The Animal Rescue League of Berks County’s new cellular adoption and clinic unit, a custom-outfitted 2024 Ford E450. (Courtesy of Jose Joel Delgado Rivera – Animal Rescue League of Berks County)
The Animal Rescue League of Berks County is hitting the street with a cellular pet adoption unit and clinic that can present vaccines and microchips to communities within the county.
The ARL on Saturday unveiled its new cellular unit, a 26-foot-long 2024 Ford E450. It has 18 built-in cages on board and 14 of these have a divider that may be eliminated to create seven giant cages, mentioned José Joel Delgado-Rivera, the ARL’s chief communications officer. The remaining 4 smaller cages might be used for kittens, rabbits or guinea pigs.
The automobile additionally includes a sink, fridge for vaccines, examination desk, scale, air con and heater.
It cost $204,591 and was outfitted by Magnum Mobile Specialty Vehicles in Phoenix, Ariz. The largest portion of the financing was supplied by a $75,000 grant from Petco Love, a nonprofit animal welfare charity that began in 1999 because the Petco Foundation. The visible graphics wrap was achieved by Dark Side Vinyl Graphix & Signs in Spring Township.
The remainder of the invoice was coated by different donors, Delgado-Rivera mentioned Monday.
“We plan to utilize the van to simultaneously bring our low-cost and subsidized veterinary care to underserved communities throughout the county and be present at community and ARL-organized events to facilitate adoptions of pets in the field,” Ashley Mikulsky, ARL CEO, mentioned in an announcement Monday.
The ARL mentioned it’s usually current at greater than 50 neighborhood occasions in a 12 months and it’ll now deliver the unit to every of these occasions. A schedule of the place the cellular adoption and clinic unit will seem might be posted at www.berksarl.org.
“Our investment in the Animal Rescue League of Berks County is part of more than $15 million in investments recently announced by Petco Love to power local organizations across the country as part of our commitment to create a future in which no pet is unnecessarily euthanized,” Susanne Kogut, president of Petco Love, mentioned within the launch.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the automobile was held Saturday in entrance of the Petco retailer within the Exeter Commons purchasing heart in Exeter Township.
