The Everett Animal Shelter may soon take its show on the road.
City officials are planning to inaugurate a mobile pet adoption van in 2005.
“Rather than waiting for people to go to the shelters, we’ll come to them,” city animal control director Bud Wessman said.
The plan is to take the van every Sunday to parks, special events and other public places. Those adopting pets would then go to the shelter to pay the adoption fees.
More adoptions would lead to more revenue for the animal shelter and less of a need to euthanize animals, Wessman said.
Seattle has had a mobile van for seven years, said Don Jordan, executive director of the Seattle Animal Shelter. The van visits Green Lake every Sunday morning and periodically goes to other parks and neighborhood service centers as well.
“What we found is a lot of people find it hard to come to shelters” because of the emotional impact on seeing so many animals in cages, Jordan said. “We wanted to make the adoption process easier.”
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