She said the incident and perhaps other complaints about the shelter may have broken the partnership between the shelter and the store that had led to about 1,200 adoptions.

Sheffield said the Missouri Department of Agriculture had done a full inspection of the facility before the transport and found it was mostly in compliance with state shelter rules. She said without grants and corporate funding and only adoption fees to fund the organization, located in a low-income area, the no-kill shelter didn’t have enough revenue to house and treat the roughly 350 dogs on site.

“Right now, we are experiencing an unexpected, short-term financial crisis that left us temporarily unable to care for all of the dogs at our facility,” Sheffield said in a statement. She said she was thankful for help from the Humane Society.

Diana’s Grove has been in operation in 1994.

The shelter is also working with three breed-specific rescue organizations to house dogs, Sheffield said. She said the shelter does not plan to close, but will focus on leadership, organization and finding income sources other than adoption fees.