A Mississippi animal shelter is “drowning” in puppies.
Like numerous different shelters across the South, Tunica Humane Society usually operates at full capability. So when it began “raining puppies” in rural northern Mississippi this week, director Sandy Williams couldn’t assist however cry.
“I probably got 25 calls today about puppies,” she wrote on Facebook Wednesday. “It seems they are everywhere in our area. We can only do what we can do with the resources we have. It’s heartbreaking to think that some of the puppies will never find help. Some of them will not survive because all rescues are overwhelmed and can’t respond to the endless calls.”
When Williams rescued a litter of 10 puppies from a property in Tunica Wednesday, she was compelled to go away almost a dozen extra behind, together with one other older litter of puppies and a number of grownup dogs that must be spayed and neutered.
“We are struggling to find a place for them,” she defined. “Most of these dogs have grown up feral which makes this a very difficult mission.”
“This particular situation cannot be ignored. It’s spiraling out of control, again,” Williams urged. “We don’t want to see these little puppies grow up to be unsocialized and unadoptable, so this is the battle we had to choose today over all of the other calls.”
Then on Thursday, Williams acquired a name a few litter of three puppies and a mama pup in actually dangerous situation that had been dumped forward of impending extreme storms.
“I cried all the way back to the shelter because I didn’t have a clue where we could put this mother and puppies once I got there,” she wrote on Facebook. “Yesterday had already pushed us to the max. We always seem to find a way to help just one more. But we sure need some foster families to step up because we are drowning in puppies.”
And they nonetheless want to return for the opposite dogs they left behind on the property in Tunica.
Williams advised Southern Living that they’re “constantly” rescuing mothers and puppies. The lack of accountability surrounding spaying and neutering in Tunica, and so many different communities within the South, is a disaster.
“It’s a never ending battle in the South, and especially in our area,” she defined. “We’re surrounded by rural communities that have no animal control. We’re always getting calls about stray dogs and 9 times out of 10 that stray dog is pregnant.”
On any given day, Tunica Humane Society has 150 dogs in its shelter. Its most capability.
“We could not make it without fosters,” Williams stated. “It’s how we handle our overflow. These puppies need to be nurtured and held and socialized. They need so much more than what they can get in our shelter facility.”
On Friday morning Williams already acquired two calls about litters in want of rescuing. The shelter additionally at the moment has a pregnant canine of their care that’s as a result of give delivery any second. But at the least she’ll be in a “safe and loving environment,” Williams notes.
If you reside within the space and are capable of foster one or two of those puppies for just a few weeks, contact Tunica Humane Society instantly at (901) 219-0508 or (662) 541-1000.
“Time is critical to their socialization,” Williams defined. “And we need to make room at our shelter to pick up the other litter still at the property.”
