Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter urgently needs foster and forever homes for dogs

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. ( WIAT ) — Workers at the Tuscaloosa Metro Animal Shelter say they desperately need people to adopt dogs.

Abby Moore is the shelter intake manager and hopes the community will help during this emergency.

“We are an open emission shelter with limited intake, so that means when we left last night we didn’t have any dogs in the garage area,” Moore said. “When we came in today, we had a total of 12 in our garage area that came in overnight. We don’t have any open runs so we are pushing for fosters and people looking to adopt.”

Moore says the newest additions to the shelter are being housed in portable crates because there is not enough space in the facility.

Shelter managers say the process to become a foster home is as easy as filling out a foster application online to get started. Foster director Savannah Morton says fostering will help save the animals’ lives.

“Fostering helps out the community a lot because it helps us get dogs out of the shelter,” Morton said. “It saves dogs’ lives, literally! The dogs you foster and the dogs that come in because it creates a space for them for the shelter dogs to have a space.”

The shelter adopts and fosters roughly 500 dogs per year.

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