Animal Shelter Adoption Partners

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Animal Shelter Adoption Partners, Inc.

What can you do?

1.Adopt  - There are always lots of great animals available at your local animal shelter.  If you buy a pet from the pet store, you support additional breeding in a time of enormous overpopulation.

2.Spay or Neuter � Unless you are a licensed professional breeder, there is no reason to allow your pet to breed.  The overpopulation problem cannot be solved without aggressive Spay/Neuter programs.

3.Prevent Strays � Every stray picked up is one less space at the shelter.  Keep your pet securely confined, and be sure they have a collar with your current phone number on it.

4.Foster � Offer to care for a dog or cat for a few days or weeks until space is again available or another shelter can take them.

5.Donate � We have many plans, but volunteerism only goes so far.  We need funds continue to make a difference.  We want to expand our programs until this problem is permanently eliminated.  We can help with your help.

We appreciate whatever you can do

 

What We Do

Animal Shelter Adoption Partners takes concrete steps to reduce the unnecessary euthanasia of adoptable animals at local animal shelters.

There were hundreds of animals destroyed every year in San Luis Obispo County who could have been saved if they had found homes.

We started as volunteers at the San Luis Obispo County Animal Shelter, and soon found that animals were destroyed solely because the shelter had insufficient space to house them.

We quickly recognized the simple truth that we could only reduce the number of euthanized animals by increasing adoptions and redemptions of stray animals, or reducing the number of animals coming into the shelter.

Starting where we thought we could have the greatest impact in the shortest time, we sought to increase adoptions of the many perfectly delightful dogs and cats at the shelter.

Our initial role was to encourage those who came to the shelter to adopt one of the animals they saw.  Unfortunately, there were more dogs and cats than potential adopters.  It was clear that more adopters had to be found.

Some of our programs are described here.  We will continue to develop new programs wherever we see a need.

Rescue Me!

Rescue Me! is a weekly TV program that has shown every shelter animal since 2001!  This show is the most played show on Charter Cable Public Access TV Channel 2.

Many people come to the shelter just because of Rescue Me!  The positive image of the shelter and its animals encourages new visitors. Rescue Me! increases adoptions and redemptions. 

Foster Support

Sometimes the shelter gets an influx of animals that a few short-term foster homes can remedy, saving animals lives.

ASAP provide financial support and equipment to foster homes that can be called on to temporarily relieve the pressure on the shelter, as well as placing dogs and cats in foster homes while they receive medical treatment or improve their behavior to make them adoptable.

Assessment and  Training

ASAP funds a behavior assessment program to find training solutions for dogs that are unadoptable because of their behavior.  We implement training plans while the animal is still at the shelter, and provide free training for life for selected animals at a local animal training facility.   Without this help, many dogs would be labeled �unadoptable�.


No Place Like Home

To address the problem of too many animals being surrendered to the shelter by their owners, we developed the No Place Like Home Program, now operating as part of Volunteers for Animals, another San Luis Obispo County Animal Welfare non-profit organization.     

NPLH provides alternatives to owners.  If they have an animal with behavioral problems, NPLH�s Stay-at Home program will help them find ways to resolve those problems so they can keep their pet.

If they simply cannot keep their pet, NPLH provides Re-home services to assist owners to find a new home for Snoopy or Garfield.

Adoption Fee Rebates

Some of our wonderful pets need a little help getting into their new homes.  ASAP provides rebates for pets that are not quickly adopted, and have the added problem of still needing to be spayed or neutered at the new owners expense. 

This program will help those hard-to-adopt pets that would have never made it out of the shelter just a few years ago. We also assure that every senior dog and cat gets their adoption fee paid to help the older animals that are routinely euthanized at most shelters.