‘Desperate need’: Animal shelter urgently asks for help after rescue of 33 dogs

The Montgomery County Animal Resource Center is asking for public help adopting and fostering its current pets after it helped the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office rescue 33 dogs from a property this week.

In a social media post, the Animal Resource Center (ARC) said that the center only has room to humanely and safely house 80 dogs at any given time, and already had 94 dogs in the building before this. It added that due to its capacity situation, it is currently temporarily housing dogs by court order only.

The center wrote, “… we are in desperate need of adopters, fosters and rescue to help us, help these dogs.”

Specifically, ARC is asking for help with the dogs currently in their care, since the rescued dogs are legally not allowed to go for adoption, foster or rescue yet until they find where the dogs came from.

The center is asking for community help by adopting or fostering currently housed dogs, or by donating basics like crates and kennels, leashes, collars and food.

A list of adoptable dogs is available on their PetPlace website at https://24petconnect.com/MCOHAdopt, and you can sign up to foster on the main ARC website at https://mcanimals.org/get-involved/.

They also asked that if you foster for another organization or your rescue can assist, to contact the ARC outreach specialist at 937-264-5462, and to visit the ARC website if the group is not already established as a rescue partner.

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