Even after the orange-and-white truck pulls into the garage at Dumb Friends League and cuts the engine, the noise doesn’t stop. Instead, the thrum of the vehicle is replaced by a choir of meows, purrs and chirrs coming from the cargo.
The ASPCA delivered 19 cats and kittens to DFL’s Quebec Street shelter March 7. That morning the national animal welfare organization’s 30-foot Rescue Ride truck left Hobbs, a city on the New Mexico-Texas border, and drove all day to Denver. Backs in Hobbs the cats’ chances of adoption were low, but in Denver that outlook soars.
The cats from Hobbs joined 40 other felines Dumb Friends League has accepted from the ASPCA this year. Rescue Ride has transported 258 animals across Colorado’s shelters since Jan. 1. Coloradans, it turns out, are eager to adopt rescued animals. And Colorado rescue agencies are eager to help animals find families, whether the animals are born in the state or are imported from elsewhere.
“Colorado has been really proactive in how they handle helping animals in other states,” said Karen Walsh, director of the ASPCA Animal Relocation Initiative.
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