With pet adoptions down, the Seattle Animal Shelter is urging residents to help pets find "A Home 4 for the Holidays."
The national program started in 1999 in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., and encourages families to adopt pets from shelters. Last year, it helped place 300,000 pets in homes nationwide; the goal is to place as many as possible, and ideally all, of a shelter's potential pets.
But at Seattle's shelter, adoptions are down about 20 percent, from 3,000 to 3,200 last year to 2,400 so far this year, according to Don Jordan, the shelter's director.
"We don't want people to be alarmed ... but we want those pets to be out in homes," Jordan said.
"Our whole push is trying to get folks to realize the connection people can have with animals, and the role they play in people's lives," especially for the elderly and families, he said.
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If you want to add a family member to your household this Christmas, please consider adopting it from an animal shelter, to save it from being killed. To find out what shelters near you may be participating in Home 4 the Holidays, please click here: http://www.animalcenter.org/home4theholidays/
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