It’s raining cats and dogs at BARCS
After today, there are only two more Sundays left in May to take advantage of discounted $5 adoptions at Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter.
As part of a “Love in Bloom” special, BARCS — faced with its annual inundation of cats and a slowdown in adoptions – is offering the Sundays-only special until the end of the month. The special applies to dogs and cats, normally $65 to adopt.
“Adoptions are going very slow for all shelters and rescue groups at this time. This is causing tremendous heartbreak, especially for BARCS since we are required to accept all animals brought to us even when are shelter is full,” said BARCS Executive Director Jennifer Mead.
BARCS is also looking for volunteers to foster kittens that aren’t old enough to be adopted, and in some cases need to be bottle fed.
“Fostering animals helps by making room in our shelter for other animals coming in,” Mead said. “On Thursday May 14th alone, we took in 62 cats and kittens and 17 dogs. This is just one example of the high volumes of animals we receive every day.”
For more information, visit BARCS website, or call 410-396-4695.
Posted by jwoestendiek May 17th, 2009 under Muttsblog.
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