By Sally H.N. Wright

The North Shore Animal League of England is sponsoring its sixth annual adoptathon May 7, and volunteers from the Golden Spike Humane Society in Brigham City plan to help with this worldwide event.

Members of Brigham City's animal rescue organization will be at Riverdale PETsMART from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. May 7, working to find abandoned pets good, permanent homes. This is the first year it will participate in the North Shore Animal League's annual adoption event.

The league works with animal shelters and rescue organizations and encourages them to stay open extra hours and make their adoptable pets more visible during the fist weekend in May. Last year on that weekend, through agencies in Russia, China, India, South Africa, Venezuela, North America and Europe, more than 37,000 orphaned pets found homes.

""This is exciting and we really want people to know how active we are rescuing animals, and how hard we work," said Phylene Anderson, president of The Golden Spike Humane Society. "All these different agencies have the same goal-finding homeless pets good homes. It's good we can all work together."

The similarities in the agencies' missions is apparent, even across oceans. The North Shore Animal League's slogan, "Loves Needs No Pedigree," is a near-perfect match with Golden Spike Humane Society vice president Paula Foit's favorite saying: "Pedigrees don't make good pets; good people do."

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