All pets adopted at Minneapolis Animal Care & Control’s free adoption event

MINNEAPOLIS — Dozens bought to go household with a totally free pet dog or cat from Minneapolis Animal Treatment and Regulate Friday.

“It is a tremendous exciting working day. I am hoping he is the a single,” Cassie Jensen reported.

The Jensens have their eye on a new sidekick.

“I observed Astro the pet dog online and assumed he may well be the excellent addition to our relatives,” Jensen said. “It can be a tremendous sweet minor boxer mix. We’re hoping to shock her brother.”

And they’re not by yourself.

“We have 21 canine and 21 cats,” stated Madison Weissenborn, an personnel at Minnesota Animal Care & Control. “Of all the animals these days, puppies, kittens, canines, cats will be no cost of demand.”

A nice perk for families acquiring the correct pet at the suitable rate – but also a big enable to workers.

“I think like most shelters and rescues in the location, we have been struggling. We have been looking at a decrease in adoptions,” Weissenborn said. “We’re in excess of our previous year’s figures already and we’re only 6 months into the year.”

Households are screened to make sure pups like Riff are going to a very good dwelling.

“Our employees and volunteers do the job tricky to play matchmaker and variety of discover the correct match for the correct household,” Weissenborn claimed. 

Soon after a very little wait, and a tiny paperwork, the Jensen family members grew by a single.

“We previously like him. He seems like he is likely to be the perfect match for our spouse and children,” Jensen explained.

The approach was for this occasion to go by way of the weekend, but it was so prosperous all the pets were being adopted these days. 

Minneapolis Animal Care and Control is nevertheless hunting for foster people and volunteers for its new foster system.