IN A COUPLE OF MINUTES. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, MIKE. IT’S A NATIONWIDE TREND WE’RE SEEING RIGHT NOW. AND RIGHT HERE IN OUR AREA. OVERCROWDED ANIMAL SHELTERS AND MORE FAMILIES ARE RENTING THEIR PETS.

The state’s largest animal shelter is pleading for foster care help to alleviate crowding that officials attribute to increasing surrenders linked to inflation and post-pandemic returns to normalcy.

IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT GIVING AWAY FOOD. IT’S ABOUT SEEING THE DOGS FRONT STREET ANIMAL SHELTER VOLUNTEER SHANNON O’NEILL DOESN’T HAVE A DOG OF HER OWN. THE FIRST REASON I’M HERE IS SO I CAN HAVE DOG ...