Construction started for Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary new facility

JACKSON, Mo., (KBSI)- Work is underway on the Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary.

The new facility will give rescue animals the space they need for recovery while waiting to be adopted.

Safe Harbor was first established nearly 20 years ago as a sanctuary for cats but expanded to accept dogs.

“This new building it will give them more space.”

According to Volunteer Project Manager Dawn Villagrana, animals are crowded at the facility and need room to roam.

She says, “Right now their current situation for their dog kennels that they have outside, and they’re only partial are collapsed on the second half of it, where the new building would give them inside dog runners, as well as an outside each dog run would give inside and outside access.”

There will be a grooming room added to the sanctuary, along with a space for the animals to get needed treatment.

Montica Babers is the director for safe harbor animal sanctuary.

She says the groundbreaking is just the beginning to this exciting new beginning.

Baber’s says, “Right now we only have dogs outside and that’s unfair, and we need a special FIV cat room for FIV cats, and a nursery for nursing mothers, and we just need more space.”

The organization hopes to open the new facility by July of 2025.

She adds, “We need a lot of donations, and a lot of help to get this done.”

The building will have new intake rooms, that will hold new to existing animals that can be safely reunited to adopting families.