The Safe Haven Animal Shelter has opened in Sussex County accepting cats and dogs.
And it has a no-kill policy.
That puts it at odds with Delaware’s largest animal shelter in Kent county.
New Castle County also has a no kill policy.
The SPCA has contracts in all three counties to practice dog control taking in abandoned canines and investigating animal cruelty cases.
It also practices euthanasia with animals who are too ill, aggressive or where there is no room to house them.
But Safe Haven hopes to take over animal control duties in southern Delaware by competing for a $669-thousand county dog-control contract.
If successful the Wilmington News Journal reports that Safe Haven would go against a national trend of nonprofits which are getting out of the animal control business.
Delaware SPCA has announced that it is discontinuing its Wilmington contract.
That became a no kill operation a few years ago.
