Are you looking for a new best friend? Now is a great time to adopt a dog or cat for free. The Haven is teaming up with Best Friends Animal Society and more than 270 other partner rescue groups across the country to offer fee-waived adoptions, in hopes of finding homes for 10,000 pets in 10 days. All cats and dogs age 12-months and older will have their adoption fee waived.
The adopt fees were covered by generous animal lovers who wanted to Pay It Forward and help send homeless dogs and cats home over the summer holiday.
“If you get excited when a stranger pays for your coffee, image the joy you’ll feel when adopting a pet whose adoption fee has been covered, “said Julie Castle, cheif executive officer of Best Friends Animal Society.
Getting adoptable pets into homes is..
crucial this time of year, as each July, shelters across the country flood with dogs and cats. Many of those intakes happen around the July 4th holiday, when driven by a fearful reaction to fireworks and other loud sights and sounds, pets flee from their homes and end up in local animal shelters.
“Each 4th of July holiday season, The Haven reminds the community about the important pet safety tips using press releases to the media, our website, and social media. We are thrilled about this promotion and will use the same adoption criteria we use on a regular basis. We hope to place an additional 25 homeless cats and dogs into loving homes,” said Michael Graham, executive director of The Haven.
To preview adoptable pets at The Haven, click Adoptable Dogs or Adoptable Cats. From playful youngsters to sweet seniors, pets from The Haven are fixed, vaccinated, micro-chipped, dewormed, treated for ticks/fleas/heartworms, come with 30-days of free pet health insurance, a free bag of Hill’s Science Diet and much more.
This adoption promotion is part of Best Friends Animal Society’s Save Them All campaign to save the lives of dogs and cats in America’s shelters. The Haven is a Best Friends Network Partner. For more information, visit www.save-them-all.org
About Best Friends Animal Society
Best Friends Animal Society is a leading national animal welfare organization dedicated to ending the killing of dogs and cats in America’s shelters. In addition to running lifesaving programs in partnership with more than 2,200 animal welfare groups across the country, Best Friends has regional centers in New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Salt Lake City, and operates the nation’s largest no-kill sanctuary for companion animals. Founded in 1984, Best Friends is a pioneer in the no-kill movement and has helped reduce the number of animals killed in shelters nationwide from 17 million per year to about 1.5 million. That means there are still more than 4,100 dogs and cats killed every day in shelters, just because they don’t have safe places to call home. We are determined to get that number to zero by the year 2025. Working collaboratively with shelters, rescue groups, other organizations and you, we will end the killing and Save Them All. For more information, visit bestfriends.org.
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