The Brief
- 192 cats and dogs were adopted during Clear the Shelters weekend.
- Event ran Friday–Sunday with adoption fees waived for pets three months and older.
- Some people even camped out overnight to make sure they went home with a furry friend.
TAMPA – The Humane Society of Tampa Bay is celebrating a record-setting Clear the Shelters weekend.
From Friday through Sunday, the shelter was filled with people eager to adopt — with lines forming outside before doors opened each day. Adoption fees were waived for animals three months and older, and by the end of the weekend, 192 had found homes.
Among them was Aakilah Brown, who showed up outside the shelter at 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning. She slept on a bench to make sure she could adopt a schnauzer named Snoopy, after also taking home a Lab puppy the day before.
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