<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><div>The second annual Clear the Shelters campaign, with over 40 local NBC and Telemundo TV stations teamed up with more than 680 animal shelters has been a rousing success. So far 47,127 animals now have a new home in which to celebrate Caturday.</div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of NBC News Philadelphia at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/Animal-Lovers-Across-the-Country-Prepare-to-Clear-the-Shelters-387877752.html?ICID=ref_fark&ICID=ref_fark&ICID=ref_fark&ICID=ref_fark&ICID=ref_fark&utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark">http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/Animal-Lovers-Across-the-Country-Prepare-to-Clear-the-Shelters-387877752.html?ICID=ref_fark&ICID=ref_fark&ICID=ref_fark&ICID=ref_fark&ICID=ref_fark&utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><h1 class="headline" itemprop="headline" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.67em; padding: 0px 16px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 2.188em; font-weight: 300; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; width: 982.078125px; height: auto; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">More Than 45,000 Pets Find Homes Through Clear the Shelters</h1><h2 class="subtitle" style="margin: 10px 16px 10px 2px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 1.125em; font-weight: 300; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(119, 119, 119); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">NBC Owned Television Stations and Telemundo pair up with more than 680 shelters across the country</h2><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tilda the pug terrier mix, Charizard the iguana, Rose the Huskie and more than 20,000 other animals found new homes on Saturday as NBC’s pet adoption drive emptied shelters across the country.</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">More than 45,000 pets in all were adopted this month as part of the second annual Clear the Shelters campaign, after more than 40 local NBC and Telemundo television stations teamed up with more than 680 animal shelters in states across the country and in Puerto Rico. The shelters offered no-cost or reduced-fee adoptions, or they waived spaying and neutering fees to help families bring home dogs, cats and unusual animals like the iguana. </span></p><div class="embedded article" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><a href="http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/ClearTheShelters-Memorable-Pet-Adoption-Moments-388027712.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Memorable Moments From #ClearTheShelters</a></span></font></h3></li></ul></div><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pet owners who mentioned the campaign during the adoption process were included in NBC's 2016 count, which was more than twice the number of animals given forever homes during last year's event. </span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Our entire division of NECN, Telemundo and NBC stations and our corporate staff are overwhelmed and thrilled with the extraordinary results of this year's Clear The Shelters event,” said Valari Staab, the president of NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations. "We want to thank all of our shelters, NBC and Telemundo affiliates that joined us this year and our partners, including Petco and VIP Petcare. Together, we emptied at least 13 shelters and found more than 45,000 animals new loving homes."</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="4" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="5" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The BARCS animal shelter in Baltimore was emptied of dogs in just six hours on Saturday, one of numerous shelters cleared as pet lovers came forward to take in homeless animals.</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="6" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Empty cages!" the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter wrote on Facebook in a post that showed shelter workers waving goodbye from the cages. "All of these doggies found homes today during Clear the Shelters."</span></p><div class="embedded article" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><a href="http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/Clear-the-Shelters-Charizard-Iguana-Other-Unusual-Pets-388032262.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Charizard the Iguana and Other Unusual Pets Find Homes</a></span></font></h3></li></ul></div><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thirty-seven dogs went to new homes and another 35 adoptions are pending, the applications competed but the animals still needing to be spayed or neutered.</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Eleven other shelters in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas were also cleared, with 2,894 animals adopted on Saturday.</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="9" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Within minutes of opening its doors Saturday morning, the Stonington Animal Rescue Project in Stonington, Connecticut, had found homes for all of its kittens.</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="10" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kittens are always popular but shelter officials were unprepared for the speed at which these 13 were adopted at the beginning of NBC's second annual Clear the Shelters drive.</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="8" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><div class="embedded article" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/What-if-Its-Not-Working-Out-With-Your-Shelter-Pet-387926922.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" size="3">What If It's Not Working Out With Your Shelter Pet?</font></a></h3></li></ul></div><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="11" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We were totally cleared by 10:10," said Brooke Russell, who is charge of social media for the shelter.</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Still to find homes at the Stonington shelter: two guinea pigs, some roosters, barn cats and a few older cats, Russell said.</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="13" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We're an all-species rescue group," she said. "We rescue any animal in need of help."</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="14" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In New York, a Huskie named Rose reached the end of a long journey that began a month and a half ago in Turkey. </span></p><div class="embedded article" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><a href="http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/Clear-the-Shelters-Should-You-Adopt-Dog-Flowchart-387649201.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Should You Adopt a Dog? This Flowchart Will Help You Decide</a></span></font></h3></li></ul></div><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="15" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rescued by a woman in Turkey, Rose and another dog, a Doberman, were flown to the Westchester County chapter of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Briarcliff Manor.</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="16" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Doberman was adopted quickly but Rose is a bit unsteady on her feet, a result of a neurological syndrome that made her more difficult to place until Saturday, when a man who seemed a perfect fit came in and took her home to Connecticut.</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="17" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She’s going to fine for her life but it's just something to look out for and keep on top of," said the shelter’s executive director, Shannon Laukhuf. "When you see her walk, she's usually fine but every ten steps she might sway a little bit."</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="18" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"She doesn’t let it stop her," Laukhuf added. "She's just the most playful dog. She loves other animals, she's great with kids."</span></p><div class="embedded article" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><a href="http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/multimedia/Clear-the-Shelters-What-Kind-of-Dog-Adopt-386334931.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">What Kind of Dog Should You Adopt?</a></span></font></h3></li></ul></div><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="19" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/Cats-and-Dogs-Find-New-Homes-as-Clear-the-Shelters-Begins-321955442.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Nearly 20,000 animals found new homes</a> last August during Clear the Shelters, among them Roxie. An older pit bull, she was left in a backyard in Stockton, California, when the woman who owned her went to prison. She had been well cared but ended up at the city shelter, shivering, anxious and unable to walk.</span></font></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="20" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Another dog thought to be her daughter was adopted but she languished until she was moved to the Muttville Senior Dog Rescue in San Francisco in time for NBC's nationwide pet adoption drive last year. And there she met Terry and Doug Burke.</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="22" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Roxie is thriving," Doug Burke said. "She's loving her life."</span></p><div class="embedded article" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul class="Infographic" style="margin: 11px 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Infographic" style="margin: 11px 5px 0px 0px; padding: 2px 4px; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-style: solid solid none; border-top-color: rgb(18, 89, 166); border-right-color: rgb(18, 89, 166); border-left-color: rgb(18, 89, 166); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; width: auto; height: 9px; position: relative; display: block; background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgb(100, 140, 185) 0%, rgb(48, 92, 142) 100%);"><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">INFOGRAPHIC</span></font></span><a href="http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/Clear-the-Shelters-Pros-and-Cons-of-Pet-Ownership-387654731.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000" size="3">Pet Owners Weigh the Pros and Cons of Their Furry Friends</font></a></h3></li></ul></div><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="23" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At the Muttville Senior Dog Rescue on Saturday, Jennifer Gonzalez of Santa Cruz wanted a calm and mellow lap dog and she got just that, in Santana, an 11-year-old Yorkie mix. </span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="24" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Beth Martin, who has already adopted three dogs and fostered 22 others, fell in love with Peggy Sue, a terrier mix stray from Sacramento with a broken leg. The two went home to Silicon Valley.</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="25" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ruben Echeverria Hernandez wanted another dog who needed attention and Ringo Starr fit the bill. He joins a home with two other dogs. Hernandez was diagnosed with AIDS and said the dogs keep him happy and busy.</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="26" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And Sue and Sasha Smirensky brought home Tilda, a pug terrier mix, to join them and Pickle for their walks on Half Moon Bay every morning.</span></p><div class="embedded article" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><a href="http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/Clear-the-Shelters-Preparing-Home-Family-for-Pet-387648201.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">How to Prep Your Home, Family for a New Pet</a></span></font></h3></li></ul></div><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="27" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Natalie Morales, NBC News' West Coast anchor for the "Today" show, will host a 30-minute special on Friday, July 29 to recap the day. It will air on the NBC Owned Television Stations and on more than 120 NBC affiliated stations.</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="28" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A similar show airing on the Telemundo stations will be co-hosted by Stephanie Himonidis, known as "Chiquibaby," and Elva Saray, hosts of the daily entertainment show "Acceso Total" on Telemundo 52 Los Angeles or KVEA.</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></span></span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="29" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Muttville shelter had about 80 dogs available for adoption Saturday — of all types and sizes, from 3 to 110 pounds. They were strays or lost their homes when their owners moved, went into nursing homes, died or in some other way were no longer able to care for them. The one thing the mutts have in common is that they are all at least 7 years old.</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="30" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"What you see is what you get," said Sherri Franklin, founder and executive director of the Muttville shelter. "<a href="http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/Benefits-of-Adopting-Senior-Pets-386522941.html" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Their personalities are already formed</a>. A lot of our dogs have grown up in families so we sometimes are able to give that kind of background on the dog. They're trained, they're not going to chew up your shoes."</span></p><div class="embedded article" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><a href="http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/Clear-the-Shelters-Reasons-to-Adopt-Shelter-Pet-386982871.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Why You Should Adopt a Shelter Animal</a></span></font></h3></li></ul></div><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="31" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Last year's mood was festive, drawing in people who might have been putting off getting a dog, she said. At the end of the day, 19 dogs had new homes. </span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="32" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Muttville is on what's known as "Rescue Row," which it shares with the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the San Francisco Animal Care and Control shelter and the Northern California Family Dog Rescue.</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="33" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"If you're looking to adopt, you can find anything on Rescue Row," said Patty Stanton, who handles the shelter's public relations.</span></p><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="34" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Roxie is the second dog the Burkes have adopted from Muttville — and their fourth rescue dog in all — and she has been playing with Doug Burke from the first day in their home.</span></p><div class="embedded article" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 19px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: disc;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="3"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><a href="http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Clear-the-Shelters-PTSD-and-Rescue-Dogs-387696911.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">Clear the Shelters: PTSD and Rescue Dogs</a></span></font></h3></li></ul></div><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="35" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"And she hasn’t stopped since," Terry Burke wrote in describing the adoption. "Except to eat and sleep, both of which she also enjoys tremendously. Along with giving little tiny kisses, which my friend told me from pit bulls are called 'pibbles.'"</span></p><div class="dateline bottom" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Published at 11:16 PM EDT on Jul 23, 2016</span></div><div class="articleAutoFooter" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i></i></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">More than 46,000 pets were adopted July 23 during Clear the Shelters, a nationwide push to place deserving animals in forever homes. Join the conversation on social media using #ClearTheShelters.</i></p></div><p class="paragraph" data-pnum="12" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></div><div>--------------------</div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Empty cages! *Happy, happy tears.* All of these doggies found homes today during Clear the Shelters! We did 37 adoptions, and another 35 adoption pendings (applications complete, but pets still need spay/neuter surgery and/or are on stray hold) in just 6 hours. What an incredible day! Thank you to all of our adopters, volunteers and staff. A truly lifesaving day for 72 pets!</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_073016_01.jpg">http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_073016_01.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_073016_02.jpg">http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_073016_02.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_073016_03.jpg">http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_073016_03.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_073016_04.jpg">http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_073016_04.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_073016_05.jpg">http://www.moscowcares.com/Caturday/Caturday_073016_05.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>