Cache Creek Sends Out Urgent Call For Fosters

FRANKFORT, IL. — Cache Creek Animal Rescue is sending out an urgent call for temporary foster families to house an overflow of animals it has recently received. The Frankfort-based animal rescue posted on its Facebook page July 8 that shelters in the area are currently packed, including Cache Creek, and they are desperately seeking places to put the animals.

Barb Bartkowiak, fundraising coordinator for Cache Creek, told Patch that there has been a recent uptick in abandoned animals, both puppies and kittens, as well as adult dogs and cats. She said individual people and breeders have "just been dumping pups and kittens," sometimes in garbage bags, on the sides of roads.

The recent influx does not appear to be related to the recent trend of "pandemic puppies," where many families adopted puppies and kittens during the pandemic lockdown, she said.

"We just want to make sure the animals are safe," Bartkowiak said.

Cache Creek provides all needed supplies and vet care, she added.

Anyone interested in helping by becoming a foster home, or by making donations, can contact Cache Creek via its Facebook page here, or can email them at cachecreek19@yahoo.com.