Snuggles on the couch are common now for Alexis Ketover and her new foster dog Linda.
But just two weeks before, amid the latest crest in the capacity crisis at CMPD Animal Care and Control, the shelter volunteer was sitting in Linda’s kennel saying goodbye.
“I just held her, and I told her how much I loved her and that she was such a good girl, that she didn’t deserve any of this, and that if I could, I would save her in a second and that I loved her so much,” Ketover said.
At the time, the animal shelter was overcapacity, and Linda’s fate was uncertain with kennels needing to be cleared.
Ketover was living in a smaller space then and couldn’t take the pup she has grown to love as a volunteer dog walker.
“I just kept repeating over and over again, what a good girl she was,” Ketover said.
Fortunately, another volunteer stepped in, saving kennel space and Linda’s life, giving the 3-year-old pit bull terrier a couch to crash on until more dogs could be adopted out and the shelter squeeze loosened.
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