Janine Woods is the executive director of the Mobile SPCA, an organization she has been a part of for close to 40 years. In a typical year, the organization takes in around 2,000 dogs and around 500 cats in the Mobile area and places them in homes or transports them to other shelters.

Here, Woods discusses the ongoing challenges of pet adoptions after the coronavirus pandemic and what advice she would give potential pet adopters.

Questions and answers have been condensed and edited for clarity.

Tell me a little bit about yourself and the Mobile SPCA?

Wow, that’s a big, long question. I don’t really know what to tell you about myself. I’ve just been doing this for a really long time. I joined the organization in 1984, and I can remember that because we had in 1985, our 100th anniversary. So, we are one of the oldest, continuously operating nonprofits, certainly in the state and probably in the country, because we have been trucking along for well over 125 years.