The Clay Safe Animal Shelter. | News4Jax
Published on July 18, 2025 at 1:35 pm
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The Safe Animal Shelter in Clay County said it’s on the verge of closing due to road construction affecting traffic to the shelter.
The Safe Animal Shelter is at 2913 County Road 220 in Middleburg.
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In a video posted on Facebook, a person representing the shelter said a major road closure has caused people to think the shelter is closed or unavailable to access.
“Everybody uses this road to come in for donations, adoptions, volunteering. All of those have dropped since the new road closure,” a woman said.
County Road 220 in the area near the shelter is being widened to four lanes. Work is expected to be finished in 15 months.
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The woman in the video said it costs $2,400 a day to operate the shelter, which comes out to $72,000 a month.
“All of that is donation-based right now, our donations are down somewhere around 60 to 70% and all of that is because of the road closure that leads to our main entrance,” she said.
Click here to donate to the shelter and learn more about Safe Animal Shelter.
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