LifeLine was founded with a mission to end the euthanasia of healthy and treatable shelter pets.

You may have seen our Tuesday posts sharing dogs at risk of euthanasia due to a lack of kennel space, hoping our community can help through adoption or fostering. Our goal isn't to create urgent lists. It's to meet our capacity targets before one is needed. Starting Friday, November 6, we're changing our process to give our community more time over the weekend to help dogs find placement and prevent future urgent lists. - Free Dog Fridays: Free dog adoptions will help create space and reduce the number of dogs who become urgent. - Friday nights: If we remain over capacity, urgent lists will be posted after the shelters close on the Fulton and DeKalb at-risk webpages. - More weekend time: Families will have the weekend to adopt, foster, or help secure rescue placement. - Monday at 7 PM: Every dog on an urgent list must have a confirmed adoption, foster, or rescue placement by this deadline. - No extensions: With 50–60 dogs entering our shelters daily, we cannot extend deadlines. Repeated extensions have also kept our teams focused on a small group of urgent dogs when thousands of other animals need pathways out. - Monday evening:Dogs without confirmed placement will be euthanized for space. We've also updated our websites with real-time information about urgent dogs, their placement status, daily capacity, and FAQs: FultonAnimalServices.com/at-risk DeKalbAnimalServices.com/at-risk Fewer urgent dogs. Fewer crisis days. More community support. More dogs in homes where they belong. LifeLine takes responsibility for every life that enters our shelters and remains committed to saving every healthy and treatable animal. But our shelters cannot hold every dog in need. We need our community's help. Together, we can save these lives.