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The capacity of Jackson's Animal Care Center will nearly double following the city council's approval for expansion. 'We are at capacity': Jackson Animal Care Center expands facility to meet ...
Animal shelters are reporting an uptick in owner surrenders trending towards pre-pandemic numbers, creating concerns over capacity. Animal shelters face capacity limitations as surrenders increase ...
Jul. 7—The Jackson County Animal Shelter is slashing the fee for adopting a dog during its All American Summer Dog Adoption event from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The adoption fee for ...
An animal shelter or pound is a place where stray, lost, abandoned or surrendered animals – mostly dogs and cats – are housed. The word "pound" has its origins in ...
Best Friends Animal Society is the largest no-kill shelter in the United States who adopts policies such as "Save Them All". [4] This shelter and many others strive to keep their animals as long as it takes to find them new homes. City shelters and government-funded shelters rarely have this policy because of the large number of animals they ...
Image credits: Sivitri617 Around 6.3 million companion animals enter U.S. animal shelters every year. Of those, approximately 3.1 million are dogs and 3.2 million are cats.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing animal cruelty.Based in New York City since its inception in 1866, [4] the organization's mission is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States."
Minneapolis Animal Care and Control (MACC), the city-run animal shelter in Minneapolis, has waived and lowered pet adoption fees as it seeks to make space in the shelter, which is at maximum capacity.