If you live in Wake County, you’ll want to know about our next organization! The Wake County Animal Center has been joining us for Spring Fling for years now and we are happy to have them join us again! As regulars to the event, they had this to say about it:
"Spring Fling is the biggest animal event of the year - filled with fantastic vendors, animal welfare organizations, food trucks, and more! It's a great way for shelters and rescues to market for adopters, volunteers, or foster homes while also promoting adoptable animals and other programs. Personally, I love shopping at all the local vendors that support the local animal community."
Wake County Animal Center is our open admission (the only one in Wake County), county shelter that receives all the stray and abandoned pets in Wake County. They also take owner surrendered pets and as an open admission shelter, they have to take any animal that comes through the doors. This means that sometimes they end up with animals other than dogs and cats, like chickens, rabbits, guinea pigs, and even birds or reptiles on occasion! They work with fosters, volunteers and rescues to re-home thousands of pets each year. They also have an adoption center, which welcomes visitors to come and look at the pets on their adoption floor (during adoption floor hours.)
Open admission shelters, like Wake County, need so much community support. When they have to take in every animal that comes in, there’s always a risk that tough decisions have to be made because of space limitations. This is where the community can make a huge impact! Rescues can pull animals into their programs, individuals can foster for the shelter or for a partner rescue group, share adoptable animals to help them find homes, donate supplies to help care for the pets there and make their stay more comfortable, or volunteer their time to help pets in the shelter destress and get some extra attention.
You can follow them and keep up with their adoptable pets on their website, and on Facebook and Instagram!
Don't miss visiting the Wake County Animal Center team at Unleashed's 12th Annual Spring Fling Dog & Cat Fundraiser on Sunday, April 13, 2025, from 12-6 pm at Koka Booth Amphitheatre!!
Stay up to date on all things Spring Fling 2025:
2025 FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/share/1TntG29de2/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/k9springfling
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