Clear the Shelters: East Texas raises 1,000 pounds of supplies, adopts nearly 500 pets

TYLER, Texas ( KETK ) – KETK’s Clear The Shelters 2024 has ended in success after East Texans adopted almost 500 pets and raised 1,000 pounds of supplies for local shelters and rescues.

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Clear the Shelters is a nationwide monthlong campaign put together every year by NBCUniversal in collaboration with local stations like KETK in order to help pets who need it most.

This year, KETK partnered with shelters from across East Texas in order to educate the public about supporting them through donations, volunteering, fostering and adopting. 480 pets were adopted here in East Texas and the nationwide campaign set a record for adoptions with 168,832 pets adopted from over 1,620 shelters across the country.

“It’s a privilege to once again to share the amazing results and impact of another record-breaking and milestone-setting effort to help pets find new homes and support the tremendous shelters that care for them when they’re most vulnerable,” said Meredith McGinn with NBCUniversal Local.

From Aug. 10 through Sept. 10 of this year East Texans dropped off pounds and pounds of all different kinds of supplies for KETK’s annual pet supply drive .

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Things like pet food, toys, training pads, newspapers and kennels lined the walls at KETK before being sent off to the following shelters and rescues:

• Animal Preservation of East Texas (APET)
• Athens Animal Services
• Blue Collar Mutts Rescue
• Henderson Animal Center and Protection
• Friends of Marshall Animals
• Kurth Memorial Shelter
• Longview Animal Care and Adoption Center
• Marshall Pet Adoption Center
• New Favorite Day
• Nacogdoches Animal Services and Adoption Center
• Nicholas’ Pet Haven
• The Humane Society’s Pets Fur People
• Tyler Animal Control and Shelter
• Save Rocky the Great Dane Rescue and Rehab
• Smith County Animal Control & Shelter
• SPCA of East Texas

It was all thanks to East Texans like the people pictured below who dropped off supplies and donations to KETK in person.

Nationally, this year’s Clear The Shelters has raised more than $500,000 for shelters across the country. To learn more, visit Clear The Shelters online …

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