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RedandHowling: Musings on Dogs, Cats & Other Bundles of Love.

This handy life-saving book, “For Dog’s Sake!” is by our co-founder, the artist behind Red and Howling.  It’s a goldmine of information that all dog parents need, from how to perform the Heimlich Maneuver on a pet who is choking to understanding the hidden dangers that lurk in our homes. Best of all, purchase the book between now and the end of June and 20% of the author’s proceeds will go directly to helping sick and injured shelter pets through Adopt-a-Pet.com’s Veterinary Care Fund.

Get the book! www.ForDogsSake.Rocks

Can you relate?

RedandHowling: Musings on Dogs, Cats & Other Bundles of Love.

If your dog is like most, its part time profession is begging for table scraps, and when its time for dinner, guess who is always first in line for a plate. Dogs can share a wide variety of foods with you, but their diet pyramid is a lot different than ours. A K9’s diet should be made up of at least at least 90% lean meat. Other foods from groups like vegetables, fruits, and carbs are also okay. To read more about pouch friendly foods continue over at woofreport.com

 

Inspired by Patrick McDonnell’s heartwarming comic strip MUTTS featuring Mooch and Earl, the Mutts Adoption Event – brought to you by the Petco Foundation – celebrates the love that can change the world for pets without a home. And your life just might be changed too! During this national event, thousands of pets will be waiting for you at Petco and Unleashed by Petco stores across the country, waiting for a home… waiting for the love that will change their lives. Who knows—you might find your very own Mooch or Earl and fall in love!

 

Why MUTTS in May? Recently award-winning artist and animal advocate Patrick McDonnell, creator of the MUTTS comic strip, turned a visit to New York City’s public open-admission animal shelter, Animal Care Centers of NYC, into a week’s worth of MUTTS comics called ‘Shelter Stories’. He focused on not just the animals in the shelter, but the selfless volunteers, the incredibly caring staff, and future pet parents that came in looking to fill their heart with love. Patrick captured the essence of love in not only the animal’s eyes, but also in their new pet parents and families hearts.
Patrick’s journey is featured on Shelter Me, an inspiring series that celebrates shelter pets by telling positive and uplifting stories, proudly supported by the Petco Foundation. Check your local PBS station or visit shelterme.tv for airtimes then visit your Petco store to begin your own story.

Cartoonist Patrick McDonnell’s Experience at New York City Animal Shelter Inspires his MUTTS comic strip, “Shelter Stories” from Steven Latham on Vimeo.

 

The Petco Foundation believes love has the power to change everything. How has love changed you? Share your stories on Facebook and Twitter with the hashtag #lovechangeseverything!

 

We are love the amazing things our Adopt-a-Pet.com sponsor Purina does to help homeless pets! Like the $1 Million donated (click to read about it here) at the launch of their new Purina ONE® beyOnd™ brand, and their Pet Welfare Program which donated more than 1,200,000 pounds of food to pets in shelters last year.

Click play below to watch one of the four videos Purina created for the launch of their new campaign!

Story 1 – New Pet Food: Purina ONE® beyOnd™

Thanks to all the pet lovers who entered the petcentric Dog Show by submitting photos of their pets. You helped to raise a generous $8,313 donation to Adopt-a-Pet.com! If you sent in an entry, you raised $1 to help shelter pets find loving homes… hooray for you! And a huge thank-you to the generous folks at Purina petcentric for your continued support of our work, and of homeless pets everywhere! We couldn’t do what we do without you.

We’re so excited about Adopt-a-Pet.com’s new partner site Purina ONE.com! Beginning in a couple of weeks, adoptable pets posted on Adopt-a-Pet.com will be seen by people visiting PurinaONE.com, without any extra effort by the 10,000 shelters and rescue that post their pets on Adopt-a-Pet.com already.

The people at Purina ONE have been committed to supporting shelters and pet adoption for years, and we thank them for helping to get your pets seen and adopted!

If your organization already has  an Adopt-a-Pet.com shelter/rescue account and do not want your pets to be displayed on the PurinaONE.com site, all you have to do is login to your Admin area, visit the “My shelter/rescue info” page and uncheck the box in the “Partners” section. Otherwise, your pets will appear on PurinaONE.com automatically.

If you don’t have a free Adopt-a-Pet.com shelter/rescue account and would like your pets to appear on PurinaOne.com, you can sign up here: http://www.adoptapet.com/signup

This past weekend, at a brand-new event called the Purina Pet Project, the folks at Purina once again showed their enormous commitment to supporting not only homeless animals, but the shelters and rescue organizations that care for them.  I had the pleasure (and it was!) of attending this event, along with Adopt-a-Pet.com’s director of animal shelter outreach, Jennifer Jacobsen.  We were both so impressed with what we saw, and absolutely inspired.

Here’s a little background: every year, Purina employees participate in a day of volunteerism to help St. Louis-area animal shelters, taking part in a variety of projects like assembling dog and cat beds, doing shelter makeovers, and making blankets to keep shelter pets warm .  These projects really make an impact on the animal welfare community in St. Louis.  This year, our friend Caroline Holke at Purina had an amazing, big idea, which began with a simple question: If the employees of Purina could make such a big difference in a single day, how much more could be done if the general public were given the opportunity to volunteer as well?  Caroline’s idea was embraced by her colleagues, and presto! The Purina Pet Project was born.

The event was held on Saturday, October 1st at Purina Farms.  Before the doors opened to the public, we took a look around. More than 30 different projects were waiting to be completed. More than 30 rescue groups and shelters were there with adoptable pets on display.  There were empty troughs waiting to be filled with donated items from a wish list Purina had provided to the public, things that shelters really needs like toys, bleach, and other supplies.  An empty volunteer sign-up sheet sat at a booth dedicated to the biggest project of the year: a complete makeover of the Five Acres Animal Shelter, which was to be completed the following weekend, if enough volunteers could be recruited.  So many opportunities to help…but would anybody show up?

The doors opened, and we got our answer: a resounding YES!  The folks at Purina were really hoping they’d get 1,000 people to come out and help.  Instead, they got about 2,800!  People poured in the door, many carrying items to donate, and all ready and willing to lend a hand.  It was a beautiful thing to behold.  It was especially wonderful to see so many parents and children working together.  Kudos to those parents for teaching their children the spirit of volunteerism (and kudos to the children who taught their parents, of course)!

The results?

15 dog houses were beautifully decorated

200 Kuranda dog beds were assembled

40 Kuranda cat towers were assembled

220 pet blankets were made

600 pet bowls and 550 bandanas were decorated

$2,000 raised from games and raffle tickets –the winner of the 50/50 raffle donated the cash back to the animal shelters

Approximately 20 pets were adopted and MANY other leads were made (most organizations reported receiving at least 4 applications)

12 troughs were heaping with donated items

27 volunteers signed up at the to help with the Five Acres Animal Shelter makeover

Fabulous, in other words.  Thank you, Purina, for caring so much about homeless animals (and the people who take care of them)!

And here are some photos of the event:

We usually cover very serious topics here on our blog, important stuff about helping homeless pets, rescuing dogs, cats and other creatures, ways volunteers and shelters are working hard to save lives… and then… there’s doggie-mail and kittie-mail. Step into the petcentric online gallery here: http://www.petcentric.com/Fun-Games/Doggie-Mail.aspx and you’ll see what we mean! It’s some very silly talking pets that invite you to customize your online message by either choosing one of the three dogs or three cats, or making it even more silly fun, uploading your dog or cat from your computer or Facebook.  Then you choose a painting from the gallery… well, I don’t want to give all the fun away! If you’re looking for a little diversion in your day, or a unique and creative way to add your voice to your pet’s photos and send out a birthday or other greeting to your friends or post a very important message on your Facebook page!

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