COOS COUNTY, Ore. — The kennels are full, and the kittens are coming on the Coos County Animal Shelter (CCAS), and which means a heightened want for volunteers and foster pet mother and father.
As the animals await properties, Animal Control Officer Chloe Eberlein says the work is an excessive amount of for his or her two staff, particularly with the shelter operator position vacant.
This time of yr, she says additionally they lose a lot of their seasonal volunteers who head home to different states because the climate improves.
“We do get a whole lot of assist from the group, however we actually need assistance with volunteers…which is such a tough promote; I really feel like, as a result of all of the volunteers we have now, a whole lot of them even have jobs on high of doing issues out right here,” stated Eberlein. “It actually makes it arduous for us to do every part in a day when there’s solely two of us that really work right here, in order that’s why we actually want canine individuals and other people to assist with nail trims, washing animals, giving them consideration, coaching with dogs.”
Right now, they’ve simply six foster mother and father which will not be sufficient as greater than 100 kittens are anticipated inside the subsequent month.
James McLane fostered Zara for 2 months and says he involves examine in on her and provides his time as a result of he sees how understaffed the shelter is.
“We almost hit her with our automobile, and we took her home, and he or she was nursing, and we fearful about her as a result of she was so skinny. The subsequent day, we introduced her right here to the shelter, and we wished to take her home till she was carried out nursing,” stated Mclane. “The shelter wants assist. Sometimes they get overwhelmed.”
Mini Pet Mart of Grants Pass simply donated a considerable amount of pet food to CCAS easing the burden of discovering meals donations, and Eberlein says the Johnston Fund paid for all cat and kitten meals.
To volunteer or undertake, name CCAS 541-751-2480.
