Labradors and Friends has participated in these wonderful community events since the Foundation began hosting them, including its Valentine’s Day and holiday adoption celebrations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite the gray skies, our volunteers traveled from Orange County with adoptable dogs, ready to introduce them to potential forever families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There were wet paws, wagging tails, and plenty of smiles. And the best part? Two adoption applications!<\/strong> ❤️<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every application represents the possibility of a new beginning for a dog waiting for a family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Events like these bring rescue organizations, animal lovers, and the community together for one shared purpose: helping homeless pets find loving homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We’re grateful to the San Diego Animal Support Foundation<\/strong> for continuing to create these opportunities year after year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And to our incredible volunteers who loaded up the dogs, made the drive, and spent their day representing Labradors and Friends despite the rain\u2014thank you for always showing up!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Because rescue doesn’t wait for sunny skies. <\/strong>❤️<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rain couldn’t stop our volunteers! Labradors and Friends joined the San Diego Animal Support Foundation’s annual adoption event at Grossmont Center, bringing adoptable dogs, dedicated volunteers, and two promising adoption applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13,14],"tags":[75,114,59,118,116,115,40,117],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event-highlights","category-events","category-rescue-news","tag-adoptable-dogs","tag-adoption-events","tag-community-outreach","tag-grossmont-center","tag-rain-or-shine","tag-rescue-volunteers","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-animal-support-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Selina](\"https:\/\/labradorsandfriends.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/840823166_2573162566441289_7880473224138845182_n-768x1024.jpg\")
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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nA Partnership That Makes a Difference<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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