Midnight adoptions Miami-Dade Animal Services, the Humane Society of Greater Miami and The Cat Network to host 24-hour ASPCA® Mega Match-a-thon presented by Subaru next weekend
Community Support Needed to Find Homes for Animals and Save More Lives
(MIAMI, October 6, 2014) – Fall in love with a shelter pet during the ASPCA® Mega-Match-a-thon 24-hour pet adoption event and family festival beginning on October 17, 2014, at 11:59 p.m. and ending on October 18, 2014, at 11:59 p.m. at Tropical Park, 7900 SW 40 St., Miami, FL 33155.
Miami-Dade County Animal Services, the Humane Society of Greater Miami, the Cat Network, Inc. and local rescue groups will host the 24-hour pet adoption event and family festival as part of nationwide large-scale pet adoption event held simultaneously nationwide in an effort to save more lives of shelter animals.
The event features low-cost pet adoptions in a festive fall themed atmosphere that includes round-the-clock entertainment, food vendors, live music, and food trucks. The event will also host the Miami HEAT DANCERS, Billy the Marlin, and the Miami Marlins Energy Team. Children’s activities include story time at 7 p.m. followed by a family friendly movie on the lawn at 8 p.m.
For more information, visit animals.miamidade.gov or call 3-1-1.
Miami-Dade County Animal Services
Unlike limited admission facilities, Miami-Dade County Animal Services Department takes in all abandoned pets to its shelter providing care and refuge for approximately 500 pets weekly (over 27,000 per year). Every day, Animal Services staff and volunteers work diligently to find life-long homes for these abandoned animals by facilitating onsite adoptions, hosting off-site adoption at events and locations throughout the community, and working collaboratively with over 70 rescue organizations who share in our goal of a No Kill Miami-Dade County.
Humane Society of Greater Miami
The Humane Society of Greater Miami is a limited admit, adoption guarantee facility dedicated to placing every dog and cat in our care into a loving home and to promoting responsible pet ownership and spay/neuter programs. Adoption guarantee simply means that every animal under our care is safe from the threat of euthanasia for as long as it takes to find them a forever family
The Cat Network
The Cat Network, Inc. is a 501(c)3, Florida not-for-profit corporation dedicated to humanely reducing cat overpopulation by educating the public about the need to sterilize their pets and strays; providing access to low-cost spay/neuter services for stray, homeless and abandoned cats; helping members in their efforts to place adoptable cats in loving homes; and advocating non-lethal population control and humane public policy.