WELCOME TO RUNNING FOR RESCUES
Do me a favor and read the two bullet points below:
- Approximately 5 million to 7 million companion animals enter animal shelters nationwide every year, and approximately 3 million to 4 million are euthanized (60 percent of dogs and 70 percent of cats). Shelter intakes are about evenly divided between those animals relinquished by owners and those picked up by animal control. These are national estimates; the percentage of euthanasia may vary from state to state.
- Five out of ten dogs in shelters and seven out of ten cats in shelters are destroyed simply because there is no one to adopt them.
I’m not a mathematician, but if you lowball that first figure and say that 5 million animals are killed yearly in shelters around the country, that comes out to 13,698.63 animals a day, right? A DAY.
Are you OK with that? Me neither.
I can’t adopt any more pets, and you probably can’t either. Once in a while I will foster an animal - maybe you do, too. But clearly that’s not enough.
So now what?
Keep digging around the website and find out more!
Are you OK with that? Me neither.
I can’t adopt any more pets, and you probably can’t either. Once in a while I will foster an animal - maybe you do, too. But clearly that’s not enough.
So now what?
- Run with us – even if you get winded eating a cookie.
- Run with us – even if you’ve been there, done that.
- Run with us – save the life of a shelter pet.
Keep digging around the website and find out more!
