Author: Dana

LOS ANGELES – JULY 20, 2015 – Between six million and eight million homeless pets enter shelters every year. That’s why Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC, the original real estate startup founded in 1906, is teaming up with Adopt-a-Pet.com to organize the Homes for Dogs National Pet Adoption Weekend.

 

This nationwide event builds on the success of the “Homes for Dogs Project,” a national campaign hosted by Coldwell Banker and Adopt-a-Pet.com that aims to find homes for 20,000 adoptable dogs in 2015. On August 1-2, Coldwell Banker offices in communities across the United States, along with shelters and rescue groups in the Adopt-a-Pet.com network, will join forces for one of the largest adoption events of the year.

 

“It’s shocking to think of how many homeless dogs enter shelters each year,” said Sean Blankenship, chief marketing officer for Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. “So many of us at Coldwell Banker are dog lovers — that’s why we launched this program. Between our 86,000 affiliated sales associates and the 15,000 Adopt-a-Pet.com shelters, we’re hoping that we can truly make a difference through a major adoption event.”

 

Coldwell Banker Real Estate launched the “Homes for Dogs Project” in February 2015 with the brand’s national television commercial, “Home’s Best Friend,” which aired on the 87th Academy Awards. The ad spot featured half a dozen real rescue dogs, such as Max, who was adopted in 2014 after being spotted on Adopt-a-Pet.com.

 

“We were thrilled when Coldwell Banker Real Estate came to us about this campaign,” said Abbie Moore, executive director of Adopt-a-Pet.com. “Together, we know we can make an impact on communities across the country.”

 

To find a list of pet adoption events, please visit http://www.adoptapet.com/homesfordogs.

 

About Adopt-a-Pet.com

Adopt-a-Pet.com is North America’s largest non-profit pet adoption website.  We help over 15,000 animal shelters, humane societies, SPCAs, pet rescue groups, and pet adoption agencies advertise their purebred and mixed breed pets for free to millions of adopters each month.  Sponsored by the pet lovers at Purina, Bayer AnimalHealth LLC, and the Petco Foundation we help homeless dogs, cats, and even rabbits and other animals go from alone to adopted.  But we don’t stop there.  Adopt-a-Pet.com also provides valuable information on the human/companion animal relationship to help keep pets healthy and successfully living in their loving homes.  Visit our facebook page and blog for supportive content and articles, and our YouTube channel for entertaining and informative pet training videos, all produced by our staff of experts in animal training and behavior, as well as human psychology.

About Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC
Since 1906, the Coldwell Banker® organization has been a premier provider of full-service residential and commercial real estate brokerage services.   Coldwell Banker Real Estate is the oldest national real estate brand and franchisor in the United States, and today has a network of approximately 3,000 independently owned and operated franchised broker offices in 43 countries and territories with more than 86,000 independent sales professionals affiliated with the network.  The Coldwell Banker brand is known for creating innovative consumer services as recently seen by being the first national real estate brand with an iPad app, the first to augment its website www.coldwellbanker.com for smart phones, the first to create a iPhone application with international listings, the first to offer sellers to tell their stories on property listings through Homeowners Notes and the first to fully harness the power of video in real estate listings, news and information through its Coldwell Banker On Location^SM YouTube channel. Coldwell Banker Real Estate has also harnessed the power of technology and data bringing the two together for affiliated sales associates with the brand’s exclusive CBx iPad application, which details traits and characteristics of a home’s potential buyers. The brand also utilizes Zap to manage leads and help buyers and sellers customize their experience. The Coldwell Banker System is a leader in niche markets such as resort, new homes and luxury properties through its Coldwell Banker Previews International® marketing program delivering exceptional experiences for all consumers served.

 

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If you’re looking to add a furry family member to your pack, you don’t want to miss the Homes For Dogs National Adoption Weekend, brought to you by Adopt-a-Pet.com and Coldwell Banker Real Estate! All across the country, awesome dogs will be waiting to meet you and find loving adopters to take them home to start their new lives – and it is all happening this Saturday, August 1^st and Sunday, August 2^nd.

To find a location near you, visit www.adoptapet.com/homesfordogs. Mark your calendars and don’t miss the adoption event of the year!

SO true! Love cannot be bought. But, boy oh boy, can it be rescued!!!  The beauty seen here is Fanny, an awesome dog who was available for adoption in Hollywood, California from The Mutt Scouts — she’s been adopted, yay! You can see her ADOPTED  profile and other cuties who are still available for adoption at The Mutt Scouts here. If you don’t live near Hollywood CA you can find your own local adoption love by running a search on our website www.adoptapet.com. If you like this image, like our Facebook page www.facebook.com/adoptapetcom for more!

What’s your daily routine like? If you’re like us, we’re guessing that you spend at least a little time each day using social media. Maybe you’re sharing your favorite recipe, posting photos from your fun weekend adventures with the family, or just keeping up-to-date and connected with friends. This month, we have a special challenge for you that will give you a new reason to use your favorite social platforms. It’s called Social PETworking and it saves the lives of shelter pets!

 

If you follow us on Facebook, you already know that we post one adoptable pet each day and encourage the animal lovers in our community to “share” that pet on their own Facebook pages. This daily post helps bring exposure to that individual pet and has helped so many find their loving forever home, and it got us asking ourselves what might happen if other animal lovers did that, too. If everyone reading this message chose a pet from Adopt-a-Pet.com to share on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Pinterest how many pets might be saved? What if all of those people did that every day for a week? Or longer? The answer: We might just empty out animal shelters.

 

Ready for the challenge?

1. Search locally adoptable pets on Adopt-a-Pet.com. You can search for dogs, cats, or a variety of other types of pets.
2. Choose a pet that you want to help.
3. Share that pet using your favorite social media platform. When sharing you can include some info about the pet and this challenge, encouraging others to join in.

 

Want to step it up a notch? Here are some other ideas to help get you started!

• Instead of sharing one pet today, challenge yourself to do it every day for a week. Or a month. Or longer!
• If you’re on Pinterest, start an adoptable pets pin board and add locally adoptable pets frequently. Consider it your virtual rescue organization.
• Do you have a website or blog of your own? Add Adopt-a-Pet.com search tools and allow your site visitors to search for adoptable pets right from your website.

 

What other Social PETworking ideas can you come up with? Tell us on our Facebook wall or send us a Tweet.

 

A dog that loves everyone is certainly a wonderful thing, but sometimes that enthusiasm leads to a little too much excitement. Do you find your dog jumping on friends instead of greeting them politely? If you answered yes, this video training tip from our friends at Wagfield is for you!

 

As you’ll see, we need to first train in easier, low-key situations on leash with family so we can set your dog up for success and reward the behavior we want before taking it up a notch to more challenging, exciting moments with new friends.

 

When training, build in baby steps, having several successful repetitions before moving up in difficulty. It takes practice, but building a foundation of learning how to be cool, calm and collected will pay off greatly as your pup matures.

 

Follow these “Paw by Paw” instructions for exactly how to train this behavior first on leash and then with guests coming into your home. With a little practice every day, your dog will be greeting strangers like a gentleman in no time!

Contributed by Wagfield Academy, the online dog training school. For more info on Wagfield Academy, please visit https://www.wagfield.com.

Everyone loves a good game of Jenga – especially this cat who has proven himself to have superior Jenga skills than every one of us! Watch the video below:

 

We Love a Good Adoption Story! Don’t You? One of our favorite classic tales of adoption might also be one of your favorites. ANNIE, which made its stage premiere back in 1976, went on to be a Broadway hit the following year, with a movie version following soon after in 1982. Now, all these years later, the inspiring adoption tale is back with a twist. In the new version, little orphan Annie is now a foster child, but one important thing remains the same: Sandy, the adorable homeless dog who stars alongside Annie, is adopted by Annie in all versions! You’ve got to just love that! For more on the Blu-ray™ release of the film or to enter to win a trip (with your dog!) to NYC where ANNIE was filmed, visit www.Annie-Movie.com.

The Homes for Dogs Project, which kicked off earlier this month, is a collaboration between Coldwell Banker and Adopt-a-Pet.com and aims to find loving homes for 20,000 of the awesome shelter dogs available for adoption on Adopt-a-Pet.com in 2015. As part of this fun campaign, we recently spent the day with the pet-loving Coldwell Banker team at the Best Friends Adoption Center in Mission Hills, California making this fun video (and meeting some of the adorable shelter dogs who are hoping to find love as a result of the project). Check it out!

Today, we have a very special Happy Beginnings story to share with you. It’s one filled with the glitter of the Hollywood lights and even a red carpet! The story starts off pretty sad, with little Max abandoned and alone. He was found as a stray in a field and then brought to an animal shelter in a part of California where animal homelessness is not uncommon. But what is uncommon is Max’s amazing turn-around. We’re talking a story fit for the big screen. You see, little Max not only found love when he was adopted by Kelly – an advertising executive at Siltanen & Partners, a firm that works with Coldwell Banker. He also found himself starring in a commercial for Coldwell Banker’s newest passion project, Homes for Dogs, which will make its television debut this Sunday, February 22nd during the Academy Awards! Yes, that’s right – Max will be starring in a commercial during the Oscars! How’s that for awesome?
Here’s what Kelly has to say about her loving relationship with Max:

“I found him on Adopt-a-Pet.com as I was looking for a male dog to rescue/adopt of that sort of breed and age. As soon as I saw his picture I just knew he was the pet for me. I contacted the Dexter Foundation and arranged to go and meet him in person the next week at a local pet adoption event. I fell in love with him immediately…we soon fell into a routine and it’s been bliss ever since. Now, I couldn’t imagine life without him. He comes to work with me almost every day and has become part of the S&P family. He has a spring in his step every day now that he is in a healthy, loving environment he can truly call home. It was kismet that we came into each other’s lives and some people inquire, “who rescued whom?!!”

We’re so happy for Max and Kelly and we can’t wait to see his adorable face on TV this Sunday! Watch the Oscars on Sunday and be on the lookout for Max in the new Coldwell Banker commercial. Then, let’s hit Twitter together to talk about it using the #HomeRocks hash tag.  You can also get a sneak preview of the commercial on the Coldwell Banker site (and learn more about why pet adoption is important to them!)

It’s no surprise that we believe that every loving animal should have a loving family and a warm, snuggly place to call home. But we’re not the only ones! Our friends at Coldwell Banker Real Estate, the home experts with 108 years of experience helping people find their homes, are doing something really special to make that a reality for the shelter pets on Adopt-a-Pet.com. Starting this week is the Coldwell Banker Homes for Dogs Project, a national campaign that aims to help 20,000 dogs find loving homes to call their own! To kick off the challenge, Coldwell Banker has released a fun new commercial that makes its debut during the Oscars onSunday February 22nd and shows the joys of coming home to your dog. Check out our sneak peek of the commercial, called “Home’s Best Friend,” and show Coldwell Banker some love for their support of this awesome cause by using #HomeRocks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!