Animal shelters across Metro Atlanta are experiencing extreme over crowding and are calling on you to help bring these fur babies home. This is their message, if you can foster or adopt one of these sweet dogs, please make your way over to these animal shelters and make a difference today.
Fulton County Animal Services now has 274 dogs housed at the shelter and still needs to find homes for nearly 75 more dogs. The DeKalb shelter has 435 dogs and more than 250 of these sweet animals need to find homes. These goals are in place to ensure we have the space and staffing to care, love and enrich the lives of those pets who are spending time in the shelter.
The need is still critical and urgent. Please help us continue to get the word out to find adopters and foster homes. We are not out of the woods yet, and there are still many lives that need to be saved.
Thanks to a generous volunteer, 100 adoptions have been sponsored at the Fulton County Shelter. Also, with so many of our pets entering foster homes as a result of our plea, starting on June 1st, any pet living in a foster home will have their adoption fee waived.
Please continue to share this need, come adopt, foster, or donate today to support the animals in our city. We can’t do this without you.
On any given day, we have between 320 and 360 dogs in the shelter. If you have never been to the shelter before, most of these dogs are kept in cages in a singular, large room that has remained largely unchanged since 1978. Over 200 dogs are spread across 30 runs (with 5-7 dogs per run), around 60 cages, and now wire crates line our hallways. In a perfect world, this room should not exceed 80 dogs. With Memorial Day weekend approaching, we expect another big influx of strays coming into the shelter. We have big dogs in small cages. We need to get them out of the shelter and into homes where they belong!
Please come to the shelter as soon as you can take a foster dog! Appointments are available, but not necessary. You can swing by between any time 11-7 Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, and 11-6 on Saturdays and Sundays. I look forward to assisting you and getting our dogs out of this stressful environment.
As always, if you can’t foster or adopt, please share this post and continue to share our message within your communities on and offline! Every person we reach is a potential new home for a pet, and another life saved! We can’t do this without you. Thank you for choosing to foster with us. Please never hesitate to reach out with questions.
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