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Matthews resident tells commissioners rescuers are overwhelmed, urges emergency shelter capacity
Summary
Laura Withers, founder of No Kyo Cat Collective, told Matthews commissioners rescuers find more than 1,000 animals in the area and that animal control lacks space. She asked the town to support emergency and overflow shelter options and volunteered her group's help.
Laura Withers, founder of the No Kyo Cat Collective, urged the Matthews Board of Commissioners on Nov. 24 to address what she described as an urgent shortage of humane shelter and overflow capacity for animals in the town.
"We have over 1000 animals that are being found in the Matthews area," Withers told the board during the public-comment portion of the meeting. "They're being turned away…
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