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Neighborhood org Dallas Pets Alive! helps dogs find foster and forever families

 

 

Five months ago, Shelby Sue was a scrawny, starving mutt lying in an alleyway. She’d contracted heart worms and been hit by a car, leaving her with huge scabs and scars all over her body, and leaving her without the energy to walk. It was in the alley that Dallas Animal Services found her. 

With the shelter’s space often hitting critical status since the beginning of COVID, Dallas Pets Alive! Founder and Executive Director Leslie Sans picked up the dog herself to foster until she could find a permanent home. Now, Shelby Sue is 40 pounds heavier and happily looking for her forever family. 

“We had to try everything to give her that second chance because no animal should die in that state,” Sans says. “And that’s DPA. We save the ones that are on their very last notes and their last chance, and Shelby Sue is a shining example

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Athens-Clarke animal shelter on the lookout for volunteers to foster puppies, cats
Kristall Barber, animal services director for Athens-Clarke County, cuddles with Tsunami, who had contracted parvovirus resulting in a shelter quarantine, on Friday, Aug. 6, 2021. Tsunami has fully recovered and is available for adoption.

Athens’ animal shelter is overflowing with cats and pet dogs through a seasonal spike that has swelled the facility to around capability.

Athens-Clarke County Animal Services operates a shelter for surrendered and stray animals, primarily cats and canine. The shelter has 53 cages for pet dogs and as of Friday, they experienced 55 puppies, which includes a mom and eight puppies, who were not in a cage but remaining retained in a independent home.

The shelter also has approximately 200 cats and kittens accessible for adoption, 90 of which are in foster households, and the remaining 100 at the facility on Buddy Christian Way. There are around 15 canines in foster care as effectively.

Spring and summer time usually see a spike in animals at the shelter, Kristall Barber, ACC animal products and services director, defined. Also, far more kittens and puppies tend to be born then.

Additional:Athens commissioners

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Foster families desperately wanted soon after distemper outbreak at Maricopa County Animal Care and Regulate shelter

PHOENIX — It is a dire scenario at the Maricopa County Animal Treatment and Regulate shelter where several structures are locked down just after an outbreak of distemper.

One animal advocate, who asked for anonymity, described it as the “best storm” with the pandemic, Fourth of July holiday break, and an by now overcrowded shelter that is small on manpower.

Distemper is a virus that leads to neurological seizures in animals. It is just one of the most major health conditions your pet can get, but also one particular of the most preventable as there is a vaccine for it.

Shelter spokeswoman Monica Gery states the county has locked down three and a 50 percent kennel structures at the West shelter. Only kennel employees are allowed in all those parts to clean up and feed the animals.

Those people likely in have to use distinctive protective equipment ahead of moving

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