BEAUMONT, Texas — Beaumont Animal Care is still one of the many shelters busting at the seams with animals, many of which are on the "Red Code List".
When an animal goes on this list, it means that they could be euthanized if they don't find a home soon.
Beaumont Animal Care says that euthanizing the animals is always a last resort, but sadly local shelters are filling up faster than they are being adopted.
"Every time I get on social media, or Facebook or something I see all these dogs on there. And it's just like an epidemic of dogs down here," said Tanna Shirk who is thinking about adopting a pet of her own.
Shirk, who's from Pennsylvania, says that she isn't used to seeing sheltered animals on this scale.
"I'm from Pennsylvania so this isn't really something that happens up there. Every time I get on there (social media) I just ball literally, I'll sit on my couch and just cry because it's just so heartbreaking. So we're out here just trying to help save at least one," said Shirk.
Tanna and her 5-year-old son Sutton adopted Snoop, now named Smore. He was one of the many dogs on the shelters urgent list.
Red heart stickers represent animals who may be euthanized if they are not adopted, right now 10 dogs are on that list.
"We do euthanize as the last resort. We really try and make that the last final resort for the animals here. Which is why we always try to have this urgent list and make it public to people. So they know who needs help, and how they can help us get these animals out," said Viviana Lopez, Adoption Foster Marketing Coordinator of Beaumont animal care.
Typically dogs who've had multiple litters like Cami, a Pitbull mix, are also hard to get adopted according to Lopez.
"She's a really sweet dog and she gets along great with people and other animals as well. But because she's been at here over 45 days, which is our max stay. She is on our urgent list. She was brought in around July and so unfortunately, since July no one has wanted to foster or adopt which is really unfortunate for animals like Cami," said Lopez.
The shelter has reduced fees for adoption right now. The fees covers vaccines, micro-chipping, de-worming, flea prevention and sterilization options.