Sacramento SPCA: Why the Answer is Always “Yes”
Over the last several years, the needs of the Sacramento community evolved in both expected and unexpected ways. Dawn Foster, Director of Marketing & Communications at the Sacramento Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), witnessed this ongoing evolution firsthand.
“We have seen the needs of our communities change, but meeting special needs is what we do,” Dawn said. “Whether it’s a regional disaster or an animal that needs specialized medical care, we say ‘yes’ to the animals and the people who need us most in the Sacramento community and beyond. It’s what we are most known for and most proud of.”
Saying “yes” can be challenging, especially when presented with crises and a rapid increase of needs – for people and animals. Since 1892, the Sacramento SPCA has provided homeless animals with comfort, shelter, love, and new homes. For almost 130 years, the organization has committed to serving the Sacramento region with low-cost, compassionate medical care and other services for animals. Dawn emphasized their goal of keeping people and pets together for life, even through times of crisis. These crises have been constant over the last few years, but the Sacramento SPCA never stopped saying “yes.”
Dawn said, “With the growing number of natural disasters in our region and beyond, we realized several fire seasons ago that the Sacramento SPCA is uniquely positioned in the Power Inn area to help support the needs of animals, people, and other shelters in crisis.”
When the fires began in 2021, the Sacramento SPCA helped their shelter partners in Plumas and El Dorado Counties by transferring in their adoptable animals in order to give them the capacity to take in displaced animals. Additionally, a team of Sacramento SPCA staff and volunteers went to the El Dorado County animal shelter in Diamond Springs to assist and provide relief under the physically and emotionally taxing circumstances.
“Even without ongoing natural disasters, many of the shelters in our area and across Northern California are overcrowded and lack medical staff,” Dawn explained. “That’s why we continue to say ‘yes’ to taking and transferring in animals requiring specialized medical care.”
With their positioning along the Power Inn Corridor, the Sacramento SPCA is mirroring the growth of the area and the surrounding businesses. In early 2021, the organization completed the construction of the Zoe K. McCrea Animal Health Center, a 10,000 square foot state-of-the-art animal hospital. Located on their shelter campus on Florin Perkins Road, this new facility increased the region’s access to medical care for their animals and positioned the Sacramento SPCA to meet the future needs of the community.
“We’ve taken a leading role in supporting the needs of animals and people who need us most in our community and beyond,” Dawn said. “And we’ll be looking for new ways to provide more support to those in crisis.
Here’s where you can find and support the Sacramento SPCA:
6201 Florin Perkins Road
Sacramento, CA 95828
(916) 383-7387
Website: www.sspca.org/
Facebook: @SacSPCA
Instagram: @sacramento_spca
Twitter: @SacramentoSPCA
LinkedIn: Sacramento SPCA
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