HELP Pets! Find their Forever Home
August 15 is Clear The Shelters. Hundreds of shelters are taking part in a nationwide push to find forever homes for pets in need. Many shelters and rescue organizations have agreed to cut the cost of adoption for this wonderful one-day event. This event is sponsored by 11 NBC owned television stations and 17 Telemundo owned stations.
Check your local NBC and Telemundo stations.
If you are from Chicago, here are the list of shelters participating
(from NBC 5 Chicago)
Anderson Animal Shelter: 1000 S. LaFox St., Elgin
Animal Outreach Humane Society: 5408 Greenbrier Dr., McHenry
Animal Welfare League: 10305 SW Highway, Chicago Ridge
Anti-Cruelty Society: 157 W. Grand Ave., Chicago
Cache Creek Animal Rescue: 1003 Star Lane, New Lenox
CatNap from the Heart: 1101 Beach Ave., LaGrange Park
Famous Fido Rescue & Adoption Alliance: 5430 N. Clark St., Chicago
Felines & Canines: 6379 N. Paulina, Chicago
Found Chicago: 4108 N. Rockwell St., Chicago
Harmony House: 2914 N. Elston, Chicago
Help Save Pets (Animal Care Center): 14411 S. Route 59, Plainfield
Help Save Pets (Hinsdale Animal Hospital): 218 W. Ogden Ave., Hinsdale
Help Save Pets (Mallard Point Veterinary Clinic): 25520 S. Pheasant Lane, Channahon
Help Save Pets (Oswego Animal Hospital): 1280 Route 34, Oswego
Hinsdale Humane Society: 22 N. Elm, Hinsdale
Humane Society Calumet Area: 421 45th Ave., Munster, Ind.
Kankakee County Animal Care and Control: 1270 Stanford Drive, Kankakee
McHenry County Animal Care and Control: 100 N. Virginia St., Crystal Lake
Michiana Humane Society: 722 IN-212, Michigan City, Ind.
Naperville Area Humane Society: 1620 W. Diehl Road, Naperville
NAWS Illinois Humane Society: 9981 190th St., Mokena
On Angels’ Wings, Inc.: 5186 Northwest Hwy #133, Crystal Lake
One Tail at a Time: 2144 N Wood Street, Chicago
Orphans of the Storm: 2200 Riverwoods Road, Riverwoods
PAWS Chicago: 1997 N. Clybourn, Chicago
PAWS Tinley Park: 8301 191st St., Tinley Park
Save-A-Pet Adoption Center: 31664 N. Fairfield Road, Grayslake
South Suburban Humane Society: 1103 West End Ave., Chicago Heights
Tails Humane Society: 2250 Barber Greene Road, DeKalb
Treehouse Humane Society: 1212 W. Carmen Ave. and 1629 N. Ashland, Chicago
West Suburban Humane Society: 1901 Ogden Ave., Downers Grove
Humane Society Calumet Area: 421 45th St., Munster, Indiana
Wright Way Rescue: 5915 Lincoln Ave., Morton Grove
If you are from Los Angeles/ Southern California, check the map for shelters participating (from NBC LA)
HELP! Clear The Shelters
It is a wonderful cause and what NBC fails to mention, is that tomorrow is International Homeless Animals Day, an event that was created by ISAR online and began back in 1992. You can learn more about it here https://isaronline.org/ (and I am blogging about it tomorrow on Cody’s blog)
Aw. 🙂
We thought this was a great idea. We hopes everys dog and kitten finds a home …a great forever home.
stella rose
Such a wonderful cause!!
We purr that there are a lot of adoptions today!
Oh, that is a FABulous cause Sugar!!! I hopes lots of puppers, kittehs, and other furries find their furever homes today!!
Kisses,
Ruby ♥
Its really a great work to find their forever home 🙂