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Ithaca … Animal lovers and compassionate hearts are invited to a candlelight celebration of the lives saved since the Tompkins County SPCA became a No Kill animal shelter on Wednesday August 16th from 8:30-9:00pm at the Bernie Milton Pavilion on the Ithaca Commons. Festivities will include prayers, poems, a proclamation from the Mayor of Ithaca, candle lighting, and a few of our animals’ success stories– pets that in other communities might not have been given the second (third or fourth) chance they received here in Tompkins County.

Humane societies and animal organizations nationwide will be holding candlelight vigils on National Homeless Animals Day in August to bring attention to the tragic situation of dog and cat overpopulation. The overpopulation crisis condemns millions of companion animals to death every year. Taxpayer dollars are spent in the millions each year to euthanize homeless and unwanted animals.

However, things are different here in Tompkins County. For the fifth year in a row, the Tompkins County SPCA has saved each and every healthy and treatable animal that came into the shelter, making Tompkins County the most humane place for cats and dogs in the nation.

And this is cause for a celebration. This year, while other shelters across the country are mourning the animal lives unnecessarily lost in their communities, the TC SPCA will be honoring lives saved in ours.

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