Shelter adoption success -- and more needs

So here are the numbers from last weekend's special Valentine's Day adoption event  at the Harbor Area Animal Shelter in San Pedro. Adopted over the 2-day event were: 

• 30 dogs
• 21 cats
• 6 rabbits
• 1 rat   

Thanks to Herb Zimmer of Priority One Printing  and Wellington Signs, both in San Pedro, for chipping in: Herb donated fliers for the event and Wellington donated a colorful banner. And thanks especially to all those who provided homes for some homeless animals (yeah, even the rat -- ewww).

But the work isn't done.

The shelter is still in need of volunteer dog walkers, expert computer help for marketing, and financial donations to the non-profit, shelter support group Pedro Pet Pals.

The shelter is hoping to increase visitor numbers and, of course, adoptions.

Of immediate concern is a girl named Frenchy, a Sharpei/pitbull mix who has special needs and is desperately in need of a caring home. Frenchy is almost bald as a result of non-contagrious dermatitis and needs someone who will understand and nurture her.

From Nicky at the shelter:

She's totally goofy, not a great beauty, and if you sit on the floor with her, she leaps into your lap (all 35 lbs of her) and her nose shoots up behind your neck and you get a big bear hug -- and there she stays until you peel her off you! She's remarkable, very unusual, extremely sweet and desperately in need of the perfect home, preferably as an only dog, I think.

*(The velcro action sounds so much like my border collie Tess; she's on top of my head and all over me before I know it whenever I invite her up on the couch; still trying to work on that.)

This photo, by the way, doesn't do Frenchy justice, I'm told: