Story by Community Reporter, Christine Bruce.
This year, BC is seeing excessive numbers of pet surrenders and rescues, and unfortunately, there aren’t enough animal shelters to handle the load. Smithers local organization, the North West Animal Shelter has four buildings for cats and dogs, but it still isn’t enough. They have to turn animals away, and it’s heartbreaking.
Christine Bruce takes listeners into the animal shelter, interviewing President Sara Tomlinson and Adoptions Coordinator Nicole Murray on how they’re coping, and what the community at large can do.
One of the more successful ideas this year has been dog and cat adoption events hosted by Total Pet Smithers, and the Powder Hound Hootenany, a community fundraiser hosted at the Smithers Brewing Company. But the big one which would make a huge difference in the lives of animals is something anybody with pets can do — is to get them spayed and neutered.
