August is National Dog Month, with the monthlong celebration culminating in a particular commemorative 24 hours, National Dog Day.
Shelters and rescues throughout the United States have a good time our canine buddies your entire month, usually holding occasions and providing specials.
This 12 months, National Dog Day lands on Saturday, Aug. 26, and Utah shelters are celebrating man’s finest buddy by aiming to get as many homeless pooches as attainable adopted into loving properties.
Dogs in shelters all through the U.S., together with in Utah, are on the highest danger of being killed since 2017, in keeping with Utah-founded Best Friends Animal Society’s latest data releasethe Deseret News lately reported.
“In 2022, 1,700 dogs and cats were killed in animal shelters across Utah,” Best Friends’ site reads. Not all of Utah’s shelters are no-killhowever supporting your native animal shelter can assist it accomplish or keep no-kill standing.
For Utahns which might be in or across the Salt Lake Valley and trying to welcome a furry buddy into their properties, National Dog Day could be the excellent alternative to undertake from two native shelters in want of adopters — West Valley City Animal Shelter and Salt Lake County Animal Services.
West Valley City Animal Shelter
West Valley City Animal Services operates a municipal no-kill shelter that serves residents in each West Valley City and Taylorsville, Utah.
Hannah Wright, a volunteer who runs West Valley City Animal Shelter’s Instagram pageis hoping for an excellent group turnout on the shelter’s National Dog Day adoption occasion — the place 29 of the shelter’s adoptable dogs might be in attendance.
The occasion is being held on-site on the shelter on Saturday, Aug. 26 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., giving potential adopters the chance to satisfy animals on a weekend when the shelter is normally closed. Potential adopters are additionally welcome to carry their pets to make sure a correct match, in keeping with Wright.
“A lot of the dogs are pretty kennel crazy right now, it’s just such a stressful environment for them,” Wright says. “But once you get them out, they’re amazing dogs.”
All of the dogs up for adoption come spayed or neutered, microchipped and updated on vaccines, in keeping with Wright. The dogs additionally include a collar, harness or leash.
For the rest of August, the adoption price for a canine from West Valley City Animal Shelter is $20, or adopters can donate college provides for native colleges in lieu of a price, Wright says.
“We have a range of small to large, young and old — we have an 8-week-old puppy all the way up to an 8-year-old Cane Corso mix,” she says. “We have a big range of dogs right now that we would love to find homes for.”
Screenshot from West Valley City Animal Service’s Facebook web page
Salt Lake County Animal Services
Salt Lake County Animal Services can also be a municipal operation, and the Salt Lake County Animal Shelter is the most important no-kill municipal shelter in Utah, in keeping with the organization.
“We serve the citizens and pets of Bluffdale, Holladay, Midvale, Millcreek, Murray, Salt Lake City, and the Salt Lake County Metro Townships: Brighton, Copperton, County Islands, Emigration Canyon, Kearns, Magna, and White City,” the organization’s site reads.
What differentiates each Salt Lake County Animal Services and West Valley City Animal Shelter from animal rescues is that, as a result of they’re municipal operations, the majority of their dogs had been deserted or discovered as strays.
If the animals are nonetheless on the shelter after the necessary 5 business day maintain, they legally belong to the shelter, in keeping with Jami Johanson, growth coordinator at Salt Lake County Animal Services. At that time, the animals are spayed or neutered, vaccinated and microchipped by the shelter’s in-house veterinarian, and positioned for adoption.
Salt Lake County Animal Services is open on Saturdays, and people can browse adoptable pets and finalize adoptions from 10 a.m. to five p.m. For the rest of National Dog Month, “we’re doing pick your price adoption fees, and the minimum is a dollar,” Johanson says. The shelter additionally presents a foster-to-adopt program, the place potential adopters can take a pet home to see if it’s an excellent match earlier than formally adopting.
“Right now we’re just full — we’re in the triple digits,” she says. “We’re just out of space, we need adopters.”
Screenshot from Salt Lake County Animals Service’s Facebook web page
