Groups unite to provide doghouses to police at Mahoning pound

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

A prison, a humane organization, a Boy Scout troop and a home improvement store joined forces at the Mahoning County dog pound Saturday to provide a temporary and safe place for law enforcement to house lost, stray, injured, abused and abandoned dogs.

Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, the Animal Charity Humane Society, Boy Scout Troop 60 and Boardman Home Depot provided the temporary dog kennels on the grounds of the county’s Industrial Road dog pound.

“This project is a great start in our efforts to work more efficiently and provide a better service to our local law enforcement agencies,” said Dianne Fry, county dog warden.

Home Depot supplied the materials and the NEOCC inmates built the dog houses.

“This provides the [police] departments with an immediate solution,” when dogs need to be removed immediately, rather than making them wait for pound staff or humane agents to respond during nonbusiness hours, said Jim Conroy, the prison’s special investigative supervisor.