SAN DIEGO–County Animal Services is waiving all adoption fees for its animals July 23 as part of the Clear the Shelters pet adoption campaign.
For the second year in a row, nearly a dozen local shelters will join a one-day, all-out push in cities around the country to give every shelter animal a home.
At County Animal Services, qualified applicants can get adoption fees waived for kittens, cats, puppies, dogs, rabbits and chickens. If they don’t get adopted before then, a turtle, a parakeet and even a green iguana will be available.
Dogs and cats will be altered, vaccinated and microchipped; rabbits will be altered and microchipped at no cost to the adopter.
During last year’s event, about a third of the available pets at the county’s shelters found new homes: 288 of 743. The number of adoptions more than tripled for a normal Saturday.
