On April 30 San Marcos Regional Animal Shelter will celebrate National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day by allowing college students to have a discounted price for shelter animals.
Regional Animal Shelter is offering this due to the overcapacity in their Kennels, they have 93 dog kennels and almost 160 dogs currently in their shelter.
If you are unable to adopt a dog right now you can still help in other ways, like fostering, donating, and volunteering. The shelter offers a “Dog Day Out” program that allows those who volunteer to take a dog out for the day. This allows the dogs to have time out of the shelter so they aren’t cooped up. The program is also helpful because “It is also really beneficial for the dogs because they get out of the loud shelter environment, we get notes [and] we get photos,” said Buckhaults.
The Dogs Day Out program allows those who want to adopt a dog but don’t feel like they’re ready to have a day to test the waters and spend time with a dog. The Dogs Day Out program offers dogs for a day out Mondays and Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., and on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Local animal advocate group PALS (Pet Prevent A Litter) is a nonprofit spay and neuter pet hospital that will be offering students free surgical sterilizations for their pets in honor of National Adopts a Pet Day. Contact PALS at Preventalitter.com
PALS is also hosting a Pet Food Pantry every Saturday of the month from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. for those who may not have enough to buy their pet’s food.
