Animal shelters across Louisiana say overpopulation and overcrowding are pushing them over the edge [Video]

It’s a crisis happening at animal shelters across the country and here at home: overcrowding and overpopulation pushing advocates over the edge. “It’s really the worst we’ve really seen in many, many years,” Ginnie Baumann Robilotta with Animal Rescue New Orleans, said. “Many of the municipal shelters cannot take animals as surrenders immediately, and so we see animals just let loose in the streets.”In the past year, the number of strays, surrenders and new litters coming in are forcing many of these animal advocates to make really tough decisions. A problem that they haven’t seen in years. “I mean, we have three dogs in every kennel! It just breaks your heart,” Denise Gutnisky with the St. Tammany Parish Department of Animal Services, said. “We’re getting in sometimes five litters a week. What do you do with five litters of up puppies?”Several factors are playing into this, like pet restrictions at …