Pet adoption day

Pet Adoption Day

Lautaro Luna, Micaela Burgos, Ivan Cabrera.

Rio Grande, Argentina

The authorities of Rio Grande announced an important event on Plaza Almirante Brown this Saturday called "Take your pet", where you can adopt stray dogs and take care of them.

The event is destinated for the whole family and will begin at 15 pm, in front of the city council.

The aim of this initiative is to adopt those homeless animals and raise awareness about the problem of stray dogs in the city since it is an issue that is growing up at a danger scale.

About that, the council Paulino Rossi, the organiser of the event said: "the initiative started  from a join work, that is being made with this organisations because we think it's a priority to face the problem of stray and abandoned dogs in the streets"

Daniel (23), an activist anti animal abuse gave us hard words: "I would rather prefer people get homeless instead of poor dogs, no one listens to them"

Irma (75) said: "I used to usually give those pretty dogs the leftovers of my food, you know, I feel pity for them because they can´t choose a family and now i am very comfortable knowing that they´ll have a home and a family for being loved"

The cold weather affects directly the whole population and makes them be worried about the animals.

Dogs that are homeless are now 15 out of 100, a number that is increasing and the most of the dogs are malnourished and without vaccines. That's why this event was made, to encourage adoption, where people can adopt dogs and get the vaccines free.

So, why wouldn't you take a poor homeless puppy and get them a new family?