The Douglas County Animal Shelter is bursting at the seams with animals, a problem exacerbated when about 80 cats were taken in last month as a result of a hoarding situation.
Douglas County Purchasing and Animal Control Director Bill Peacock readily acknowledges the shelter has around 240 animals, about twice its capacity, and that it is grossly understaffed.
And Peacock said there’s simply no more room if the county had to deal with another big group of animals coming in at one time.
“If that happens, we’re going to have to send them somewhere else because there is no way that Douglas County could take another large influx of animals, whether dogs or cats” Peacock said. “We are so above capacity that we would not be able to handle it. We just could not do it. We would have to go to a Plan D.”
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