Thousands of pets in San Diego County shelters are waiting for the day they find their 'furever' home, and a South Bay shelter just received a $50,700 grant to…
The grant will be used by the Chula Vista Animal Care Facility to provide vital financial support to families struggling to keep their petsThousands of pets in San Diego County shelters are waiting for the day they find their"furever" home, and a South Bay shelter just received a $50,700 grant to help them get there.
The grant was awarded to Chula Vista Animal Services by California for All Animals via UC Davis. It will be used by the Chula Vista Animal Care Facility to provide vital financial support to families struggling to keep their pets.The shelter itself is struggling to keep up with an influx of animals. Deputy Director of Animal Services Ashley Milo said it has been over capacity since 2021.Ideally, they’d have no more than 80 dogs in their care at any one time.
A large chunk of the grant money, $30,000, will go toward financial assistance for those pet owners, so they can reclaim their animals. The money will also be used to purchase a tag engraving machine, so they can send 1,500 reclaimed and adopted dogs home with tags and collars. That way, if they get lost, they will hopefully be returned directly to their owner and not end up back at the shelter.
“All we can do at the moment is help one at a time,” Milo said. “But if we can help the community, we turn that into millions of people that can help and that’s greater than anything that I could ask for.”
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