Animal shelters cutting budgets; shelter 'kills' increasing

ATLANTA - The number of cats and dogs put down at metro Atlanta animal shelters is rising amid sharp budget cuts... with Gwinnett County leading the way.<br /> <br /> The number of cats and dogs destroyed at animal shelters in Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties has jumped 24 percent in the last two years. Those five core metro Atlanta counties killed almost 30,000 cats during that time.<br /> <br /> Gwinnett County led the metro area with 7,588 dogs and cats put down in 2009. County officials say almost half of the animals were destroyed because the shelter could not house them.<br /> <br /> Animal activists say adoption programs will never solve the problem. They advise animal owners to spay and neuter the animals to help control the population.

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