Amid persisting shelter overcrowding and illegal pet abandonment on city property, on July 26 Coweta’s police chief announced to 2 News a public pet fostering campaign in the works.
“I have never seen the amount of discarded animals, especially puppies, as we are seeing today,” Chief Mike Bell said in a July 23 Facebook post from the page for Coweta Animal Control.
Chief Bell said the frequent problem of illegal abandonment is especially harmful during the summer when people have left puppies in boxes and dogs tied to fences near the animal control center…