County Animal Services Joins ‘Getting to Zero’ Campaign
As part of the San Diego Animal Welfare Coalition, County Animal Services and six other animal sheltering organizations in the region launched a “Getting to Zero” campaign Wednesday to stop the unnecessary euthanasia of homeless animals.
The organizations in this region have not euthanized a healthy animal in approximately 10 years. This new initiative would extend that to “treatable” animals. A treatable animal is defined as an animal that has a medical or behavioral condition that can be “healthy” with reasonable efforts.
Currently, about 45,000 animals enter shelters throughout the county every year. As of July 1, any coalition member that runs out of space to house treatable animals can now approach another in the group to take in the homeless pets. It is also the partnerships with rescue groups and finding foster homes that will help make this possible.
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