Animal shelters are filling up in Utah and across the country.
Shelter Animals Count said 6.5 million animals entered shelters in 2023, and an estimated 900,000 animals weren't adopted.
“I’ve been doing this for 10 years and I have never seen so many puppies in shelters in Utah,” said Stacey Nixon, with South Ogden City Animal Control.
One of the problems isn't that people aren't getting pets, it's that they're not getting pets from shelters.
“We began increasing the number of animals coming into shelters, but not increasing the number of animals leaving at the same pace, so we really got into this bottleneck situation of too many animals in our care and at the same time, more continuing to come in each year,” said Stephanie Filer, executive director of Shelter Animals Count.
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