(Stock image via Pexels) In my inbox this morning, a press release promoting a holiday adoption drive in which the shelter in Charlotte, North Carolina is participating: Bissell Pet Foundation is bringing hope to homeless pets across the country this holiday season with its “Empty the Shelters – Holiday Hope” event, December 6 - 20, 2021. … Continue reading Adopting a Shelter Pet during the Holidays
Category: marketing shelter pets
Content Warning: Memphis Shelter Pets for Adoption
The Memphis Animal Services website provides photos for most of the listed adoptables but scant descriptions, usually just a couple words such as "heartworm positive" if anything at all. So there's no way of knowing if the pets in the photos are connected with cruelty cases or what their history may be. And since the … Continue reading Content Warning: Memphis Shelter Pets for Adoption
Long Term Shelter Pets
Screenshot from Twitter. Using Twitter to promote a dog for adoption. ✔️ Nice photo showing a bit of the dog's personality. ✔️ 523 days in the shelter. ❌ This is not intended to target the PSPCA for shaming. Rather, I hope to help find this dog a home and possibly reach some shelters who are … Continue reading Long Term Shelter Pets
Alabama Shelter Kills 30 Big Dogs After Adoption Event
In a newspaper interview, Montgomery Humane Society's executive director Steven Tears lamented the number of dogs being surrendered lately, especially the ones over 50 pounds: Only one name [on the adoption board] belongs to a bigger dog, one of more than two dozen medium-to-large dogs up for adoption at the Montgomery animal shelter’s main facility. And down … Continue reading Alabama Shelter Kills 30 Big Dogs After Adoption Event
Marketing Shelter Pets: My Name is
Shelter pets need names. A shelter pet with a name (accompanied by a fabulous photo!) comes across as an individual with a personality - not an unwanted, caged animal being held for killing. Pets with names are a little more appealing to adopters and it doesn't cost anything to give them this small benefit. One … Continue reading Marketing Shelter Pets: My Name is
Guest Post: Photographing Shelter Pets
Note: Many readers will recognize Casey Post's photos from previous blog posts. She captures such wonderful expressions on shelter pets and I love using her pictures. I asked her to write about how she photographs and markets each animal as an individual. *** I take pictures of animals for the Medina County SPCA in Seville, … Continue reading Guest Post: Photographing Shelter Pets
Discussion: Are Shelters Keeping Online Listings for Lost/Adoptable Animals Current?
When I was looking for a beagle recently, I was checking Petfinder, PetHarbor and a few other sites day and night. I wasn't limiting myself to facilities within reasonable driving distance either. I really wanted to help a beagle who needed a home and I figured that a municipal shelter was probably the way to … Continue reading Discussion: Are Shelters Keeping Online Listings for Lost/Adoptable Animals Current?
Look What You’ve Done Now
"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” - John Burroughs x
Be Here Now: Loving Pets Available in Shelters
I was researching a public shelter and couldn't find a website for the facility so visited its page on Petfinder. At the top of that page, the shelter had a quote from another website which reads, in part: ALL SHELTER DOGS WERE ONCE NORMAL PUPPIES eager to learn how to live with people. Yet far too … Continue reading Be Here Now: Loving Pets Available in Shelters
The Case for Free Shelter Pets
Free. People get excited when they see the word in front of most anything - except pets. In recent years, anyone who advertises or seeks a free pet has been subject to attack from seemingly well-intentioned animal advocates and probably alienated about the entire concept of adopting a pet in need. If you are giving … Continue reading The Case for Free Shelter Pets