The McKamey Animal Center is experiencing an extreme space crisis, largely due to the tremendous increase in the number of animals that have had to be housed at the facility for their own protection.
So far this year, MAC has impounded more than 400 animals – a 160% increase from last year. This is on top of the nearly 4,000 other animals that have come to MAC this year as strays or owner surrenders, a more than 10% increase from last year.
Many of these animals have to be held for extended periods of time while their cases move slowly through the courts, adding to the already overcrowded conditions at the Center.
Animals have to be impounded by MAC Animal Protection Officers for a variety of reasons, including abandonment by their owners, neglect, intentional cruelty and arrest or hospitalization of their owners…