The Shelter focuses on spay / neuter programs to control overpopulation,
creative adoption efforts to bring pets to loving families and providing support for marginalized animals.
Some of these include Furburbia pet
adoption centers in malls (taking pets out of the shelter to the public); pet super
adoptions (adopting hundreds of animals at a time over a weekend), the first coalition - based
effort to end the killing; the Big Fix statewide mobile clinic, serving every nook and cranny of the state and cranking out more surgeries than any other mobile clinic of its kind (around 100,000 surgeries during its time);
creative corporate partnerships, including Squatters Chasing Tail Ale and Hooters for Neuter; the first statewide community cat trap / neuter / return (TNR) programs; and the first dedicated shelter program to save pit bull terriers (the Pit Crew).
In the past decade, shelters have gotten
creative in their
efforts to increase
adoptions and reduce unwanted pet populations, according to The Humane Society of the United States.