Charlotte Mecklenburg Animal Care and Control is no longer accepting non-emergency owner surrendered animals due to overcrowding.
The shelter is legally obligated to take in strays, and it will still help with emergency owner surrenders, but is no longer maintaining an owner surrender waitlist.
“A lot of people think that we’re saying that we won’t take in strays, that is not accurate. We have to take in strays, which is causing a lot of the … capacity issues, and what’s made us evaluate the owner surrender program,” Knicely said…