Author: Ellen Abbott

The rising cost of pet food is just one more stressor for struggling families in Central New York, but local agencies are working together to help.Syracuse Dog Control officer Barbara Mortas is seeing more loose dogs running through city neighborhoods than ever before.”We can just assume from the numbers that they are not just stray dogs,” said Mortas. “They started somewhere. You know people just let them go.”Dog control also gets more requests to bring an animal to the city’s dog shelter. But that’s problematic because the shelter is full all the time, in part because fewer people are adopting…