BY KADIE TAYLOR | THE OBSERVER

AUBURN/OPELIKA — A local nonprofit dog and cat rescue organization urgently needs to find forever homes for animals in its care after learning last week its new landlord won’t be renewing its lease. After 10 years of operating out of their current location at ???? Opelika Road, the building’s new owner informed the shelter on July 30 that Woof Ave. must move by Sept. 30. “We don’t own the building here, we rent it,” said Woof Ave. groomer Stefanie Tolbert. “In the last year or so, we got a new owner of the building, and he let us know that we have until Sept. 30 to be out of the building because he wants to go in a different direction. That’s all that we were told. So, we have less than 60 days now to figure out where to go — most importantly, somewhere for

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