BATON ROUGE - Companion Animal Alliance on LSU's campus needs emergency fosters after LSU announced a scheduled power outage that would affect the building.

According to the shelter, LSU announced that on Dec. 26 and 27, a 36-hour outage would take place, which would affect the shelter. Thus, between Dec. 19-23, emergency fosters can take animals into their care.

"We really want to place at least 150 animals, which is a big ask, but we have about 300 animals in our care," Holly Danielson at Companion Animal Alliance said.

According to Danielson, the campus has to turn power off to the whole campus so they can implement updates when the least amount of people will be on campus, which she called "valid, [but we] just happen to also be on campus."

"Back up generator is limited, it powers limited emergency lighting, and minimal operations in our vet clinic such as refrigeration for medication and vaccines," Danielson explained. "Those that stay, we will give them each a blanket, but we won't be able to wash those blankets. So we need to get as many animals out as we can. We will be limited staff, so they won't have the social interaction they're used to. We don't want them to be lonely or cold."

Emergency fosters will be provided with enough food for the duration of the closure, a leash and collar for dogs, a carrier for cats, wire kennels for dogs as needed, and any other supplies that may be needed as available.

Emergency fosters must be over 18 and provide valid proof of identification. Emergency-foster animals can be returned to the shelter by appointment starting on Friday, December 29. 

Anyone interested should check out Companion Animal Alliance's website.