Kavala's City Council approved the internal operating regulation for a new municipal animal shelter to be located in the Neos Zygos area, part of a 35-item agenda at the council's 22 June session. The regulation sets out the shelter's operating rules, ahead of the facility beginning to receive stray and abandoned animals from across the municipality. Animal welfare volunteers in the area have called the new shelter a needed upgrade to the city's capacity for humane animal care.