Almost 50 healthy dogs were adopted through the Yelp Baton Rouge initiative in just six weeks according statement from group’s founders at Commercial Properties Realty Trust. Yelp is hosting another adoption day Dec. 5 at three locations in Baton Rouge at Main and Fifth streets, Perkins Road and Acadian Thruway and Coursey Boulevard at Sherwood Forest Boulevard.
East Baton Rouge Parish Animal & Rescue Center Director Hilton Cole says the Yelp Baton Rouge Initiative is a big part of how they are trying to increase the number of animal adoptions each year. Cole says they are also working with “six other major animal control groups in the area by allowing them to take animals out of the shelter and do remote adoptions.” That’s a big help, he says, because location of their facility can be a deterrent when families consider adopting an animal. “We’re up at the airport and people don’t like to drive up here with all the traffic,” he says.
Cole says the planned Animal Control Adoption and Education Center on donated land at Old Hammond Highway and Millerville Road will help increase the numbers of adopted animals in the parish in the future. Cole says that between 998 and 1,200 health cats and dogs are adopted through their current facility.
For more information on the Dec. 5 Yelp Baton Rouge adoption day, visit YelpBR.com.—Olivia Watkins
