Great Plains SPCA Pleas for Help from the Community

Great Plains SPCA is desperate for additional support from the community as it sees less adoptions, more animals coming through its doors and the stress of animals staying in a shelter long-term settling in.

2022 has been a year like no other in animal welfare. Without the surge of people working from home and wanting to adopt and foster, shelters like Great Plains SPCA are seeing and increasing number of pets living in the shelter for extended periods of time and the negative effects that has on the animals’ mental health. Currently, the shelter has 15 dogs and eight cats who have been in the shelter system for over 100 days.

There shelter is putting out a plea for community members to step up to help these pets in desperate need. They need more volunteers willing to take pets on field trips to give them a short break from the shelter and more fosters to help pets on a longer-term basis. Most of all, the shelter needs more people to adopt in order to return capacity and animal stress to a more manageable level.

Great Plains SPCA’s CEO, Tam Singer, will be hosting an open call via Zoom this Thursday at 5:00PM for those interested in learning how they can support the shelter during this time of need.

Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 833 1818 9459Passcode: 390441

About Great Plains SPCA

Great Plains SPCA is a no-kill animal shelter in Merriam, Kansas serving 4,000 community pets annually. We work to save, protect and improve the lives of animals, while strengthening the relationship between pets and their human companions by providing humane sheltering, adoptions, community outreach and behavior and training. Great Plains SPCA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. For more information, please visit greatplainsspca.org.