SPCA Monterey County Sheltered 244 Pets Evacuated from Pajaro 124 Evacuated Pets Reunited with their Families

 

SPCA Monterey County cared for 244 pets evacuated from the Pajaro flood in March 2023, and they are still lovingly caring for over 120 evacuated pets. We also rescued dozens more from flooded areas and reunited them immediately with their loving families and we provided pet food and supplies to all local emergency shelters and to anyone evacuating with their pets. 

All disaster response services are free to the community, thanks to the support of donors. 

The evacuated pets include dogs, cats, chickens, parakeets, doves, parrots, canaries, cockatiels, pigeons, finches, a rabbit and an iguana. 

Since evacuation orders were lifted last week, the SPCA is reuniting pets with their loving families. 124 pets in our shelter have returned home, in addition to the dozens of pets we rescued and immediately reunited with their families. 

Thanks to the support from donors the SPCA is sending pet food home with every reunited pet and giving free pet food to everyone in need so residents of Pajaro don't need to add feeding their pets to their list of concerns during this time. 

How You Can Help:

    Prepare for a disaster: www.spcamc.org

    Donate to help pets: www.spcamc.org

    Purchase pet food for evacuated residents and others in need: www.spcamc.org/amazon, www.spcamc.org/chewy or your favorite local pet store. 

If you are ever 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. 

Thank you for your support that makes all our programs, including disaster response and preparedness, possible. We are here for you, because of you. 

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.  

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.