SPCA Monterey County-Sheltering Pets from Winter Storm

A major winter storm is approaching. If you haven’t already, please prepare now for a disaster and for how to care for your family and pets should you need to evacuate or if you lose power for an extended period of time. If you are given orders to evacuate, please always take your pets with you. SPCA Monterey County will be here to shelter animals if you do not have other places to take your pets. And if you are in an evacuation warning area, please make plans for your animals now. It is much easier to move your animals during the calm daytime than in the dark during the height of the storm. As always, thank you for your support that makes all our programs, including disaster response and preparedness, possible. We are here for you, because of you. If you need assistance with sheltering, please call the SPCA at 831-373-2631 during the day or 831-264-5424 at night. If you are self-evacuating, please call us so we can direct you to safe sheltering. Prepare now to ensure a calm evacuation should you receive orders. We have tips available at spcamc.org. Find a place for your pets now, if possible, so that we can continue to help those who have no other options. How You Can Help: Please donate to help at www.spcamc.org/disaster-donate If You Are Given Evacuation Orders: Please take your animals with you. If you need assistance, please call us at 831-373-2631 during the day or 831-264-5424 at night. If you are self-evacuating, please call us so we can direct you to safe sheltering. Prepare now to ensure a calm evacuation should you receive orders. We have tips available at spcamc.org. Find a place for your pets now, if possible, so that we can continue to help those who have no other options. For more information, please visit spcamc.org SPCA Monterey County is not a chapter of any other agency and we don’t have a parent organization. Everything we do is made possible by the support of our compassionate donors. All of our disaster response services are offered at no charge to our community. During the 2020 wildfires, SPCA Monterey County rescued, sheltered, evacuated, and cared for over 1,400 animals. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) Monterey County is your nonprofit, independent, donor-supported humane society that has been serving the animals and people of Monterey County since 1905. The SPCA is not a chapter of any other agency and does not have a parent organization. They shelter homeless, neglected and abused pets and livestock, and provide humane education and countless other services to the community. They are the local agency you call to investigate animal cruelty, rescue and rehabilitate injured wildlife, and aid domestic animals in distress. Online: www.SPCAmc.org. Facebook: /SPCAmc Instagram: @SPCAmc Twitter: @SPCAmc

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