Success in National Adoption Challenge
Greensburg & Decatur County Animal Shelter Receives $2000 Grant for Lifesaving
Success in National Adoption Challenge
Best Friends Animal Society grant recognizes GDCAS for helping dogs and cats finds homes
through Bring Love Home Challenge
Greensburg, Indiana─ GDCAS has been awarded a $2000 grant from Best Friends Animal
Society, a leading national animal welfare organization working to save cats and dogs in
America’s shelters.
The grant recognizes GDCAS’s efforts to increase pet adoptions through successfully completing
the Best Friends Bring Love Home Challenge — a nationwide initiative led by Best Friends to
help more cats and dogs find homes this December.
The Bring Love Home Challenge ran from December 1-31, 2025. Nearly 300 organizations were
selected to participate, with 219 reporting their results, leading to an extraordinary 15,279 pets
finding homes in December — including 40 cat and dogs adopted and 24 sent to Rescues in December. They also for the first time cleared every single dog kennel and emptied the shelter
of doggies!
“We spent all of December celebrating the cats and dogs who got to be in a home for the
holidays thanks to our participation in the Bring Love Home Challenge,” said Larami Vailes
Adoption and Rescue Coordinator. “Being awarded this grant from Best Friends means we can
keep that incredible momentum going! This challenge, and grant, along with new practices such
as online forms, and Bi-lingual applications to help language barriers, will have lasting effects
for the pets in our care, and for our community.”
Participants in the Bring Love Home Challenge piloted data-backed best practices to make pet
adoption and fostering more accessible and welcoming to their community— which included
reducing adoption fees, shortening applications, offering multilingual adoption and foster
support, and more.
“More pets being adopted and fostered means more lives saved. We’re proud to recognize
GDCAS for their commitment to lifesaving,” said Whitney Bollinger, Director of Strategy &
Network Operations, Best Friends Animal Society. “Participating in the Bring Love Home
Challenge got cats and dogs out of shelters and into homes in December, and we are excited to
see this lifesaving continue with even more pets in Decatur County the loving homes they
deserve!“
About Best Friends Animal Society
Best Friends Animal Society is a leading animal welfare organization dedicated to saving the
lives of dogs and cats in America’s shelters and making the entire country no-kill. Founded in
1984, Best Friends runs lifesaving facilities and programs nationwide in partnership with more
than 5,500 shelters and rescue organizations. From our headquarters in Kanab, Utah, we also
operate the nation’s largest no-kill animal sanctuary — a destination that brings our mission to
life for thousands of visitors each year. We maintain the most comprehensive animal sheltering
data in the country and make it accessible to the public — empowering communities with
critical insights into the needs of their local shelters and how they can help. We believe every
dog and cat deserves a home. And we believe that, by working together, we can Save Them
All®.
