Makeover Comes to McKamey Animal Center
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Channel: WTVC NewsChannel 9 · 2012 · News & Politics
by John Madewell A national home improvement television show will soon shine the spotlight on Chattanooga and the McKamey Animal Center.YouTube footage of the pit bull "Winston" ripping the front bumper off of a Chattanooga police patrol car in 2010 sparked the initial attention.From that incident, the show Designing Spaces started researching McKamey. The show airs on Lifetime and crews are wrapping up shooting at the animal shelter.McKamey's Executive Director Karen Walsh said national and local sponsors for the show have donated about 5,000 worth of products and labor.That includes fresh paint, collages of animals with their new owners, and portable homes for rabbits that will greet people as soon as they walk into McKamey.Crews also put in floor to ceiling tile donated by a regional company. And an animal medical equipment company donated blood work machines to be used by veterinarians and vet techs.Walsh said the new equipment will take McKamey to new levels of animal care. "So that if we deal with a case like a starvation case, there's one right now that we're showing on our Facebook page, that if we're dealing with that kind of situation you can't just bring a dog in here and feed it, you have to watch what's happening to it metabolically."The three episode series air in January and again in March.
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