Timeline Stories

Emergency Rescue Team is one of the first on site to assist local shelters after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. League subsequently creates the Katrina Animal Rescue Fund.

Volunteer Beth Stern becomes official spokesperson, raising our profile and generating countless rescues and adoptions.

Don and Karen LaRocca donate funds and design the dog park.

Laura J. Niles Foundation donates funding for second mobile adoption unit.

With Purina as sponsor, completes first Tour for Life®. A single mobile unit travels “From the Golden Gate to the Empire State,” saving more than 200 animals. Purina also becomes the sponsor of our Global Pet Adoptathon®.

Name changes to North Shore Animal League America, Inc., reflecting growing national scope of programs.

Uses new Mobile Adoption Unit. to pioneer two off-site adoption programs: Mobile Adoption Program (MAP), which transports our pets to high-traffic areas, leading to countless adoptions; and Cooperative Adoption Program (CAP), through which we share our mobile units with small rescue groups and shelter partners, saving even more lives.

Conducts first annual Pet Adoptathon®, saving 525 lives. Today it is the Global Pet Adoptathon®, reaching around the world and saving tens of thousands.

Develops Seniors for Seniors® Program, which enables senior citizens to adopt well-matched senior pets, with some veterinary costs covered.