There’s still time to find a new forever friend this Fourth of July Weekend through the #Freedom100 Pet Adoption Marathon in Mission Hills.
Until 8 p.m. Sunday, the Best Friends Pet Adoption & Spay/Neuter Center will stay open 24/7 to help find homes for hundreds of cats, dogs, kittens and puppies, all of which are spayed or neutered, vaccinated, microchipped and available to take home immediately.
As of Saturday evening, the Best Friends Center was still offering $10 adoptions for the first 100 pets homed, and more than 400 dogs and cats were available for adoption from the shelter when the campaign kicked off Friday at noon.
The goal of the #Freedom100 marathon is not only to find homes for animals who are already in shelters, but also to make room for the high volume of animals that end up in Los Angeles area shelters around the Fourth of July each year, many after becoming scared of fireworks and running away from home.
"The goal is to get a hundred dogs and cats into homes," Michelle Sathe of the Best Friends Animal Society said. "July Fourth is the highest shelter intake time of the year."
LA Animal Services, which provides the Best Friends Center with all of its adoptable animals, experiences a 43 percent increase in new animals taken into shelters around the Fourth of July holiday, Sathe said.
For more information about the #Freedom100 Pet Adoption Marathon, visit the Los Angeles Best Friends Society website.
