The cat rooms inside the Miramichi SPCA looked slightly less crowded than normal – a telling sign that their November initiative is doing what they hoped.
“I’ve never seen so much foot traffic coming in and out of the shelter, so many messages on our page, emails, everything like that,” said Drew Bowie who has been a shelter assistant for nearly four years now.
“It’s been awesome. It’s been like nothing I’ve seen yet while working here.”
Normally, adoptions range between $65 to $125 for cats and kittens, but this month, adult cats are finding their forever homes for free.
“It tends to slow down kind of up until Christmas, so we’re looking at maybe 10 adoptions a month versus in the last two weeks it’s been 34,” said Bowie.
“The amount of people that we’ve been getting come in from out of province, out of city and all that …