This Year, Make a Resolution to Support Your Local Animal Shelter
Over the past two years, local animal rescue organizations across the country have been struggling. According to Shelter Animals Count (of which Shelter on the Hill is a founding member) shelters are caring for an astounding 245,000 more companion animals than they did in 2022.
And sadly there has been an 85% increase in euthanasia of dogs compared to 2021 and adoptions have slowed, creating a backlog of animals in need.
SOTH has been providing shelter and rehoming services for lost and abandoned animals in the mountain communities for a decade now, thus preventing as many as 200 animals a year from having to be picked up, cared for, and possibly euthanized by overwhelmed public agencies.
With this overwhelming surge in intake, animal rescue organizations everywhere are facing capacity well beyond their limits making our help needed now more than ever.
Several of our volunteers have established relationships with other shelters to transport and take in animals that otherwise might not have a second chance in an overcrowded shelter. An empty kennel at SOTH can open a kennel at another shelter. And if we can fill ours with theirs, the life-saving capacity of both can be expanded.
Just two hours a week at the shelter can give comfort and care to the lost and abandoned animals there. Please call (661) 248-5018 now and find out how just a little time can change a life.
