Why was Charleston chosen as an ASPCA partner city?
The ability of Charleston’s local animal welfare groups to respectfully collaborate with one another was an important factor in its selection. The county’s animal welfare organizations have a strong history of working together to effectively address animal overpopulation and care through collaborative disaster response efforts, low-cost spay/neuter initiatives, adoption campaigns and cruelty prevention and law enforcement. Charleston’s community demographics, representative of most mid-sized cities around the country, are another factor. The county struggles with many of the same animal welfare issues common in other communities. These factors make Charleston’s achievements a model on which other communities can base their own growth.
