Our annual statewide Shelter Open House event is focused on connecting community members with their local animal shelter. Animal shelters are a great resource for our animals and they are made stronger with the support of their community through adoptions, donations, and volunteerism.
 
Connect with your local animal shelter and see how you can support their great work!

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Our 9th Annual Shelter Open House, held December 2020, was a success!

Thanks to the financial support of compassionate people like you, we were able to expand our 2020 Shelter Open House event from a weekend long event to the full month of December! This one of a kind event is held statewide to raise awareness of our adoption partners' good work to serve pets in their communities and help hundreds of homeless pets find a loving home in time for the holidays. Past events have helped hundreds of pets get adopted.

Our 2020 Shelter Open House event highlighted the important work of 18 adoption agencies, from around Washington State, and showcased the homeless pets in their care! If you missed our 2020 Shelter Open House event, no worries, it's never too late to adopt! Due to covid, adoption agencies have gone to adoption by appointment models, so please check their website for current adoption policies.

Special thanks to the following partners who provided pet supplies so every adopted pet went home with lots of new goodies: Nylabone, Wacky Walk’r Wonderball, Fluff and Tuff, Kong, Naturally Fresh Cat Litter, Natural Balance Pet Food, Taste of the Wild Dog Food, and Gentle Giants Dog Food! ​

And, a huge round of a-paws to our 2020 Shelter Open House adoption agency partners:
Adams County Pet Rescue
Auburn Valley Humane Society
Homeward Pet Adoption Center
Humane Society of Cowlitz County
Humane Society of Kitsap County
Jefferson County Humane Society
Meow Cat Rescue
Motley Zoo Animal Rescue
Purrfect Pals
Seattle Area Feline Rescue
Seattle Dogs Homeless Program
Seattle Humane Society
Skagit Valley Humane Society
Spokanimal 
Washington Alaskan Malamute Adoption League
Wenatchee Valley Humane Society 
Wigglin Home Boxer Rescue
Yakima Humane Society

Watch our PSA featuring Scott Servais, Seattle Mariners' Manager! 

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 8th Annual Shelter Open House

Saturday, October 5th, 2019

Animal shelters across Washington helped you find your new best, furry friend! 

With all participating shelters reporting, we had 416 adoptions! 

On Saturday, October 5th, Pawsitive Alliance hosted the Shelter Open House taking place in animal shelters across Washington!

We hope that you were able to join the party and take a trip to your community animal shelter during the Shelter Open House. Many fun activities were planned at each shelter from adoption specials, to raffles, giveaways, and themed parties. We hope you had some fun and got to see the great work your community's animal shelter is doing for pets in need.

And, of course, we hope you visited the cats and dogs, took some pictures, shared the event with your friends, and helped homeless pets get adopted. Maybe you even found your new best friend.

The goal of the statewide Shelter Open House is to raise awareness of animal shelters across Washington and the homeless animals in their care, and to help those pets find forever homes. Below is a list of shelters that participated along with pictures from many of them! 

Congratulations to Humane Society of Skagit Valley for winning the award for most adoptions during Shelter Open House! 

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 List of Participating Shelters:

Auburn Valley Humane Society   10am-6pm ​

PAWS 11am-5pm and Paws Cat City in Seattle

Regional Animal Society of King County 12pm-5pm Special Event: 50% off all adoptions!  Also participating is their Eastside Adoption Center in the Kirkland, Petco

Seattle Area Feline Rescue 1pm-7pm Special Event: Pumpkin Spice Claw-tté

Sunny Sky's- 12pm-3pm

Seattle Humane 11am-8pm Special Event: Football. Volunteer Austin Davenport made a video about his time there! 

Northwest Organization for Animal Help 11am-5pm Special Event: Adopt don't Shop!

​Camano Animal Shelter Association 11am-4pm Special Event: 1/2 off all adoptions

Meow Cat Rescue 12pm-5pm  ​

Homeward Pet Adoption Center 12pm-6pm Special Event: 12th man ​
Adoptions through the end of October are automatically entered to win this lovely 12th Man Basket! 

Humane Society of Skagit Valley  11am-4pm Special Event: Fall into senior pet love, adoption fees waived on Senior pets 7 years+!
SpokAnimal 10am-5pm Special Event: Hawaiian Theme 
Spokane Humane 11am-5pm Special Event: Pet-Toberfest
​SCRAPS 11am-5:30PM 
Grant County Animal Outreach 12pm-6pm Special Event: In with the New!
Wenatchee Valley Humane Society 11am-3pm 
Adams County Pet Rescue 12pm-5pm
Benton Franklin Humane Society 11am-7pm Special Event: Adopt one animal get 1/2 off the adoption fee of another

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