After providing shelter and adoption services for the Peninsula communities for more than 50 years, the Peninsula SPCA took a brave, new direction when it transitioned to an adoption guarantee or "no kill" shelter in January 2015. Since then, the Peninsula SPCA has been able to expand its services for the Peninsula community to not only include adoption services, but humane education programs and preventive veterinary care.What is Adoption Guarantee?Adoption Guarantee, or "no-kill," is defined as saving both healthy and treatable (medically and behaviorally) dogs and cats, with euthanasia reserved only for unhealthy & untreatable animals. An adoption-guarantee shelter will have a "save rate" of at least 90%, meaning 10% or less of the pets who enter the shelter are euthanized due to severe illness or extreme aggression.At the Peninsula SPCA, it means that we pledge to find a home for every adoptable animal that we take in to shelter. As an Adoption-Guarantee shelter we will not exceed our shelter's capacity for care, we will never resort to euthanasia as a means of population management, and healthy and treatable animals can stay with us as long as it takes to find them new homes.As we care for the community's homeless pets, we will dedicate our energy and resources to finding them forever homes. We will develop and offer programs that reach out to the pets and pet owners of our community, offering resources that help keep companion animals healthy and at home with their owners and reduce the number of companion pets entering shelters.