This past weekend marked my 10th experience at a Best Friends Super Adoption. I have been attending since I moved to Los Angeles in 2005- sometimes as volunteer, sometimes as a vendor, and sometimes as an independent rescuer. As an indie rescuer I attended twice, although the first attendance doesn't entirely count because my rescue pup had such horrible leash aggression that we couldn't even walk into the event. We skirted along the outside for about 20 minutes before I simply gave up. BUT, I took that same dog 6 months later after a LOT of hard work, and she was a completely different dog. And then of course, I just adopted her. :)
That dog is Roo, and she is now my little mascot, working on her social skills by traveling around to all of the "hot" pet spots in LA so we can write about them and share with all of the other dog lovers in the city (and there are a lot of them!)
This Saturday, Roo, along with her older brother and father figure Duval, came along with me to host our Fetch vendor tent at the La Brea Tar Pits. I admit having both of them there while trying to carry on conversations with people was a little tough, but they both were fabulous and received a lot of compliments about how well behaved they were.
But down to business. What is this "Super Adoption" you speak of? At least twice/year, the Best Friends Animal Society Los Angeles Chapter hosts a fabulous event which gives an opportunity to hundreds of shelter dogs, cats, birds and bunnies, as well as those from dozens of rescue groups, to get out and meet potential adopters in a warm and friendly environment. And hundreds of them usually find homes at the event, and many of the others are rescued by the wonderful rescue groups who take them in, find fosters or boarding and network them until they find their forever homes. This year the amazing Jason Debus Heigl Foundation (founded by the adorable Katherine Heigl and her mother in memory of her brother Jason) donated $50 for cats and $100 for dogs to any non-profit rescue group who agreed to take them in. So many animals were saved as a result of the hard work of the rescue community that pulled together to create an amazing event.
Kudos to the Best Friends team for always pulling it off with very limited resources, and also to the FABULOUS volunteers who make it all happen.
If you'd like to get involved with the Best Friends efforts here in LA contact Contact: brandic@bestfriends.org.
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