‘We are desperate.’ Shelter needs community’s help

BEDFORD COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) - Friends of Bedford County Animal Shelter Inc. is asking for the public’s help, saying it’s in desperate need of assistance.

President Stacy Epperson says the shelter is over capacity.

‘We are desperate,” said Epperson. “We need help.”

To keep them from making difficult decisions - they are asking for the public’s support.

Despite it being a county facility, the shelter has had a no-kill status for seven years.

“We have been able to save healthy and adoptable animals and we want to keep that up but we are desperate right now,” explained Epperson. “For rescues to help pull, for folks to come out and adopt. It’s a bad, bad time... animals are just coming in faster than we can house them at the shelter.”

You can help by fostering, adopting, volunteering, donating food, or spreading the word throughout the community.

The non-profit is sponsoring adoptions for anyone who is approved.