Meet Lilo. This sweet 3-year-old feline was brought to the Chenango SPCA almost 1 year ago. Could you be her fur-ever family? (Photo by Catherine Sasso)

NORWICH – The Chenango SPCA is over capacity and calling on the community for support.

The local shelter can hold between 100 to 125 animals comfortably. Currently they have 176 cats and 11 dogs in shelter and more cats with foster caretakers.

SPCA Executive Director Annette Clarke said that abandonment rates are high, and adoption rates are low.

“Last year at this time we had adopted out 444 animals, this year we're only at 388,” explained Clarke.

Clarke recalled a recent abandonment, “There was a tote of kittens left in our back parking lot, if no one had worked that day or saw that tote, I don't know that those kittens would have made it.”

Currently adoption fees are being waived until the end of November, making it easier than ever to adopt.