Animal shelters are always in need of kind and caring people to adopt dozens of dogs and cats in search of forever homes — and that need continues and remains just as important into the winter season.
Naomi Pobuda, Cherryland Humane Society communications and marketing manager and outreach coordinator, said this year, the shelter has taken in more kittens than usual due to the warm fall weather. With dogs, she said intake is generally slower in the winter, however, hoarding cases, animal neglect, or when there’s a natural disaster like the recent hurricane down south, affect their numbers, too.
Every day looks different, Pobuda explained, but the shelter has also seen an influx of people wanting to surrender their family pets because of the housing crisis and lack of places that allow pets. In addition, Cherryland has a contract with animal control, so the facility houses and takes care of those incoming dogs and cats as well. With animal neglect cases, the dogs or cats involved can’t find homes during an ongoing investigation, so Cherryland staff takes care of them until they are able to be adopted out.
