Here at Adopt-a-Pet.com, our staffs’ home offices are full of furry & friendly four-footed examples of the wonderful family pets you can find for adoption on Adopt-a-Pet.com! This helps explain why you may have noticed the excellent paw-menship in our email and newsletters, and the melodic barking in the background when you speak to us on the phone! We thought you might like to match a few of their happy faces (and happy adoption stories) to the woofs and meows you’ve known for so long. The Adopt-a-Pet.com staff pooches and felines are hard at work making sure the site runs smoothly for their friends who are still waiting to be adopted in local animal shelters and rescue organizations across North America. You can find your own furry coworker by running a search at Adopt-a-Pet.com too!
Our regal President, Peach, is pictured above. She is a 15-year-old Chow Chow mix, rescued when she was 2 years old. She had been dumped in the mountains outside Los Angeles, and is the sweetest dog ever. She loves cats and is a gentle soul.
Tully is a 15-year-old terrier mix who was adopted from a rescue by staff member Laurie. Tully maintains office morale and is featured in several of Adopt-a-Pet.com’s donation e-cards!
Major is a three-year-old Labrador Retriever who was rescued from an abusive situation and re-trained to be a diabetic alert dog. He now takes care of Laurie’s 10-year-old daughter Stella who is a type 1 diabetic.
Max is an 11-year-old American Mutt adopted from an animal shelter. He makes sure all deliveries are announced immediately! He starred in a video promoting pet adoption for Adopt-a-Pet.com, and occasionally models for photographs like the one above for the Adopt-a-Pet.com blog. He’s also available for freelance work involving lots of treats!
Skitty and Bella are 12-year-old twin sister cats adopted from an animal shelter, left there when their owner passed away. They excel at multi-tasking naps with other important tasks such as typing support (see photo above).
Busby & Beauty
Trio & Barnaby
Busby & his piano
Estelle
Sebastian
Norm!
We love veggie hot dogs, but real hot dogs – as in overheated canines – are no fun! Neither are hot cats, hot rabbits, or any other hotter-than-comfortable pets. As temperatures soar and humans take shelter inside air conditioned and fan cooled homes, it’s important to remember that pets can experience heatstroke and other dangerous conditions more quickly than humans. Since they can tell us how sick or painful they are, it’s up to us humans to be on the lookout for certain symptoms, and keep our pets’ summer heat safety in mind. Pools and summertime parties can present special seasonal challenges as well. To help you and your pets keep your cool this summer, we’ve assembled some of our hottest tips for beating the heat below!
Asphalt maybe should be called asp-hot! Did you know when the air temperature is outside is measured at 77 degrees, asphalt in the sun has been measured at 125 degrees, and jump up to 86 or 87 degrees outside, and asphalt can sizzle your skin (or your pet’s paws) at 135 to 143 degrees… and egg can fry in 5 minutes at 131 degrees! Our friend Dr. Pia Salk brought these mind-scorching numbers to our attention in a recent article on her Blog at MarthaStewart.com. Pia points out that while most of us have witnessed or experienced the driveway dance of a human in bare feet, we don’t often think of the effect that burning hot surface has on the bare four paws of our companion animals out for a stroll. She offers up some good advice for judging how safe the ground temperature is for Fido’s feet, which isn’t as simple as it may seem… 
Dogs, cats, and heck all pets can make great co-workers! They generally prefer supervisor roles, befitting their skills, but they can also make great break-time activity leaders, and all around stress relievers. This year, Pet Sitters International’s Take Your Dog To Work Day® is Friday, June 21, 2013. This annual event asks pet lovers to celebrate the humane-canine bond and promote pet adoption (whoo hoo!) by encouraging their employers to support TYDTWDay. Employers are encouraged to open their workplace to employees’ four-legged friends on this one special day too! In case Friday isn’t a good fit for your furry friend (that’s your dog, but could be your boss if she forgot her pet-hair roller), the entire week, June 17-21, has been designated Take Your Pet To Work Week™. Adding to the fun, TYDTWDay is having a photo contest, so be sure to get your camera loaded with fresh batteries to caputre a photo of your four-legged best friend with you at work. Check out their website 
You can’t judge a book by its cover. This phrase is embedded in all of us from an early age, yet as people grow up we often ignore this sound teaching. But sometimes we get great reminders about how true it is… Early in April, Eldad from 
