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Northern California Pet Adoptions (NCPA)is a web site sponsored by Pet Food Express and the East Bay SPCA. The East Bay SPCA and Pet Food Express have partnered to create Northern California Pet Adoptions as part of Goal 2007’s life-saving mission to find loving homes for every adoptable animal in our community.
While the East Bay SPCA is a non-profit organization, and Pet Food Express operates a chain of retail stores throughout the community, both organizations are committed to creating better worlds for both people and their pets. Part of our goal is enable every shelter in the Bay Area to be part of Northern California Pet Adoptions.
Here’s how Northern California Pet Adoptions works:
Every participating shelter and rescue organization gets a place to put up animal pictures and bios, event information and contact information for their shelter. Visitors to the site can view animals in the data base by type, size, age and activity level and for specific shelters/rescues or from all the shelters/rescues at once. We’ve participated in over 53,100 adoptions through our site and with your help we can go much, much further towards creating happy endings for animals in need of families.
We will send over information to whoever will be responsible at your organization for the picture taking, sizing and uploading of information to the site. Basically a computer with internet access is all one needs to get up and running. The database/site updating application is all web based so it can be done from anywhere that has internet access.
Criteria for new shelter or rescue group admission
1. Must be an active Northern California animal welfare organizaton with a history of working well in the community.
2. 501(c)3
3. Have an Adoption Contract.
4. Charge an Adoption Fee.
5. Spay/Neuter and vaccinate all animals before going home.
6. Have a facility (including mobile adoption venues) or web site for viewing animals.
Responsibilities for Users
The animals that are on Northern California Pet Adoptions must be up-to-date at all times. This means as soon as an animal is adopted or transferred to another location, it should be taken off the site.
Pets must be available to be viewed in a public location sometime during the week or weekend (such as at Pet Food Express—but it can be at any mobile adoption location). This can be listed on the site under events.
A number or email to inquire about the animal and to arrange to make an appointment for viewing F2S (face to snout).
To begin the application process, please download and complete the PDF application. Once you complete the application — please email it, a copy of your adoption agreement and a copy of your 501c3 Status (if applicable) to the Web Admin.
