Every day at 4-Paws Animal Shelter, Susie Owens holds her breath.

She wonders if this one might be the day one of her 49 animals finally finds a forever home. After more than a year of waiting, dogs like Bella are still hoping for that miracle.

"I'm here 7 days a week, 10 to 12 hours a day," Owens said, the shelter operator. "Very few people every visit the shelter."

She's been working day in and day out for nearly 500 days without one day off.

The numbers paint a stark picture: 4-Paws currently houses 24 dogs and 25 cats, but the resources to care for them are running dangerously low.

"We're struggling," said Owens. "The animals keep coming, but the donations have just really seemed to slow down tremendously," Owens explained.

Andrea McBride serves as secretary of the shelter's boar

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