LOWNDES COUNTY, Ga. (WTXL) - Over 2,000 cats were homeless and placed into the Lowndes County Animal Shelter last year, but today, all cages are empty!
Every single cat has either been rescued or adopted.
Lowndes County officials say, 75 percent of the cats that make it to the shelter don't make it out alive.
Lowndes County spokesperson Paige Dukes says, there is an over population of cats within the county and encourages people to have their cats spayed or neutered.
"Sometimes these cats have to be euthanized because they're feral," said Dukes. "We are working on some programs that work in conjunction with the humane society to be able to trap, spay and neuter and re-release cats back into the community, so that we don't have so many of them coming into the shelter."
Dukes says, the best thing for people to remember is to adopt. Saving animals from a shelter extends their health and life-span.
