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Tag: homeless pets

Julie Hemingway cuddles her pet tabby cat, Tammy, at the Sacramento Triage Shelter for people who are homeless in Sacramento. Photo by Max Whittaker for CALmatters.
Posted inPolitics

To help people off the streets and into shelters, welcome their pets?

Elizabeth Castillo by Elizabeth Castillo March 3, 2019June 23, 2020

Most shelters for people experiencing homelessness still don’t accept pets. But a bill under consideration in the California Legislature aims to make the practice more common—creating $5 million in grants to reward shelters that welcome people and their pets.

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