LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — As animal abandonment points develop in Las Vegas, non-profit Pawtastic Mates founder, Melissa Novelli, informed 8 Information Now, they’ve been overwhelmed with calls.
The non-profit, based in 2016, trains shelter and rescue canines to arrange them for adoption, nevertheless, they don’t seem to be a shelter themselves.
Pawtastic Mates (KLAS)
Pawtastic Mates (KLAS)
Pawtastic Mates (KLAS)
“Yesterday was a horrible day for me,” she defined. “Not only did I have the dog come in here, but every phone call is people wanting to dump their animals.”
Novelli mentioned not too long ago she acquired a name from a person uncertain of the right way to transfer ahead after discovering two canines deserted within the desert. Novelli additionally had somebody cease by the non-profit in individual with a canine, and whereas she was checking if the canine was microchipped, the individual disappeared.
Non-profit Pawtastic Mates founder, Melissa Novelli. (KLAS)
“Here I am trying to just help find if the dog has an owner, to get back to the owner, but instead they just left,” Novelli defined.
Volunteer Jordan Connelly has labored with animals for 3 years, and informed 8 Information Now she too has seen the difficulty get progressively worse through the years.
“I have myself found dogs on the street and tried to get them and reconnect them with their owners,” Connelly mentioned. “So 100% I have definitely noticed the extreme crisis.”
Pawtastic Mates (KLAS)
Pawtastic Mates (KLAS)
Pawtastic Mates (KLAS)
Novelli and her co-founder, who can be her husband, each have full-time jobs along with working the non-profit.
They mentioned they consider the reply to the difficulty is for extra folks locally to step up and foster these animals. The volunteers additionally really useful that pet homeowners get their animals mounted and microchipped as one other resolution to the continuing concern.
