Rachel Dahl
Churchill County Commissioners approved a request for additional funding to the Churchill Animal Protection Society (CAPS) in the amount of $106,010 at their regular meeting last week. The funding will be used to make repairs to the floors inside the building, including patching and sealing the floors and walls.
County Manager Jim Barbee explained that CAPS fills an important function in the community, “helping to offset costs to the county relative to having a full-blown animal care shelter.”
CAPS has been a fixture in the community since 1986, when a group of volunteers came together to address the excess animal problem across the area. It exists primarily on the generosity of volunteers and an annual contribution from Churchill County, which was reduced this year to $17,000 from $20,000 as the county trimmed programs to meet budget shortfalls.
Members of the organization were thrilled in 2022 when the city and county jointly purchased a pre-engineered building and agreed to move CAPS near the sewer treatment plant off Moody Lane.
However, county budget cuts this year canceled that project, leaving the staff and a team of dedicated volunteers scrambling to keep the dogs fed, the building safe, and the organization afloat.
As the CAPS team works on much-needed improvements to their building, they continue to urge the community to adopt dogs. CAPS works closely with the Fallon Animal Shelter and will pull dogs from there when they have an open kennel at their facility on Pasture Road.
CAPS is also eager to assist anyone willing to foster animals. Those interested in adopting or fostering can call CAPS at 775-423-7500.
Donations to CAPS can be made through their website at capsnevada.org, via Venmo at Churchill Animal Protection Society, by mail to PO Box 5128, or through their GoFundMe page at https://gofund.me/d9e491b8.
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