Fort Worth Animal Care and Control is making an urgent plea for the community’s help as its shelters operate over capacity.<\/p>\n
The city says more than 600 dogs and cats are currently in its care and is asking residents to consider adopting or fostering an animal to help ease overcrowding.<\/p>\n
Cat occupancy has reached an alarming 253% capacity at the Silcox Animal Campus. The shelter is caring for 165 cats and kittens, despite having approximately 65 standard cat enclosures. <\/p>\n
The Silcox Campus said a significant portion of the cat population consists of kittens younger than eight weeks old, many of whom are being housed in temporary accommodations not intended for long-term care.<\/p>\n
56 additional cats and kittens are being cared for at Henry\u2019s Animal Campus.<\/p>\n
Fort Worth Animal Care and Control said the need is equally urgent for dogs and puppies. <\/p>\n
Dog occupancy has been pushed to 137% capacity at Silcox. That shelter is housing 442 dogs, filling all 321 available short- and long-term kennels. Many dogs are being housed in temporary outdoor kennels, according to Fort Worth Animal Care and Control.<\/p>\n
Henry\u2019s Animal Campus is caring for 250 large-breed dogs.<\/p>\n
Officials said people who choose to foster will receive food, supplies and other support from the shelter.<\/p>\n
Those interested in helping can visit the Silcox Animal Campus or Henry\u2019s Animal Campus to learn more about adoption and foster opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth Animal Care and Control is making an urgent plea for the community’s help as its shelters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-350929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}