Two North Texas cities are calling on residents to help animal shelters overflowing past capacity.<\/p>\n
Fort Worth Animal Care and Control is asking residents to adopt and foster because both animal shelters are “significantly over capacity,” according to a\u00a0Facebook post<\/a> from The City of Fort Worth.<\/p>\n Fort Worth has two main animal shelters operated by the city that are over capacity: Silcox Animal Campus and Henry\u2019s Animal Campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to the post, cat occupancy at Silcox has reached 253% capacity, with 165 cats and kittens in spaces designed for about 65. Many of the felines are under eight weeks old.\u00a0<\/p>\n Silcox is also at 137% capacity for dogs, with 442 canines in 321 kennels. Several dogs are forced to stay in temporary outdoor kennels due to the limited housing.<\/p>\n Henry\u2019s is housing 382 animals, including 56 cats and 250 large-breed dogs.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAcross both locations, hundreds of animals are in urgent need of placement to create space for incoming pets,\u201d the post said. \u201cEvery adoption or foster, even short-term, directly helps relieve overcrowding and saves lives.\u201d<\/p>\n Fort Worth Animal Care and Control provides foster supplies, including food, treats, collars and leashes.<\/p>\n Dallas Animal Services shared a similar Facebook post<\/a> on June 8, asking residents to adopt. The post said the animal shelter is operating at 150% over capacity for dogs and 116% for cats. Residents\u00a0of Dallas can visit the DAS website<\/a> for details on how to foster, adopt and volunteer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two North Texas cities are calling on residents to help animal shelters overflowing past capacity. Fort Worth Animal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1638,116,118,117,88032,89512,125664,87998,89138,88643,89217],"class_list":["post-352980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-brief","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-tp-dallas-fortworth","tag-tp-texas","tag-tp-cute-animals","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-dallas-county","tag-tp-fort-worth","tag-tp-tarrant-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352980","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=352980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}