Back in 1886 the Moreton Mail carried an article that proposed situating a public pound at the Cabbage Tree Creek manure depot (Portion 284),
… which place is already fenced in, having a caretaker’s house, and supplied with a creek of permanent water. The only expense entailed, would be the construction of a stockyard. The Corporation contractor might well be appointed pound-keeper, he to collect his own fees, and to pay the Corporation a royalty on each animal passed through the yard.
Nothing much seems to have happened until construction of a new animal pound and dog refuge commenced in mid-1977. Occupying some fourteen acres, this included two dwellings for the pound-keeper and the impounding stockman and their families. The Warra Municipal Pound and Dog Refuge opened at 521 Telegraph Road on 15 May 1978 at a cost of $300,000. Warra is an Aboriginal name for the Sandgate area and reportedly means “flat expanse of open water”.1
“By November 2015 or earlier its name had changed to Warra Rehoming Centre, and it was actively advertising dogs and cats that needed rehoming.”2
Today there are two animal rehoming centres run by staff from Animal Welfare League Queensland (AWLQ). Staff at the animal rehoming centres make every effort to identify the owners of lost animals and reunite them with one another, and they rehome any unclaimed animals that are healthy and sociable.