Staff at the Santa Clara County Animal Shelter welcomed area residents into their San Martin facility and introduced them to their shelter dogs and cats in hopes of matching a family with a new pet during Saturday’s Clear the Shelters event.
Adoption fees were waived Aug. 19 as part of the nationwide Clear the Shelters initiative that seeks to find forever homes for shelter animals.
San Martin was a participating shelter and helped the nationwide tally of adoptions reach 73,482 on Saturday, according to cleartheshelters.com. The local shelter found new owners for 39 shelter animals (25 cats and 14 dogs).
“We had a great event,” interim shelter supervisor Kim Burgess said.
NBC and Telemundo teamed up with 900 shelters across the country to help promote the annual event.
In 2016, more than 50,000 pets found loving homes and families.
