The closing of the Joliet facility would be problematic on several levels. It was opened to help raise funds for the group to move to a new home in Anna. The current location has flooded four times in recent years, Hawk says, with as much as three feet of water. She hoped to raise around $40,000 to put up a new building. Without Joliet, that plan is on hold. Also, her transport trips will have to stop — nowhere to house the animals — as would her visits to the Downstate pounds and shelters where she pulls animals off death row. Right now, about 180 cats and dogs are in limbo.