Every so often, you meet a rescue dog and something just clicks. You realize that, regardless of the life they may have had prior to rescue, this dog is a great dog. A dog that will bring so much joy into someone’s life. A dog that will be fit right in with one lucky family.
This past week, we’ve been busy on social media sharing news about a huge adoption event that was held the first weekend in June: Maddie's® Pet Adoption Days, the biggest free pet adoption event in America. Organizers were projecting about 5,000 pet adoptions at 200 participating shelters and rescues across the country.
Watching recent television coverage of the devastation in Oklahoma has been difficult, even more so as we see lost animals sometimes wandering into the camera view as they search for a home that is no longer there. Professionals, social media, and pet lovers are busily working to reunite pets and pet parents and tend to those animals that were injured in the tornadoes.
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.
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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