A new project in the US aims to reduce the number of pets that need to be put down in animal shelters.
In New Hampshire, the local SPCA had more families wishing to adopt pets then they had pets available for adoption.
Halfway across the country in Indiana, an overcrowded animal shelter was unable to place animals with families in time to save them.
Thanks to the efforts of Jen Corbin, manager of the New Hampshire adoption center, nearly 200 dogs have been relocated from overcrowded Indiana shelter to be placed with families in New Hampshire.
Corbin said that families were coming into the local adoption center and not able to find a suitable pet. This encouraged people to visit pet stores, which promotes puppy mills. Corbin acknowledges that it may cost more to transport animals from Indiana than animals already in New Hampshire, but sees this as an effective way to manage the problem of pet overpopulation.
A grant is funding the costs of spaying and neutering the dogs in Indiana and the cost of transporting them to New Hampshire is funded by the N.H. SPCA.
Once the dogs arrive in New Hampshire, they are given a complete check-up and quarantined for one week before they are introduced to the local population of animals that are up for adoption.
With this new transport program, Corbin hopes that there will be a surge of new adoptions as more families are drawn to the center thanks to their larger selection of deserving pets.
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