AURORA, Colo. – Inside the Aurora Animal Shelter, there’s only enough space for about 150 pets.
“It’s tough,” said Dorothy Berry, the shelter’s supervisor. “My take on it is, we need more space.”
The shelter, which was built in the 1980s, has seen a steady increase in the number of intakes, as seen in the chart below. In 2020, the shelter took in 2,265 animals. Four years later, the shelter took in 3,417 animals in 2024.
Those numbers could likely be even higher if the shelter had more room to house animals…