With some creative thinking, parents can help children and teens assist shelter pets. Whether raising money or raising awareness, young pet lovers can help homeless animals in many ways, depending on age and abilities. Here’s a rundown of five easy ways summer vacation can fetch fun and funds for fidos and felines.
None of us are perfect. We all have something about us that’s not exactly “normal.” Sadly, for many pets in shelters, that lack of “perfection” can be a death sentence.
Last week, we planned a big trip to the Texas coast with our dogs Irie and Tiki. Now, if you haven’t seen photos of our rescue girls, you’d think Irie was a Lab mix. The shelter we adopted her from listed her as a Lab mix and, after a DNA test, we learned that she’s Lab, coonhound, and German Shorthaired Pointer.
As pet parents of two mixed breed rescue dogs, we sometimes lament the lack of cute pet products that tout our favorite breed: rescue.
We love writing about rescue and adoption. We write about the topic every week here on Pet360 as well as on our own websites. We share adoptables daily on our social media sites. And with two rescue dogs and four rescue cats, we like to feel that we don’t just talk the talk but we walk the (dog) walk.
Recently we were at a pet event in Texas with our friend Rachel Phelps from PrestonSpeaks.com when her phone rang. It was her husband Brad, back in Kentucky, calling about a rescue dog that needed help—a lot of help.
On some occasions, our new family members came to us, not as shelter adoptions, but as strays. Like unplanned pregnancies, our family grew, not with a purposeful visit to a shelter, but with the arrival of a homeless animal that found itself drawn to our home.
As pet parents to two former shelter dogs, both mixes of mixes, we feel that the word “mutt” carries with it a derogatory undercurrent. Well, there’s a reason for that: the word is actually a shortened form of the word “muttonhead.”
Paris Permenter and John Bigley are a husband-wife team of professional writers. Along with over 2,500 published magazine articles and 28 books, Paris and John are the publishers of DogTipper.com and CatTipper.com. Paris and John live with their dogs and cats in the Texas Hill Country near Austin.
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