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Events Draw Adopters, Create Public Awareness

Adoptable animals, volunteers, and Maddie greeted potential adopters at Mayor's Alliance/Maddie's Pet Adoption Festivals in NYC parks throughout the spring-into-summer months. This memorable moment was captured in Central Park on May 6.

Although unusually heavy rains might have deterred some potential adopters from venturing out to meet their new best friend at a Mayor's Alliance/Maddie's Pet Adoption Festival, those resolute folks who braved the raindrops and came out anyway found sunshine in the faces of those lucky Little New Yorkers who today share their lives with these determined adopters!

Of course, not all the adoption festivals were dampened by the weather. The Central Park event on May 6 attracted hundreds of animal-lovers, some of whom brought their own pets to be microchipped at the Mayor's Alliance microchipping clinic (a feature at every Mayor's Alliance/Maddie's Pet Adoption Festival). Subsequent events in Clove Lakes Park, Staten Island (May 21); Astoria Park, Queens (June 11), and Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx (June 25) brought out adopters and pets to be microchipped — and spread the adoption message far and wide throughout the Big Apple.

Families turned out to meet the adoptable animals in Astoria Park on June 11. (Photo by Rick Edwards)

Families turned out to meet the adoptable animals in Astoria Park on June 11.

(Photo by Rick Edwards)

Heavy rains leading up to June 3 forced the rescheduling of the ASPCA/Central Park Dog Walk to benefit Animal Care & Control of NYC and the Mayor's Alliance. The event took place on June 24, and despite showers that day, the walkers and their dogs who showed up for the walk had a good time and helped raise money for NYC's homeless animals. The Mayor's Alliance low-cost microchipping clinic, which was up and working both dates, managed to attract customers regardless of the weather.

If you missed out on attending an outdoor adoption event, don't fret — the season isn't over! You still can meet some of NYC's most adorable adoptable animals at BROADWAY BARKS!, hosted by Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore on Saturday, July 8, in Shubert Alley (see related article), and later, in the fall, the Mayor's Alliance/Maddie's Adoption Festival in Manhattan's Union Square Park on Sunday, October 22. And for cat-lovers, you won't want to miss the two-day CFA-Iams Cat Championship New York Adopt-A-Cat event inside Madison Square Garden on Saturday and Sunday, October 14 and 15.

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