For nearly a century, the Brandywine Valley SPCA has been dedicated to helping animals in need, striving to end suffering and empower communities to treat all life with respect and dignity, writes Shannon Montgomery for County Lines Magazine.
Last year alone, BVSPCA saved a total of 17,082 animals, or over 47 animals a day.
The organization was founded in 1929 in West Chester as the Chester County SPCA. Over the following decades, it evolved from a county animal control shelter into the first open-admission, no-kill shelter in Pennsylvania.
The organization expanded to Delaware in 2016 with the New Castle campus and changed its name to the Brandywine Valley SPCA. Now, BVSPCA has its West Chester location along with three in Delaware, one in each county, as well as an adoption center in Plymouth Meeting.
With its help, Delaware became the nation’s first no-kill state five years ago.
BVSPCA has a live-release rate of at least 90 percent, including adoptions, returns to owners, transfers to other shelters, and releases back to the wild.
BVSPCA takes in animals from Chester and Delaware counties, Delaware, and the entire country.
Read more about Brandywine Valley SPCA helping animals in need in County Lines Magazine.
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