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On Saturday, dozens of animals found new homes at one of the adoption events happening in the Bay Area.
Since 2015, NBC Bay Area and Telemundo 48 have been helping clear animal shelters across the Bay Area during the entire month of August. This is part of the stations’ Clear the Shelters campaign, which has helped more than 1.3 million pets find new homes and raised more than $5.6 million to help support shelters and their public outreach efforts.
Employees from NBC Bay Area and Telemundo 48 return and bring home their own furry forever friends, and every year they return to help raise awareness about the issues facing our local shelters.
At the Santa Clara County Animal Shelter, dozens of animals found their forever homes, including a puppy named Jessica.
Miguel Paredes, a first-time pet owner, adopted a puppy named Chris Chmura.
“I’ve always really loved dogs, and this is my first time getting one, so I’m really excited, and I want to give him all the love I can,” Paredes said.
NBC Bay Area anchor Audrey Asistio also welcomed a new furry family member with a familiar name.
“I can’t believe we adopted Audrey Asistio. We’re going to have to change your name baby girl,” Asistio said.
Today in the Bay anchors Laura Garcia and Marcus Washington were at Berkeley Humane with reporter Bob Redell and others. Berkeley Humane was hosting its annual Bark (and Meow) Around the Block adoption event.
Billed as California’s largest single adoption event, with live music and food, it attracts thousands of participants and every year hundreds of cats, dogs, rabbits and other animals find new homes during the Clear The Shelters month.
“We’ll essentially be doing an adoption every two minutes, which is a huge number of animals going into homes, and that’s important, because the shelters are very full right now, and for every animal that is adopted today, we make more room in the rescues and the shelters for other animals that need the support that they can provide,” Berkeley Humane Executive Director Jeffery Zerwekh said.
Clear The Shelters helped more than 160,000 pets get adopted nationwide in 2025 and raised nearly $630,000 for shelters. Over the past 12 years, the local donations have helped immensely.
“Because we’ve been able to fund raise a little more than $1 million from what I understand, and that might not sound like a lot to folks, but it means quite a bit to us when we run this shelter,” District One Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors VP Sylvia Arenas said.
More than 30 shelters are taking part in the Bay Area and more than 300 pets are expected to find new homes.
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