The little town of Truckee, California, may look like a throwback to the Old West, but when it comes to animals, Truckee is ahead of the pack. There s no shelter, so volunteers provide foster care to animals or board them at local vet clinics until they re adopted. Local businesses host biweekly adoption days.
People seem grateful and think it s a nice thing to do.
And if I can do some good, I want to do it. The Arkansas shelter, which normally handles about 30 to 40 dogs and cats per week, ran out of cats and dogs before the offer ended. We found homes for every one of them for the first time ever, said shelter director Billy Grace. The town charges higher license fees for dogs not sterilized, so the offer was a real incentive. Last year, the shelter had more dogs adopted than destroyed a first for the city.