The Fargo Police Department and Homeward Animal Shelter partnered to recover the cats left by an evicted elderly couple. Local animal shelters are taking all of them in.
“There’s a lot of cats roaming the streets,” Fargo’s Community Service Officer LaVern Aventi said. She estimates that a CSO might spend around 50% of their time on animal control.
The Fargo Police Department is still searching for the man who abandoned two cats, killing one of them. The survivor is up for adoption as shelters battle with an increase of surrendered pets.
(Fargo, ND) Despite concerns over 'pandemic remorse' in pet adoptions being a key issue for numbers decreasing, it appears another factor may be in play as to why the number of dogs and cats at local animal shelters continue to climb. Inflation is being blamed as a key issue related to adoption numbers dropping even below last year. "Rising costs seem to be the biggest
A dog that was near starvation at a home in Fargo is now spending evenings with a new caring family, after police and the courts removed the dog from its owner after the dog was found near death from starvation.