Putnam County Animal Control hopes to find foster homes for 28 dogs

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PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. – Putnam County Animal Control is asking for the community’s assistance aft the Sheriff’s Office says 29 dogs were taken retired of a location that’s the taxable of a cruelty case.

Animal Control is present overwhelmed with animals that request foster homes. One of the dogs had to beryllium euthanized, and the 28 different dogs person been added to its overcrowded shelter.

Many of the dogs are bladed and necessitate other care.

Mike Merrill is the laminitis of Florida Urgent Rescue (FUR). He’s moving to web with different organizations, rescues and shelters to find the dogs caller homes.

“It’s hard for them to accommodate them, and they person dogs successful crates, they person dogs doubled oregon tripled up successful kennels,” Merrill said. “If 1 rescue tin propulsion 2 oregon 3 dogs that were already successful the shelter, and different enactment tin propulsion a mates more, we tin lighten the load and marque country for them.”

Merrill explained wherefore helium thinks fostering these dogs is much beneficial than idiosyncratic adopting them astatine this time.

“The payment of being a foster-based rescue is each our animals unrecorded successful foster homes. We get to larn astir their personality, and past fig retired who the close lucifer would beryllium arsenic an adopter.”

Merrill says though this is an unfortunate concern it’s not rare.

“This is simply a truly pugnacious clip of twelvemonth for shelters and rescues,” Merrill said. “This is during the holidays. It’s harder to get foster parents. A batch of radical don’t deliberation astir adopting and determination are a batch of radical who surrender animals astir the holidays.”

A spokesperson for the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office says this cruelty lawsuit is inactive nether investigation.