ASPCA Mega Match-a-thon Weekend

ASPCA and its local partner, Bark Avenue Foundation, announce the unprecedented participation of 16 SoCal shelters in ASPCA’s nationwide Mega Match-a-thon, March 30-April 1, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.

Working together, the shelters will try to double the number of adoptions they made during the same weekend in 2011.

 “With the help of ASPCA and our 16 shelter partners, the Mega Match-a-thon will be the biggest-ever adoption event in Southern California, with more than 5,000 beautiful, deserving dogs, cats, puppies, kittens, and bunnies hoping to find new homes,” says Melanie Pozez, Founder and Executive Director of Bark Avenue Foundation.

At the , there will be discounts on adoption fees, free collars, leashes and ID tags. All animals are fixed, vaccinated and micro-chipped.

California spends approximately $300 million a year housing and killing unwanted companion animals. Bark Avenue Foundation and ASPCA are committed to helping dramatically lower that number. Since its inception in 2004, Bark Avenue Foundation has played a prominent role in reducing the abandoned-animal population in Southern California through innovative adoption, spay/neuter, and humane-education programs.

For more information, go to BarkAvenueFoundation.org.