Shelters in the Baltimore area are running out of room, and they need your help.The Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter doesn’t want to be forced to euthanize any animals, so they need the community's help with adoptions or fostering. They say this past weekend they came close to that becoming a reality."It's been a tremendous struggle for us both financially and with the limited space we have here at the shelter," said BARCS' Bailey Deacon.Across the country this time of year, shelters are usually overflowing with kittens, puppies and animals that get outside or get loose. But this year, surrenders are at their highest level in years."What is different this year is we have a huge influx in owner surrenders, and that's not just puppies and kittens, that's people who are coming to us saying that they cannot afford to keep their pet and they don’t see any relief in the future where we could help them board the pet and they could take it back," said Deacon.She said they have taken in more animals month-to-month this year than they have in more than a decade. BARCS has never euthanized healthy treatable animals, but she said that could become a heartbreaking reality."This past week we got really close to that having to be a reality and it was very scary going into a holiday weekend where everybody's on vacation. And our fosters, our volunteers and our staff are on vacation too. (We were) out of space and afraid that we weren't going to get animals adopted," said Deacon.She said families are having to choose between putting food on the table and feeding their pets because costs are up across the board. This weekend, the shelter got a huge boost with an unexpected call."We did have an amazing weekend. The Orioles stepped up and invited us to the stadium to get eyes on our dogs," said Deacon.Between the ballpark and the shelter, more than 90 animals were adopted. However, BARCS took in 300 animals last week, leaving them with critically low space again."So, we are still waiving fees because while we've opened cages here at the shelter, we're open admission, and more animals are going to keep coming in and we are still at capacity today," said Deacon.There are several ways you can help. You can adopt a pet, foster a pet to free up space, make donations and/or volunteer.