Free adoptions through August in Clear the Shelter annual event

By Sahar Chmais

Animal lovers could possibly find some joy in COVID-19; what once was a day of free animal adoptions at the San Marcos Regional Animal Shelter, has turned into a month.

“We’re having to readjust how we do the event,” said Jeanne Saadi, animal services manager at the San Marcos shelter. “We’re doing adoptions by appointment only because we couldn’t encourage a lot of people to come on the same day and we didn’t want to just pass over the event this year. So we figured, if we spread adoptions over a month, we could still keep that momentum going.”