Please, if you can afford to at this time, donate to your local animal shelter. I prefer the "no-kill" shelters myself, but that's a personal preference.The costs in food and care and housing them have gone up considerably I'm sure. They have to do something in order to earn enough to take care of these animals so people can get them. Places like this are usually not for profit. They need that income in order to try to avoid putting all these animals down. They can't do all this with no money.