A’s, Sacramento SPCA pitch adoptable dogs to fans at Tuesday home games

Shelter pups in need of a forever home have a chance to be seen by a larger crowd thanks to a new partnership between the Athletics and the Sacramento SPCA.

At every Tuesday home game for the A’s at Sutter Health Park this season, the SPCA will be pitching dogs that are up for adoption to the fans filing into the stadium.

Tuesday night, a table was set up near the lawn seating in the outfield featuring two adoptable pups: a 5-year-old husky mix, Bellatrix, who has been at the shelter since March, and a 7-year-old terrier, Montana, who arrived in April.

“The more animals that we get adopted, the more kennel space that we have to take in more animals,” Cassandra Carey with the SPCA.

It comes as shelters and rescues all across our region are overcrowded, as more pets come in than are adopted out…

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