SLCo Animal Services Opens New Community Cat Room

Salt Lake County Animal Services
Celebrates the Opening of

New Community Cat Room

Salt Lake County Animal Services received a $8,330 grant from PetSmart Charities® earlier this year to create a community cat room to further increase shelter adoptions. The organization’s new focus on pet adoptions has been breaking agency adoption records and far exceeding average live release rates seen in other agencies across the state.

Salt Lake County Animal Services handles over 10,000 lost and abandoned pets each year. A recent focus on foster, adoption and rescue programs for animals that are not successfully reunited with owners has been very successful. “The goal of our agency is to eliminate the euthanasia of adoptable cats in our shelter by the end of 2011,” says Shawni Larrabee, Director. “We are very excited about the new cat community room where the cats can enjoy a more engaging, stimulating and less stressful stay here at the shelter.” For more information about shelter programs including the County Free Cat Adoption program, visit www.adoptutahpets.com.

"Salt Lake County Animal Service’s efforts to promote and facilitate pet adoptions in the community are making important progress toward reducing shelter euthanasia," said Susana Della Maddalena, executive director of PetSmart Charities, Inc. "Innovative and collaborative programs like this are what is chipping away at the problem nationwide, making communities better places for pets along the way."


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