The Humane Rescue Alliance has an urgent plea: please adopt (or foster) an animal.

The shelter just filled its last kennel, and has no space left to take in more dogs. According to HRA, each week they’re taking in an average of 250 animals but less than half are being adopted.

“It’s an unsustainable equation,” reads a statement from the organization, urgently calling on D.C.-area residents to become pet parents. “We are desperately asking the public to come adopt an animal.”

If you’re not ready to make the commitment of adopting, the HRA is also asking for foster parents. You can see the more than 115 animals in need of a home here.

The current emergency is much the opposite of the one local shelters faced at the start of the pandemic, when there weren’t enough animals to meet the demand of aspiring adoptive parents seeking companionship. By May 2021, as vaccines became available and residents began booking their long-delayed travel plans, HRA was waiving adoption fees for big dogs hoping to draw in potential parents.

HRA operates five campuses in the D.C. area and New Jersey, caring for roughly 100,000 animals a year.

Correction: the original version of this story quoted the organization calling it an “unsustainable equation” when in fact it  called it an “unsustainable equation.“