YORKVILLE — While most New Yorkers waited in lines for discounted electronics, clothes and Snapchat Spectacles on Black Friday — others queued up for cats.
ASPCA's "Cat Friday" event at their East 92nd Street center saw the highest number of adoptions — 89 cats and kittens got new homes — in a single day, according to officials.
During the event, which took place on Nov. 25, the ASCPA waived all adoption fees.
In addition 44 more animals who were not ready for adoption were placed on hold, which means owners will be ready for them when they're older or healthy enough, according to organizers.
During last year's Cat Friday event, only 61 cats and six dogs were adopted, they said.
"The enormous success of Cat Friday demonstrates New Yorkers’ deep instinct for compassion, even on a day so focused on consumerism," said Matt Bershadker, the ASPCA's president, in a statement.
Would be-adopters formed a line down the block outside the 424 E. 92nd St. adoption center on Friday, even in the rain, for the chance to adopt a cat or kitten for free.
Usually adoption fees are $125 for kittens, and $75 for cats 1 year or older.
Those who adopted a pet were also given free collars, free personalized identification tags, and for older cats, a free hard cat carrier.
Everyone who took a cat home were also entered in a contest for tickets to the Broadway show "Cats."
"Moving these animals from the shelter to safe and loving homes is a life-changing gift to them and to the families who take them in, and I hope this amazing event inspires potential adopters to also open their homes and hearts to pets in need," Bershadker said.
DNAinfo New York captured some of the kittens that were up for adoption Friday on a Facebook Live video that can be seen below.
