The small town atmosphere helps contribute to people not being here who don't belong. The community is also concerned about each and every individual. It's the standard the community sets.

We have some good practices in place on campus, too. There's good police work on-campus and in the community.

The big thing is that the pet population is something that people can do something about. Humans have a choice to do the decent and humane thing. We can walk away from it and ignore it, but I have decided to not walk away from it.

All four groups came back and said they understood the need to eliminate smoking, but there had to be some compromise. There are a lot of people on campus who might have felt differently.

You don't want to turn them back loose on the street, but you don't want them to spend months and months or years and years in a shelter. You are going to have situations when you are going to have to put an animal down.

We went out and looked at shelters all across the southern part of the state, and then we got on the Internet and did a lot of research. This has taught me how you operate a shelter and how you build it, things like that.