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45,000 Abandoned Animals Found Homes Last Weekend Thanks To #ClearTheShelters

Last weekend was special for a lot of homeless animals across the U.S. and Puerto Rico, because thanks to an initiative called “Clear the Shelters” organised by NBC and Telemundo, over 45,000 of them found new homes during the three-day event. Almost 20,000 animals were adopted on Saturday alone – that’s almost 14 pets every minute! The event was only scheduled to take place over a one-day period, but the response was so huge that people kept coming to adopt animals long after the official deadline had ended.

The event, held annually, was twice as successful this year as it was when it was held in 2015, and if this trend continues then the future for shelter animals looks very bright indeed.

More info: ClearTheShelters.com (h/t: The DoDo)

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Greta Jaruševičiūtė

Author, BoredPanda staff

Greta is a Photo Editor-in-Chief at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication.In 2016, she graduated from Digital Advertising courses where she had an opportunity to meet and learn from industry professionals. In the same year, she started working at Bored Panda as a photo editor.Greta is a coffeeholic and cannot survive a day without 5 cups of coffee... and her cute, big-eared dog.Her biggest open secret: she is a gamer with a giant gaming backlog.