Cobb government said Friday afternoon that all 150 dogs at the county animal shelter were given antibiotics on Thursday, and that the 200 cats housed there are getting them today.
After closing the shelter earlier this week due to a strep zoo outbreak that killed at least four dogs, the next step will be a full cleaning of the facility on Al Bishop Road. Cobb spokesman Ross Cavitt said that will “likely happen at the end of the next week.”
While the cleaning is underway, the remaining animals will be housed temporarily, and Cavitt said the Atlanta Humane Society has donated 80 crates for that effort.
He also said the animal services staff has been trying to contact the owners of 80 animals who were recently adopted from the shelter in recent days, but there have been no reports of newly adopted animals getting sick.
Cavitt said a fifth dog who died in the shelter recently may also have contracted strep zoo, a highly contagious bacterial infection, but that happened before testing was ordered.
The shelter remains closed and no new animals will be taken in during that time. The animals currently there will be monitored for a week after receiving antibiotics, Cavitt said. The cleaning is expected to take several days.
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