The Orange County Animal Care shelter in Tustin, California, is waiving adoption fees for small pets through Christmas Eve, including cats, birds, bunnies, hamsters, and guinea pigs.
Launching the program was Orange County Supervisor Lisa Bartlett, who allocated $30,000 to the shelter from the county’s portion of the American Rescue Plan Act, a federal program intended to help local governments recover from the pandemic.
The event follows an initiative last month where Bartlett allocated $100,000 from her district to waive all adoption fees at the county-run shelter, where 544 pets were adopted out, according to her office.
(Courtesy of Orange County Supervisor Lisa Bartlett’s office)
“We had such an overwhelming response from the community during our November pet adoption event, that we decided to keep it going through the month of December, but this time with a focus on cat adoptions and other small animals,” Bartlett said in a statement sent to The Epoch Times….