MyPetHealthGuide featured pet: Jack!

Our friends over at www.mypethealthguide.com are featuring another adorable adoptable from Adopt-a-Pet.com! Calling all Chicago-area Beagle lovers! We just got word that Jack, a purebred Beagle pup, needs a new home. Jack’s at least five years old, neutered, housetrained, and up-to-date on all shots. He’s a happy dog and his tail is always wagging despite a less-than-perfect past.

Jack hasn’t had much consistency in his life, ignored by his owners for years and finally taken to a shelter. Now Jack lives in doggie foster care, where he loves to go for walks and gets along very well with his canine brothers and sisters and humans of all ages.

If you’re looking to adopt a medium-size dog for a somewhat quiet, patient household, please consider teaching Jack about the finer things in life (e.g., a warm dog bed inside opposed to being chained to a doghouse in the backyard).

To read Jack’s full story, visit Adopt-a-Pet.com. He’s currently available for adoption at BREW Midwest, a Beagle rescue that consists of a network of volunteers and foster homes across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and western Pennsylvania.

 

Black Friday shelter pets!

Here is a great idea that an Adopt-a-Pet.com shelter partner shared with us! We liked it so much, we wanted to share it with you too. It’s an activity that can be fun for animal lovers of all ages to participate in making the promotional cards and handing them out in your local shopping centers. If you don’t already volunteer for a shelter or rescue that has black pets that need homes, you can run a search on Adopt-a-Pet.com, and then contact the shelters or rescues that have them listed, offering your free promotional help. We bet they’ll be thrilled! Here’s how Black Friday and a little creativity can help black shelter pets find homes:

“When we had a few black pets that needed a home around Thanksgiving we made up little cards that said ‘Black Friday’ with a really nice picture of the pet and a lot of the pet’s stats on the back like favorite toy, weight, age, breed, known tricks, nicknames, etc anything really that lets the potential adopter know about the animal.

We handed out the cards to shoppers who came out for all the deals for ‘Black Friday’ the day after Thanksgiving. It was a big hit! We had more adoptions that winter than in the 3 previous years!”  – Tracy Lee, Sheyenne Valley Friends of Animals, Lost and Found Coordinator

Thanks Tracy!

To make this super easy, we created a free Word document Black Friday Adopt A Pet flyer template you can download and edit with your shelter’s information:

Download: BLACK FRIDAY adopt a pet flyer (Word document)

Does your local shelter or rescue have a great idea for helping their pets get adopted? Email it to jennifer@cms.adoptapet.com for consideration as a future blog post here!

Note: The beautiful black cat in the photo above is Cleopatra, available for adoption in Southern California. See her video and find all about her on her Adopt-a-Pet.com page here: www.adoptapet.com/pet3883094.html