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Preparations are underway for a novel baseball-themed adoption occasion at a South Jersey animal shelter this Sunday.
In honor of the beginning of the baseball season, for the primary time ever, guests on the Burlington County Animal Shelter won’t solely have the ability to meet the animals on the lookout for without end houses, however they’ll additionally play carnival video games, snack on scorching dogs, and revel in an thrilling competitors between two very uncommon groups.
Shelter director Ericka Haines stated a baseball ‘Field of Dreams’ has been marked off, and the Burlington Strays, an all-dog group, will tackle the County Cats for shelter bragging rights.
“Every adoption is considered a home run,” she stated. “So, every time an animal gets adopted, one of the mascots, whether it’s a dog or it’s a cat, will do a run of the bases and initiate a home run.”
She defined the “mascots” for these groups will probably be people.
One of the star gamers on the canine group is a Cane Corso named Miss Bella.
“She is about three or four years old, she definitely can run the bases, she is absolutely breathtaking,” Haines stated.
Captaining the County Cats is Chuckie, a dapper 7-year-old Domestic Shorthair.
Haines stated shelters can generally be intimidating.
“So we’re just trying to give everybody a different showcase to really see the greatness our animals have outside of the kennels,” she stated.
