Between December 3 and 18, we found homes for 415 pets whose adoption fees were all paid by Priority Automotive. This is the fifth year that Priority Automotive has given the lasting gift of love and companionship to pets adopted from our center, and Priority's heroism continues.
Each adoption from our humane center fuels further lifesaving. Although visitors may be most familiar with the adoption counselors who've helped them meet the dogs and cats who become their new best friends, there's another team at work for whom every adoption is an opportunity. Our admissions counselors work with other shelters, saving animals in need of transferring who will fill the kennels and cages just emptied by the pet going home with his new family.
As we’ve been sending so many pets home over the last few weeks, the Richmond SPCA has reached out to shelters within the state of Virginia and across the Southeastern region offering help to those animals that have limited options for adoption. Today volunteers from the Humane Society of Tazewell County brought 15 dogs, including three newborn puppies and their mom, to the Richmond SPCA where they will be prepared for adoption.
These dogs were at the Tazewell Animal Shelter, where Animal Control Officer Ginny Dawson says, "This time of year is so hard for us to find placement for animals, which is why this transport is so important to us."
As they departed Tazewell County this morning, they were driven away by Santa in a van marked "Santa's Sleigh... Barking all the way!"
It was possible for the Richmond SPCA to save these dogs precisely because we have found lasting, loving homes for so many pets in recent days. In the days ahead, they and other new arrivals from our transfer partners will be given veterinary examinations, spay and neuter surgeries, essential vaccinations and any veterinary treatment or behavioral rehabilitation they may need before becoming available for adoption.
Watch for new faces to appear on our dog and cat adoption pages, and visit our Robins-Starr Humane Center which will be open on Christmas Eve from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. While we are closed to the public on Christmas Day, our staff and volunteers will be at work ensuring that every pet in our care is warm, clean and loved until each one finds a home of his own.
Tabitha Frizzell Treloar is the director of communications for the Richmond SPCA. To read her biography or that of our other bloggers, please click here. Before posting a comment, please review our comment guidelines. Please note that our comment policy requires both your first and last name to be used as your screen name.
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