Norman, Oklahoma
The facility consisted of two separate building connected by a covered breezeway, built in the early 1960’s and added to in the 1990’s. After an overwhelming community-supported bond issue with over 70% approval, the project went forward. We partnered with Tevis Animal Studio to design a rehabilitation and addition to the existing Norman Animal Center. The shelter size went from 5,000 sq. ft. to 13,250 sq. st. and contains state of the art facilities and equipment, including separate entrances for both adoption and animal holding pickup, a lobby, training room, cat and dog adoption areas, animal holding areas, quarantine rooms, examination rooms, a surgery suite, staff offices and a sally port for off-loading of animals. The facility has reduced animal euthanasia substantially and is approaching “no-kill facility” levels of care.
