The people at Muttville are seeing unprecedented charges of senior dogs being euthanized at different shelters, they usually’re responding with an enormous push to soak up and discover houses for 100 of these lovable mutts.
It is a proud San Francisco custom that we’ve got puppies within the home windows of the Union Square Macy’s, with all of them hopefully discovering houses via SF SPCA adoption. But on the opposite finish of the canine age spectrum, the elder doggos of Muttville senior canine rescue are more durable to seek out adoptive houses for, as they don’t seem to be little puppies. Though they might be decrease upkeep!
And NBC Bay Area studies that Muttville is seeing a “crisis” of older dogs being euthanized at different shelters across the state. But they’re barking again on the disaster with a canine adoption blitz to take in 100 dogs with 100 hours from different shelters, and get these senior dogs a eternally home for the vacations.
Muttville CEO Sherri Franklin advised NBC Bay Area that “Just within the final month, I acquired three separate pressing shelter assist emails that had been completely different than they’d been earlier than, [saying] ‘We’re beginning to need to euthanize adoptable dogs for house as a result of we’ve run out of house.’”
And Muttville is making superb progress on that purpose. They’re on tempo to hit the purpose of 100 new dogs taken in, they usually’ve already discovered everlasting houses for 33 of these dogs.
The dogs are usually not from San Francisco. Muttville takes in senior dogs from different companies, which not like Muttville, usually maintain the dogs in cages and euthanize them if they’ll’t discover adopters. The Muttville dogs come from shelters and animal care companies from locations like Monterey, Amador, Fresno, Kern, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Sacramento, Sutter, and Stanislaus counties.
If you’re inclined to undertake, Muttville has posted their roster of dogs available so you may adopt a senior dog. You also can foster a canine for the brief time period. Pop by Muttville at 255 Alabama Street (at sixteenth Street). Or if you happen to simply need to donate to Muttvillethey’re at the moment operating a matching gift program.
Related: Video: About The SF Woman Who Started Muttville Senior Dog Rescue [SFist]
Image: Aquableu C. via Yelp
