FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Make a Difference: Adopt a Pet This Weekend |
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Los Angeles, October 29, 2021 – LA Animal Services is urgently seeking animal-loving Angelenos to adopt or foster a pet as our shelters near capacity. Our Centers are filled with amazing dogs, cats, and kittens who are already spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped, and ready to meet you and be a part of your family. Visit our website to see the pets available for adoption.
“We’ve leaned on our community in times of need and have never been let down,” said Dana Brown, LA Animal Services General Manager. “We hope we can rely on their support again as we ask them to adopt or foster a pet looking for their new home..”
As kennel space is becoming limited, LA Animal Services is encouraging pet owners who are thinking of surrendering their pet to explore available alternatives, like Home to Home, Safety Net Foster, or inquiring with friends and family, before relinquishing to the shelters.
Center Operating Hours
Our six LA Animal Services locations are operating without appointments every Saturday and Sunday, from 11am to 5pm. We will continue to operate by appointment during the week, Tuesday through Friday, for pet adoptions, fostering, and owner surrender, with Centers closed on Mondays. Sick or injured animals will be admitted without an appointment. Appointments may be scheduled by going online or by calling 1-888-452-7381.
To follow COVID-19 safety protocols, social distancing will be observed and face coverings will be required when in our Centers.
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If you are unable to adopt a pet to give them a break from shelter life, please consider fostering. You can foster a dog for a day, to a week, to up to three months. Fostering an animal companion also offers additional opportunities for these pets ready for adoption to meet potential adopters during outings in and around their neighborhoods.
If you would like to foster a dog, please follow these steps:
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Visit laanimalservices.com/adopt and identify an animal you would like to foster.
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Email the volunteer liaison at ani.volunteers@lacity.org with your completed foster application (if you have not fostered before), a picture of your government-issued identification with photo (i.e., driver’s license), and the Animal ID number(s) of the pets you are interested in fostering.
- We will call you once your application is reviewed to schedule an appointment.
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If you would like to foster a cat, we recommend fostering a feline friend for a minimum of two weeks. When you foster an animal, you’ll be able to provide helpful information to the Centers about the cat’s unique traits and personalities, which can then be shared with interested adopters.
If you would like to foster a cat, please follow these steps:
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Visit laanimalservices.com/adopt and identify an animal you would like to foster.
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Email the volunteer liaison at ani.volunteers@lacity.org with your completed foster application (if you have not fostered before), a picture of your government-issued identification with photo (i.e., driver’s license), and the Animal ID number(s) of the pets you are interested in fostering.
- We will call you once your application is reviewed to schedule an appointment.
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Looking for Kitten Volunteer Fosters
If you have been approved to foster kittens with LA Animal Services, email your district's lifesaving liaison and Thomas Kalinowski at thomas.kalinowski@lacity.org to be set up with your foster kittens.
LA Animal Services is always looking for foster volunteers who can care for bottle baby kittens -- kittens who are learning to eat on their own -- as well as sick kittens and moms with litters.. Help save the lives of these vulnerable feline friends. Be a foster volunteer lifesaver! Complete the foster application and email it to ani.volunteers@lacity.org..
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For more information about adopting or fostering a pet from LA Animal Services, or how you can support and donate to help the pets in our care, visit laanimalservices.com.
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LA Animal Services promotes and protects the health, safety, and welfare of animals and the people who love them, and is one of the largest municipal shelter systems in the United States. With six Centers across the City, LA Animal Services serves approximately 60,000 animals annually and responds to 20,000 emergency calls involving animals or people in danger. LA Animal Services is part of the Human Animal Support Services (HASS) international coalition, joining 38 municipal shelters and animal welfare organizations across the country to reimagine and transform the way shelters care for animals and their families, by offering access to resources to help keep families together; getting lost pets home quickly without having to enter the shelter system; providing food and medical assistance; and continuing to build on a strong adoption and foster program so pets find their permanent homes or are placed in foster care. Visit our link.tree for helpful links to the services and resources available to you and your companion animals. Connect with LA Animal Services and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram.
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