On Saturday, August 2, Dallas Animal Services announced that it would no longer accept dogs from the public due to an outbreak at the shelter of Canine Distemper Virus, a contagious and often fatal viral disease that affects dogs.
The shelter said that it would accept only sick, injured, or dangerous dogs. Currently, anyone who needs to surrender a dog — for whatever reason such as finding a lost dog on the street and wanting to get it out of harm’s way — is turned away and being advised to “exhaust other outlets.”
The shelter stated that “We have no set timeframe for when we will reopen intakes. We will reopen intake once we know it is safe for our current dog population.”…