Petco and animal network team up for pet adoption day

Amy R. Spurgeon

NEWPORT-MESA -- Petco and Newport-Mesa’s Community Animal Network

will host a pet adoption day Saturday.

The Community Animal Network places pets in foster homes until they

are adopted. The animals come from loving homes in Newport-Mesa whose

owners can no longer provide them with shelter.

Since 1996, the network has been making pet and people connections

every day of the week, said network founder DiAnna Pfaff-Martin. The goal

is to find homes for needy animals.

Petco officials say they plan to work with at least one agency per

weekend in order to fight animal homelessness. The store will team up

with Greyhound Rescue later this year.

Animals will be available from noon to 3 p.m. at the Newport Beach

Petco at Bison Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard, and from 10:30 a.m. to

4:30 p.m. at the Costa Mesa store on Newport Boulevard at 18th Street.

Animals will be chaperoned by their owners. Cats from the Newport

Beach Animal Shelter also will be up for adoption.

For more information, call the Community Animal Network at (949)

759-3646.