Column: Don’t overlook massive canine at shelters, they want your massive love, too

Final weekend, Pasadena Humane discovered new properties for an astonishing 195 cats at CatCon, the largest cat-centric popular culture occasion on the planet devoted to all issues feline.

In case you love cats, and you’ve got by no means been to CatCon, subsequent yr it’s essential to go!

The occasion is hosted proper right here on the Pasadena Conference Heart. It attracts 1000’s of individuals from close to and much — together with firefighters from Australia this yr.

The distributors are wonderful. I used to be particularly impressed by a cat-sized piano that dispenses treats when your cat performs a notice or two.

Whereas we have been overjoyed to seek out properties for thus lots of our feline pals on the CatCon adoption village sponsored by Hill’s Pet Vitamin, the truth is that we nonetheless have a whole lot of animals on the lookout for new properties.

Summer time is the busiest time of yr for animal admissions at shelters nationwide, together with Pasadena Humane. If you’re seeking to undertake or foster, we want your assist now.

Final month, we took in 636 companion animals, a mean of 21 animals per day. To place issues in perspective, every day throughout this identical time interval, 10 animals have been adopted and two misplaced pets have been reunited with their house owners.

These numbers level to 1 factor — our kennels are full, and we want the neighborhood’s assist discovering properties for the pets in our shelter.

In fact, adopting a pet is essentially the most fast method you may assist. And, there are such a lot of different methods you can also make a distinction. Changing into a shelter volunteer, fostering, making a donation, or sharing adoptable pets on social media are only a few.

Our shelter is especially in want of adopters and fosters for giant breed canine.

Of their lately revealed State of Shelter Adoption Report, our pals at Hill’s Pet Vitamin discovered that whereas 66% of People are prone to undertake shelter pets, lower than one in 4 survey respondents have been prone to undertake an enormous canine.

Now we have many giant canine in our care proper now together with huskies, shepherds, bully breeds, and mixes of every kind. We also have a Saint Bernard.

This Sunday, Aug. 11, we’re having “Doggy Velocity Relationship” for folk thinking about fostering a big canine. The occasion is free. We simply ask that you just go to our web site to sign-up for an hour between 11 a.m.- 2 p.m. to fulfill some fantastic pooches.

If courting leads to a match, it is possible for you to to take your foster canine house that day.

We offer our foster volunteers with all the mandatory provides, together with meals and veterinary care. And, now we have a 24/7 emergency response system for foster mother and father to make sure that each the animals and our volunteers are all the time supported.

We’re asking households to foster “Velocity Relationship” canine for six nights, so it’s lower than week-long dedication.

The canine get a pleasant break from the shelter, whereas fosters collect extra info that can assist us make a everlasting reference to an adoptive household throughout our Clear the Shelters free-adoption occasion the next weekend.

In collaboration with NBC-4 and Telemundo-52, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, August 17, we’ll be waiving the adoption charges for all out there pets, together with canine, cats and critters. Plus, all canine, cats, and rabbits might be spayed/neutered, microchipped and updated on vaccines.

To be taught extra about methods to undertake, foster, volunteer, or donate, go to pasadenahumane.org

Dia DuVernet is president and CEO of Pasadena Humane.

This weblog publish initially appeared as a column within the Pasadena Star-Information on August 9, 2024.