About 40 cats live at the shelter until they find their forever homes.

Geoffery Downey, a spokesperson for the New Brunswick Department of Public Safety, says that the Nashwaak River has dropped to around 19.4 metres on Monday.

Dana Marshall Gillespie, 45, plead guilty to a count of failing to obtain a watercourse alteration permit and a count of failing to comply with an order issued under the Clean Water Act.