The future of more than one hundred animals at the Birmingham Jefferson County Animal Control is in doubt. With no money coming in from the city of Birmingham, these dogs and cats could end up being put down, real soon.

"It would be one thing if we knew and would prepare it's another thing to just have to work under the assumption of what knowledge we have and that's that we have no other funding coming from the city of Birmingham," says Steve Smith, owner of animal control.

Animal control has been on a month to month contract with the city and the county for more than three years. But Birmingham's council did not vote on funding for the month of February at their last meeting. That's a potential loss of about 63-thousand dollars: money this organization can not afford to operate with out.

"Between those two entities, we lost two thirds of our funding, and there's still going to be over a hundred animals that are here that belong to the city of Birmingham essentially, that as far as I know, there's no plans in place to take care of them."

The future of dedicated employees is also at stake.

"The passion that the staff puts into their jobs and the efforts that they put into adopting animals and satisfying the public as far as removing nuisance animals from the street and everything, you know their future is uncertain," adds Smith.

According to Birmingham city council member Johnathan Austin: the city won't take up the funding issue Tuesday. In fact he says the city is exploring other options for animal control service providers.