- November 18, 2024
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SAFFARI rescue is forgoing traditional pet adoption events in favor of something new: quirky routines like kitty ‘speed dating’ or kitty ‘prom.’
“They’re weird. I know,” SAFFARI founder Ruth Repprecht said at a cat ‘speed dating’ event Saturday at the Hilton Garden Inn on State Road 100. “But you know what? It works.”
The ‘speed dating’ strategy, where visitors would rotate past stations with different cats, paired 16 cats or kittens with news homes by the end of the day, she said.
The organization is planning a similar event for dogs in the Daytona area, as well as a kitty prom, complete with a disco ball and dance floor.
The first kitty adoption of the Saturday speed dating event, SAFFARI’s first, paired 8-week old kitten Ariana with 6-year-old Isabella Lipkovich.
Ariana’s mother, Repprecht said, had died from a snakebite. A good Samaritan found the kittens — a litter of four — and brought then to SAFFARI.
Another 15 cats and kittens, many of them former feral cats, were adopted throughout the evening.
For more information on SAFFARI, visit facebook.com/saffarirescue.
