-0, with two council members absent.
Source: City of Gainesville council records (gainesville.tx.us)
The same city page says Gainesville approved a change to its ordinance allowing Trap-Neuter-Return and adopted a TNR policy for feral cats.
Lewey's listing remains active on Easy Street Animal Shelter's Petfinder page.
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