That's the number of additional dogs and cats that found homes this past weekend through Animal Haven's off-site adoption center at our local mall that they've set up over the holidays. I mentioned this program last week.
That's 69 more dogs and cats that found forever homes that may or may not have found homes otherwise, or who's owners may have purchased instead of adopted.
That's just in the first week of operation in a high-traffic retail location. That's 10 animals a day.
It's a great program. And it's finding dozens of animals homes that may not otherwise have found one.
Congrats to Animal Haven and their sponsors for a great program. And while keeping a retail location is great -- and great for the animals - it still takes volunteer time to keep it open. So if you have some time off for the holidays and want to help out, contact the fine folks at Animal Haven and they can put you to work and continue putting pets in good homes.
More pets into homes - yay!
I'd be interested to know if they are taking pets representative of the shelter. IOW, if the shelter is 50% large black mixed breeds, is 50% of the stock in the retail outlet made up of large black mixed breeds?
Posted by: YesBiscuit | December 02, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Animal Haven is a no kill shelter that serves 11 different communities on the Kansas side of the state line. So I'm fairly certain it is mostly representative of the shelter. They need to get as many dogs and cats adopted as possible. The one thing they won't have at the Oak Park Mall location are any of the bully breeds, as they are banned in the particular juristiction where the mall is located. But otherwise I'd guess that the animals are fairly representative.
Posted by: Brent | December 02, 2009 at 11:23 AM
I really, really like this idea! Too often, shelters (especially our municipal ones) are off in the boonies or in industrial areas where no one wants to go.
Glad to hear that it is proving to be successful. :)
Posted by: Rinalia | December 02, 2009 at 01:00 PM
If they are truly adopting out pets representative of the shelter then that - in this case at least - disproves critics who say you could only do a retail outlet if you pick all small/cute/young dogs. If they can get what's IN the shelter OUT by putting them in a mall outlet, that's AWESOME!
Posted by: YesBiscuit! | December 02, 2009 at 02:49 PM
This is awesome!! What a smart idea!
Posted by: KC KS Kills Dogs | December 02, 2009 at 04:48 PM