The ASPCA and Best Friends Animal Society are working together on an effort to help save the lives of more shelter animals in the city of Los Angeles through the holiday season. The two organizations plan to subsidize the 'shelter fees' for organizations that take animals from LA city shelters, allowing them to fast track more animals toward adoption.
This collaboration will greatly assist local rescue groups - who frequently pull animals from Los Angeles city shelters - by subsidizing the rescue groups' associated costs. These shelter fees include vaccinations, micro-chipping and spay/neuter for unaltered shelter pets.
In turn, these rescue groups will be able to pull more animals from the public shelters and instead use their budget dollars to provide for the animals in their care. The ASPCA is contributing $70,000 and Best Friends Animal Society is contributing $50,000 for a combined total of $120,000 through the end of 2013 to offset the costs to these groups, many of which operate with very limited budgets.
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