{"id":2413,"date":"2015-08-20T21:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T21:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/pets\/national-clear-the-shelters-day-very-nearly-did-2\/"},"modified":"2015-08-20T21:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T21:00:52","slug":"national-clear-the-shelters-day-very-nearly-did-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/pets\/national-clear-the-shelters-day-very-nearly-did-2","title":{"rendered":"National ‘Clear the Shelters Day’ Very Nearly Did"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Even Tickle Me Elmo didn’t have it this good. Photo courtesy of Long Beach Animal Care Services.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cClear the Shelters<\/a>,\u201d a daylong nationwide push to get adoptable pets into forever homes, was a huge success, with 18,966 cats and dogs adopted nationwide at a rate of $20 per pet. The event took place August 15 and the usual screening standards were in place.<\/p>\n

NBC 4 and Telemundo promoted the event in SoCal and deemed it a huge enough success, with over 2,500 animals into forever homes, to do it again next year<\/a>. In fact, the date’s been set for Saturday, July 16, 2016.<\/p>\n

Locally, the city’s Long Beach Animal Care Services<\/a> and spcaLA<\/a>, an independent nonprofit animal welfare organization serving SoCal, both participated, and there was a line of potential adopters wrapped around the P.D. Pitchford Companion Animal Village. ACS and spcaLA share the venue, and spcaLA handles adoption procedures for both.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was crazy awesome,\u201d said Kelly Miott, ACS\u2019s outreach coordinator. \u201cIt seemed like the adopters were here because they felt like they were part of a movement.  It was like Christmas walking the line to find out who was in line to adopt whom. So many cat adopters\u2014I spoke speaking with a few they already had a cat, I think they felt compelled to welcome another family member. After all, what\u2019s one more mouth to feed?\u201d<\/p>\n

In all, 92 animals were adopted between both entities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s safe to say that this was the largest adoption event at the Village,\u201d Miott said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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