PAWS & More Animal Shelter is being featured by a nationally-known social media personality today to raise funds for ongoing expenses.

Kris Rotonda of Jordan’s Way is hosting a Facebook livestream from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. from PAWS & More, where he’ll be enlisting the help of local officials and community leaders for challenges and surprises to encourage his roughly 70,000 followers to donate online to the shelter. Rotonda is on a 50-state tour to help fundraise and increase adoptions for animal shelters, and he’s held recent campaigns in Des Moines and Fort Madison. PAWS & More Director Amber Talbot shares why they’ve set their goal for $15,000, “I think our biggest needs currently are going to be kind of just our ongoing medical care that we provide to the animals. All of our veterinary services are often unpredictable, we don’t know what those expenses are going to be. We just transferred in a dog yesterday who happens to be heartworm positive, and so those are unforeseen expenses that come up. And that’s where we really need the community’s support because our current funding that we have and programming, those don’t necessarily cover those unforeseen expenses, so it’s really for the care of those animals.”

KCII will also be livestreaming some of the action on our Facebook page, and you can listen to Monday’s Halcyon House Washington Page with Talbot here.