 The Heartland Animal Rescue in Brainerd has been saving homeless animals since 1987. Now they themselves could be facing homelessness if the community doesn't step up. Our Logan Gay has more. The Heartland Animal Rescue is in need of financial help. We're not vitally in trouble that we're going to close the door tomorrow but if we don't do something and if we don't become you know have the public become aware of our problem this could happen. Heartland doesn't receive a lot of outside funding. A lot of people assume that the state local governments and the large humane societies help us out and so finally we're telling them they don't. The heart animal shelter serves all of crowing, cast and aching counties. Being responsible for all the stray animals in those regions has created a strain on their finances. We have an overabundance of cats, stray cats and from January 1 till about October 1 we took in 427 stray cats and that's a lot of cats but also with this came no money. Some people abandoned their cats outside of the building not even caring if there's room for them or not. There was a lady came and we told her we had no room and she was very nice and said okay and the next person that went out to get the mail the crate that she had was they just set it on the sidewalk they put it in our fans they put it by our doors. And the big question that's on everyone's minds is what's going to happen to these animals if the community doesn't step up and give Heartland funding that it needs to stay open. That's the million dollar question so we don't even look down that road I don't know so that is why the public needs needs to support heart and heart needs to be here for the community. In Brainerd, Logan Gay, Lakeland News. Now if you would like to donate to the Heartland Animal Rescue you can do so by visiting their website at heartpets.org. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.