By Contra Costa Animal Services Department

Our shelter is FULL and we need your help! Through April all animals are FREE* to qualified homes. Come visit us and let us help you find your new best friend. To see a full list of available animals with pictures, check out our website: ccasd.org

The Contra Costa Animal Services Department Martinez Shelter is located at 4800 Imhoff Place.

By Chantel Tieman

Hold Your Horses  Livestock Emergency Evacuation Response Team & Rescue is a local non-profit evacuation team and rescue based out of East Contra Costa County.

We are deployed by operations of emergency services, Calfire and local fire agencies and Animal Services. We not only rescue during disasters but whenever there are calls for neglect and abuse etc. For more information visit www.holdyourhorsesevac.com orour Facebook page.

Celebrate Antioch Foundation and the Rivertown Merchants announces their 2023 list of events in Antioch’s historic, downtown Rivertown in beginning in April. Some events will be hosted by or with other community partners. Download, print and post this flier on your refrigerator or save it in your phone’s photo album and add the list below to your calendar as reminders! To participate or for more information visit www.celebrateantioch.org or www.facebook.com/antiochrivertown.

Donations of warm blankets requested; Friend of Animal Services sponsoring all adoption fees until Dec. 31

Please join Antioch Friends of Animal Services President and Founder, Barbara Sobalvarro for cookies and punch, as we celebrate Home for the Holidays in the lobby of Antioch Animal Services on Saturday, December 17th from 1 to 3pm, 300 L Street in Antioch, adjacent to the Antioch Police Department.

We ask that you consider bringing a warm blanket for our animal friends to help keep them warm in the shelter!!

Our local shelter is bursting at the seams with amazing dogs and cats who would love nothing more than a family to call their own! In order to encourage adoption, we are sponsoring all adoption fees through the end of December, which includes spay/neuter, microchip and shots. Please view available pets at 24petconnect.com and call the shelter directly at (925) 779-6989 to make an appointment to meet the animal and adopt.

If you are unable to adopt, but would like to assist the animals, please consider a donation from the Antioch Animal Services Amazon Wishlist.

Kittens, Coffee and Hot Coco event

By Erin Pina, Furry Friends Pet Relief

Bring your pup and family down to MEET THE GRINCH and get your picture taken with him.

This Sunday, December 18, 2022 from 12:00 – 2:00 pm The Grinch will be at Kittens, Coffee and Hot Coco event.  At the Furry Friends Pet Relief Office, 708 West 2nd Street, in Antioch’s Historic Downtown Rivertown.

Come down for a cup of cheer and play with some Furry Friends looking for homes for the holidays. Pictures with the Grinch – $5 suggested donation.

For more information visit www.furryfriendsfoodre.wix.com/hr4p.

Rico ‘Pocket Change’ Jones from the Yock. Photos by Furry Friends Pet Relief

Has his own Facebook page!

By Erin Pina, Furry Friends Pet Relief

This little boy is “Rico ‘Pocket Change’ Jones from the Yock”. We rescued him from the local shelter. The special thing about him is that he is about a 1 in 3,000, some say 250,000, but I have been playing it conservative. He is special because of his coloring. Many cat colors are sex linked traits. Which means that females carry certain colors and males tend to carry other colors.

Rico is a Torbie which is a cross between a Tabby and a Tortoiseshell – the coloring itself it not seen too often. They usually have tabby stripes with black, brown and red tortoiseshell markings. The tortoiseshell color is a female color, but not for our little boy.

He is about 10 weeks old and has his own Facebook page.  Rico talks about how special he is and all kinds of fun facts that go along with it, such as, you are just as likely to be drafted into the NBA as you are to find a cat like him. If you ever get to the PGA tour and hit a Hole in One, you have about the same odds as finding one like him.

Torbies are thought to bring good luck, wealth, and protect you from bad storms and even ghosts.

This amazing little guy will be available for adoption through our organization in about a week.

Anyone interested in adopting can put in an application on our website at www.furryfriendsfoodre.wix.com/fffr.

Furry Friends Pet Relief Program is a 501c3 non-profit. Tax ID: 47-2163583 and is located at 708 W. Second Street in Antioch’s historic, downtown Rivertown.

“Helping those in need with their Furry Friends, keeping pets in their homes and out of the shelters.”