Dear Editor,
As the owner of three much-loved dogs, I would be very upset if, by accident, any of them got loose and had to wind up in the Brookhaven Animal Shelter. I don’t trust them to care for the animals they pick up, given that they now do not allow volunteers to come into the building and are making them sign non-disclosure agreements (NDA) even to volunteer there.
I’m wondering what one of them saw or reported on to elicit such a paranoid reaction. Some of them have volunteered there for over 15 years, a record unmatched by many other organizations. I think the NDA requirement should be removed immediately and some deadline dates and named responsibility be added to the prospective list of improvements that appeared in the article on the shelter in Newsday recently, if local dog owners are to believe anything is really happening.
Yours truly,
Mary K. Chelton
East Patchogue
