Crisis continues at Hawaii animal shelters

Crisis continues at Hawaii animal shelters.
The Hawaii Island Humane Society is currently experiencing an adoptions drought, seeing very few applications and appointments.
Their mainland transfer partners are also seeing the same downward trend, making it difficult to accept dogs from HIHS.
As a result, dogs are staying for extended times as they wait to be noticed.
“I have to emphatically share that I cannot believe how wonderful our dogs are,” said Lauren Nickerson, CEO of HIHS.
“We have such an incredible population of great dogs right now, all of them waiting for a chance to be someone’s best friend.”

HIHS is currently operating overcapacity with dogs living in overflow areas, such as in their medical recovery kennels, since the ones at both their Keaau Shelter and Animal Community Center in Kona are completely full.
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Here are their numbers as of Monday, Oct.