Project Description
The Lafayette Animal Shelter needed a larger updated facility to reach their goal of obtaining No-Kill status. Achieving No-Kill status depends on four main factors: Ample animal housing, appropriate treatment facilities for sick or injured animals, the ability to spay and neuter animals on a large scale, and improving adoption rates. The new shelter not only holds more animals, but their housing areas are larger, have more natural light, and are easier to clean and maintain. The larger clinical areas allow for more efficient treatment of animals as well as spaying and neutering them. The adoption lobby is warm and inviting to improve the public experience and hopefully lead to increased adoptions. A 450 square foot education center allows the shelter to host public training events and better educate the public on animal care. The site has multiple exercise yards and play areas for the animals as well as a pond surrounded by a walking path so that potential adoptors can get to know the animals before they take them home.
The campus has two buildings separated by short covered walks: the Dog Dorms and the Main Building containing the Cat Condos, Lobby, Education Center, Clinical Areas, and Offices.
The Dog Dorms and Cat Condos lay out in such a way that the public can safely wander through them without staff present. This allows the shelter to operate more efficiently and reduces wait times for people interested in adopting an animal.