Front Street Animal Shelter offers free adoptions to help animals find homes for the holidays

The Front Street Animal Shelter launched a "Home for the Holidays" adoption campaign this week, announcing waived-fee adoptions through Dec. 31 in an effort to find loving homes for many animals in need.

The shelter continues to face challenges maintaining kennel space, regularly operating close to 200% of its appropriate capacity.

"When it rains, it pours," said Phillip Zimmerman, manager at Front Street Animal Shelter. "We were already extremely full, but just took in 12 additional large dogs from an investigation case."

The shelter has dealt with several large hoarding cases this year, including one where they secured over 30 dogs when the shelter was already at capacity. Cases like these quickly pushes the shelter into crisis mode.

"When someone adopts an animal, they truly are saving a life," said Zimmerman. "We are in dire need of animal lovers to come to the rescue to change an animal's life and to experience the joy these animals will bring to their adopters' lives as well."

For no charge, all adopted animals will be spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped, which the shelter says would cost about $1,000 to have done at a private clinic.

More information about the shelter, the adoption process, and available animals can be found at frontstreetshelter.org.