When Michelle Lascon took over as Director of Operations for KC P.A.W.S. in 2019, the Waldo-based animal shelter was getting around 10 calls a week from distressed area families inquiring about how to go about surrendering an animal.
Now, the phone rings constantly throughout the day, and Lascon says there appears to be no end in sight to what she and other area animal shelters are calling the worst animal welfare crisis of the last 20 years.
“We’re getting 40-50 calls a day from families wanting to surrender an animal,” Lascon said. “We’re at capacity, just like every other [animal shelter] and it feels like it’s going to be never ending.”…