Miami-Dade County Animal Services has approximately 800 dogs and cats in its care and hopes to find permanent homes during a 12-hour adoption festival.
The annual Mega Match at Festival will be held all day Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at Miami’s Tropical Park.
Cats, kittens, and dogs over 4 months old are free of charge. Just pay for the $30 dog tag. Puppies are $85.
Cloylen Lorenzo and Chantel Rodriguez were the first to recruit Graham.
“Graham is beautiful. I’ve never had a dog like this, a terrier, but I don’t know. Her face spoke to me. A beautiful little face,” Lorenzo said.
After area residents showed up to adopt dogs earlier this week ahead of Hurricane Milton, many of those foster homes are now looking for permanent homes.
“Just as we change their lives, we change yours. So when you come to a shelter, you save lives. Be open-minded,” said Annette Jose, director of Miami-Dade County Animal Services. said.
The Cardona family adopted one of the rescue dogs, Sarah. She was the first foster adoptee of the day.
“The moment she came in like this, all the emotions hit me and I just started crying because it was just like, you know,” Mrs. Cardona said.
County officials announced last week that there were 160 dogs at the Medley shelter, which has no air conditioning or heating.
So if you get 160 hires, you don’t need to use it anymore.
“Not only does it put a strain on the pets living there, our community really feels the pain of those pets, and our staff also doesn’t want to see our dogs in the shelter. “Dogs don’t belong in shelters,” Jose said.
