(Greensburg, IN) – The Greensburg/Decatur County Animal Shelter (GDCAS) has been awarded a $2,000 grant from Best Friends Animal Society, a leading national animal welfare organization working to save cats and dogs in America’s shelters.
The grant recognizes GDCAS’s efforts to increase pet adoptions through successfully completing the Best Friends Bring Love Home Challenge — a nationwide initiative led by Best Friends to help more cats and dogs find homes.
The Bring Love Home Challenge ran throughout December.
Nearly 300 organizations were selected to participate, with 219 reporting their results, leading to 15,279 pets finding homes in December — including 40 cat and dogs adopted and 24 sent to Rescues in December.
For the first time, GDCAS cleared every single kennel and emptied the facility of dogs.
“We spent all of December celebrating the cats and dogs who got to be in a home for the holidays thanks to our participation in the Bring Love Home Challenge,” said Larami Vailes, GDCAS Adoption and Rescue Coordinator. “Being awarded this grant from Best Friends means we can keep that incredible momentum going. This challenge, and grant, along with new practices such
as online forms, and bilingual applications to help language barriers, will have lasting effects for the pets in our care, and for our community.”
Participants in the Bring Love Home Challenge piloted data-backed best practices to make pet adoption and fostering more accessible and welcoming to their community— which included reducing adoption fees, shortening applications, offering multilingual adoption and foster support, and more.
“More pets being adopted and fostered means more lives saved. We’re proud to recognize GDCAS for their commitment to lifesaving,” said Whitney Bollinger, Director of Strategy and Network Operations, Best Friends Animal Society. “Participating in the Bring Love Home Challenge got cats and dogs out of shelters and into homes in December, and we are excited to
see this lifesaving continue with even more pets in Decatur County the loving homes they deserve.“
