Lynaire Kennels reopens after fire
Apr 13, 2018The first day I said, ‘I’ll never be here again. I can’t do this,’” she recalled.But on Friday morning, nearly five months after the early morning fire that took the lives of so many of the dogs Lynaire Kennels cares for, she was at the newly-refurbished kennel again, welcoming back old customers and new.“I have a staff that is incredible, and such community support,” she said. “The people need us.”The May 9 fire started at about 4 a.m. when an electrical short in an attic space caused one of the kennels’ main buildings to burn down. About 20 pets in an adjoining building were saved.The building that didn’t burn down has been revamped and updated, Jarvis said, and though some rooms were still a bit cluttered with workers making last-minute adjustments, it reopened for business Friday morning with 20 pets expected to arrive.“We’re very happy that so many are returning,” Jarvis said. “We’re very happy with the response from our customers.”The second building has not yet been replaced, and work on it is expected to be done within five months and will be about 400 square feet larger than the one that burned down. It will include 60 runs.For a while this limits the number of pets that can be handled. There are currently 26 indoor/outdoor runs along with cages for a dozen cats and smaller dogs. Two rooms are set aside as grooming rooms, and a hallway features several pet suites, each decorated with murals under various themes including NASCAR, “Margaritaville,” a Disney’s Pluto room, and others. Each of the suites includes a television that plays music for the pets.Jarvis said that all the electrical wiring has been redone and the heating and air conditioning systems replaced. She said that a number of safety features have been added, though a sprinkler system is not among them.She said there were three primary reasons that option was not used. First, the kennel doesn’t have the necessary water pressure to make it work well. Also of concern, she said, was that sprinkler systems uses antifr... (New Bern Sun Journal)
