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Summer Adoption Events Keep the Heat on Pet Adoptions Around NYC

Adoption events are a big deal — especially to the animals awaiting their new homes!

New Yorkers love their weekends, and plenty of them took to the parks and other venues in August to meet their newest family members at adoption events around the city.

On a sunny July 30, Shubert Alley was the setting for BROADWAY BARKS 7!, the annual star-studded pet adoption and fundraising celebration hosted by Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore. More than 20 shelters and rescue groups, many of them Alliance Participating Organizations, introduced their Little New Yorkers to an adoring public, resulting in plenty of adoptions. The event also raised money for its participating groups, and for the Picasso Veterinary Fund of the Mayor's Alliance.

As August rolled in, two Mayor's Alliance/Maddie's Pet Adoption Festivals drew hundreds of attendees, many looking to adopt a Little New Yorker. Animal Haven hosted the festivities in Cunningham Park in Queens on August 14, and BARC Shelter hosted the heavily attended festival in Brooklyn's Prospect Park the following Sunday. Adoptions were brisk, and the Mayor's Alliance microchipping clinics drew new adopters as well as pets and their people from the community to have their companion animals "chipped." Despite the heat, animals and people alike appeared to enjoy their afternoons in the park, relaxing to the rhythms of a Dixieland band.

Maddie accepts her Companion Animal Guardian Award, presented by Valerie Sicignano, at the Natural Pet Fair/BARC Cat Awareness Day.

Maddie, the lovable Schnauzer mascot from Maddie's Fund, greeted and delighted New Yorkers at the Natural Pet Fair/BARC Cat Awareness Day event at BARC Shelter on Sunday, August 14. At the event, Maddie accepted, on behalf of Maddie's Fund, a Companion Animal Guardian Award presented by the Natural Pet Fair and In Defense of Animals. Among the other honorees were BARC Shelter and Elinor Molbegott of the Humane Society of New York (both Alliance Participating Organizations), and Janell Granier of the Mayor's Alliance. Cats from the ASPCA and BARC found new homes, and event-goers enjoyed a variety of fun and games and information tables.

As we move into the autumn season, more adoption events are coming up — including Mayor's Alliance/Maddie's Pet Adoption Festivals in Central Park and Staten Island's Clove Lakes Park in October. Click here for a complete rundown and details of all the upcoming adoption events.

About Maddie's Fund

Maddie's Fund, The Pet Rescue Foundation (www.maddiesfund.org), is a family foundation funded by PeopleSoft Founder Dave Duffield, and his wife, Cheryl, to help create a no-kill nation. The first step is to help develop programs that guarantee loving homes for all healthy shelter dogs and cats throughout the country. The next step will be to save the sick and injured pets in animal shelters nationwide. Maddie's Fund is named after the family's beloved Miniature Schnauzer who passed away in 1997.