UPDATE: Laguna Beach Animal Shelter Now Open

UPDATED: The shelter is now open, but the grand re-opening (with ribbon cutting) has been rescheduled for Friday, Sept. 9.

ORIGINAL POST: The is set to reopen to the public Monday, nearly eight months after sustaining in the Dec. 22 flood.

The move back from a temporary shelter that had been set up in the canyon a mile south in the Warner-Weiner center began this week. On Friday, approximately 10 animals were moved to the remodeled facility, a shelter volunteer tells Laguna Beach Patch.

A release from the city manager's office says that the renovated shelter—which was slated for a major remodel anyway before the flood hit—has masonry walls that will protect the building from damage during a flood of the magnitude that occurred in December.

The building was inundated with three feet of mud and debris, which destroyed office and medical equipment. All the dogs and cats that were being housed at the shelter were evacuated in time, but two chickens and a rabbit perished.

A grand re-opening is scheduled for Sept. 9.