Calling potential dog owners in Maryland!!
These pups are ready for new homes!!
The Frederick County Animal Shelter is desperately looking for people who want to adopt a dog. Now that isn’t an unusual request from an animal shelter, except for the fact that this week 75 dogs were dropped off at the shelter and there is minimal room to care for them. An unidentified gentleman from Thurmont, Maryland brought the dogs in after he was asked to care for them by a friend from St.Mary’s county. The man became overwhelmed with the task of looking after all of these dogs and when he went to contact or locate his friend, he was nowhere to be found.
The shelter wants to get these dogs adopted and into forever homes as soon as possible. The dogs are in good health and they seem to be social. However, the dogs are not housetrained, so there would be a bit of training necessary. The shelter has been overloaded with 100 dogs dropped off in February alone, not counting this recent bunch. All but 3 of those former dogs have been adopted.
The 75 dogs are made up of about 10 different breeds of small dogs. Once they are all checked out, they will be ready for adoption. The Frederick County shelter is one that has a “no refuse” policy, which means that they don’t turn any animals away and work very hard to insure the best placement for the dogs.
Currently officials from Frederick County and St. Mary’s County are looking to find the original owner of the dog. They have yet to determine if charges are to be filed.
So anyone in the Maryland, Virginia, Delaware area who has it in their heart to help out and adopt one of these small beauties, contact the shelter at 301-600-1546.
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:33 am
they look very cute