Two North Texas cities are calling on residents to help animal shelters overflowing past capacity.<\/p>\n
Fort Worth Animal Care and Control is asking residents to adopt and foster because both animal shelters are “significantly over capacity,” according to a\u00a0Facebook post<\/a> from The City of Fort Worth.<\/p>\n Fort Worth has two main animal shelters operated by the city that are over capacity: Silcox Animal Campus and Henry\u2019s Animal Campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to the post, cat occupancy at Silcox has reached 253% capacity, with 165 cats and kittens in spaces designed for about 65. Many of the felines are under eight weeks old.\u00a0<\/p>\n Silcox is also at 137% capacity for dogs, with 442 canines in 321 kennels. Several dogs are forced to stay in temporary outdoor kennels due to the limited housing.<\/p>\n Henry\u2019s is housing 382 animals, including 56 cats and 250 large-breed dogs.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAcross both locations, hundreds of animals are in urgent need of placement to create space for incoming pets,\u201d the post said. \u201cEvery adoption or foster, even short-term, directly helps relieve overcrowding and saves lives.\u201d<\/p>\n Fort Worth Animal Care and Control provides foster supplies, including food, treats, collars and leashes.<\/p>\n Dallas Animal Services shared a similar Facebook post<\/a> on June 8, asking residents to adopt. The post said the animal shelter is operating at 150% over capacity for dogs and 116% for cats. Residents\u00a0of Dallas can visit the DAS website<\/a> for details on how to foster, adopt and volunteer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two North Texas cities are calling on residents to help animal shelters overflowing past capacity. Fort Worth Animal…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":897316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,10768,7371,7372,358,290227,324926,324927,363544,290169,326777,324427,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-897315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-brief","tag-fort-worth","tag-fortworth","tag-texas","tag-tp-dallas-fortworth","tag-tp-fort-worth","tag-tp-tarrant-county","tag-tp-cute-animals","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-dallas-county","tag-tp-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116824282073660029","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}