12/31/2024
Dear Fremont County,
There has recently been community concern raised about the animal shelter located in Riverton and operated by Paws for Life Animal League. Several of the items on the list of previously raised concerns have already been addressed and we had a chance to speak at the December 17th, 2024 City Council meeting to give a short report on the issues brought forward and the progress we have made to resolve them. We encourage any members of the community who would like to watch that presentation to do so on YouTube. The video is posted on the City of Riverton page and will be linked below as well. The meeting was rather long so if you wish to skip straight to the presentation you can find that starting at the 2:03:09 mark in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/live/Lum1IrMiFC4?si=jIvk6BG26xoSMBl0
Tonight (12-30-2024) we were tagged in a post on Facebook that contains serious implications on our facility. During the December 17th 2024 City council meeting a concerned member of the community brought it to our attention that there was an incident report filed with the City of Riverton regarding this matter. That was the first time our current shelter manager and the entire board were made aware of the situation. Upon hearing that we formally requested the incident report and the redacted report (all personal information was redacted) was delivered to us on December 27th, 2024. Since receiving that report we have been in contact with the Riverton Police Department and are currently waiting to hear what our next steps will be. As of right now no criminal charges have been brought against the previous shelter manager and we can not comment on if there will be charges at this time as we are still working through figuring out what happened during this June 2023 incident in its entirety.
Look to our page over the next couple of days and weeks as we comb through not only the Facebook comments on these posts but also work to address all the concerns brought to us from the community. We would also ask that anytime there is a post, shared post or comment that you would like us to address during this time to please tag us directly in the comment thread. Our responses may not be immediate but we will be taking all public comments and doing our level best to reassure our community that the animals are first and foremost cared for.
