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Free pet adoptions going on now at Cobb County animal shelter

(Left) Ingrid and (right) Chula are some of the animals waiting at Cobb County Animal Control, which is running a free holiday adoption program for pets who are spayed and neutered.

Credit: Cobb County Animal Control

Credit: Cobb County Animal Control

(Left) Ingrid and (right) Chula are some of the animals waiting at Cobb County Animal Control, which is running a free holiday adoption program for pets who are spayed and neutered.
By Ben Brasch
Dec 22, 2016

As for a last-minute gift, you can do much worse than giving an animal a home.

Cobb County Animal Control is offering free pet adoptions for animals who are already spayed and neutered.

The shelter has at least 139 pets, according to its database.

But you have to come by the shelter, 1060 Al Bishop Drive, before Saturday at noon. It opens at 9:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday.

If you want your heart to melt: Video shows Colorado shelter celebrate all its pets getting forever homes

Best Friends-Atlanta, 4874 S. Atlanta Road in Smyrna, is also running an adoption program called the "12 Strays of Christmas." It highlights a different pet every day running up to the holiday.

So consider something furry as a gift this holiday season.

About the Author

Ben Brasch is the reporter tasked with keeping Fulton County government accountable. The Florida native moved to Atlanta for a job with The AJC. If there's something important to you going on in Fulton, he wants to know about it. Help him better metro Atlanta by dropping a line, anonymously or otherwise.

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