Here at Oxford- Lafayette Humane Society in Oxford, Miss. many animals await for a place to call home as animals begin to share more and more of their small cell with new animals arriving every week. With the humane society having 160-170 animals constantly, it has gotten harder to find homes and take care of the overpopulation inside the shelter. Walking through, you find four separate sections where the animals are kept. The dogs take up a larger portion of the compound, but there is room for cats, bunnies, and anything else they find.
"One time a man said he saw an ostrich running down Highway 6, it turned out to be an Emu, so he wasn't far off," said Executive Director Jan Peterman.
With only a handful of employees working at the shelter, volunteers are always welcome to help in the aid of animals that they find being homeless.
A new aspect the society here in Oxford hopes to start soon is their very own spay and neuter facility where they do not have to take the animals anywhere else to get treatment, they can do it right here in Oxford. This will also help in speeding up the process of trying to find the animals homes. They have already increased their adoption rate from 30 percent to 87 percent in just three years.
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