# @thekansascitystar on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cv4rrwEIRsp
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/8564973-thekansascitystar-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/9f42b01dcd.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-08-13T13:00:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Kansas City Star (@thekansascitystar) — https://gondola.cc/thekansascitystar

## Caption

The KC Pet Project had barely opened for the morning. Aimee Mountjoy trundled in, clasping a leash yanked by a zestful Siberian husky mix. Silver and black, the long-haired dog sniffed ahead frenetically, claws clacking on the floor.

“You guys aren’t going to like me,” Mountjoy, 40, called out to the kennel staff. “I’ve got two more in my car.”

This week alone, Mountjoy, a good Samaritan known for rescuing huskies — some lost, many abandoned — would bring five dogs to the Kansas City area’s largest kennel, which, like kennels nationwide, is now strained to capacity.

At animal shelters from the city to the suburbs, more dogs are coming in, sometimes relinquished, but often cast to the streets by their owners. Fewer dogs are being adopted out, placing distraught workers at shelters into an unsettling circumstance. 

At KC Pet Project near Swope Park, technically a “no kill” shelter, staff members are now euthanizing up to 10 dogs a day that they’d hoped to save.

Read more about the kennel crisis and how you can help at the link in our bio.

#KansasCity #KCPetProject #AnimalWelfare #KCPets

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kansas City Star | @thekansascitystar | https://gondola.cc/thekansascitystar | Newspaper |
| Nick Wagner | @WagsPhoto | https://gondola.cc/WagsPhoto | Photographer |

## Tags

animalwelfare, kcpets, kcpetproject, kansascity

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