Broward Animal Care officials sound alarm on need for residents to adopt pets as facilities overflow

Broward County Animal Care is overcrowded, and officials are urgently asking the public to consider adopting a furry friend to help ease growing capacity concerns at the shelter. Officials say there s no better time for animal lovers to find their perfect furry friend than at the county shelter. Before you go buy a dog, consider adopting a dog from a shelter. We get purebred dogs in here; we get mixed breeds that look very much like those purebred dogs that can get what you re looking for and also save a life in a shelter, said Broward County Animal Care Director Doug Brightwell. Not only would increased adoptions help these animals find forever homes, but they would also ease pressure on an overwhelmed county shelter that, Brightwell says, is at capacity for both dogs and cats. We are over capacity for dogs; we are also at capacity for cats. We ve just had more animals coming in than we ve had moving out through adoption, said Brightwell. Brightwell hopes to change