Using Facebook to get dogs and cats adopted Below are tips to help rescues and shelters use their Facebook fan pages more effectively in order to help more pets get adopted. If your shelter does not have a fan page, start one right now! I’m referring to public fan pages here, not closed groups or …
Dog adoption
I am not exactly sure what a perfect day would be like for my foster dog Dora. I have only known her for six weeks. Still, I wanted to try my best to give her a special day – a day as perfect as possible. Just for her.
Thoughts on the No Kill Conference A strange piece to the No Kill Conference that I attended last weekend was how person after person told me “I didn’t tell my shelter I’d be here.” A woman from Georgia said she would definitely be fired if her shelter director knew she attended. A woman from Louisiana said …
What are you doing to help your community become no kill? I am attending the No Kill Conference this weekend in D.C. Presenters at the No Kill Conference will include some of the country’s most successful shelter directors and animal lawyers. These speakers will teach attendees how to use the legal system to save the lives of …
Senior black lab for adoption – Dora! It’s hard not to feel sorry for an older dog like Dora, but I don’t feel sorry for her. I don’t think she feels sorry for herself, and I don’t think she wants anyone to feel sorry for her. I do wonder about her, though. She always has me thinking. …
Meet Dora! On an emotional impulse I decided to take in a new foster dog, an elderly black Lab I named Dora. (To foster a homeless dog means to provide her with a loving home until she gets adopted.) I have a soft spot for older dogs and a soft spot for black dogs, so I …
Black lab mix for adoption Who remembers the good boy named Dex I featured a while back? Dex is a playful lab-type dog currently up for adoption with 4 Luv of Dog Rescue in Fargo, N.D. While he waits for someone to adopt him, Dex is living at a dog boarding and training facility where …
In April I filled out a volunteer application with a local shelter … I listed that I was available for cleaning morning and night and interested in fostering. I filled the form out at the shelter and physically handed it over. A month rolled around, then a few more weeks, and I never heard anything back. …
Sometimes making it just a little easier for someone to adopt a pet will go a long way as far as getting more pets into homes. Pets will be available at discounted rates this weekend at the Humane Society of Fargo-Moorhead during its impromptu “adopt-a-thon” June 8, 9 and 11, according to the shelter’s web …
In a fantasy world, no one would every consider re-homing a pet. No one would need to. But in the real world, sometimes good owners need to responsibly re-home their cats. The scenarios are endless. Someone loses a job or a house or a spouse. Someone must move overseas or to an area that does …