I've been corresponding with a woman in SF who volunteers to help move adoptable cats out of the Kings County Animal Shelter in the rural central valley of CA, near Fresno. The animals there are euthanized at a very high rate as they have no room for the large number of incoming animals with only a few being adopted.
Here's what she says:
"The shelter is overrun and only has an average of one adoption a month, so before I started helping in October, most cats only had five days. At least some are getting out now, but yesterday they got in 30 cats and they are out of room. The entire shelter is closed on weekends, which doesn't help their adoption rate. The coordinator keeps for adoption only the nicest of the hundreds they get in, and has been sending me photos of her [the cat I was inquiring about] to try and help me find her a home. "
Currently this shelter has 197 dogs and 72 cats! There are volunteers that coordinate getting the animals to people that want to adopt them in the Bay Area.
For more information about a particular animal, call:
Kings County Animal Control at (559) 584-9214
Ask for information about animal ID number A025871
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