Adopt Your Next Pet from Adopt-a-Pet.com

You all know how I encourage the rescue and adoption of our millions of homeless pets. Adopt-a-Pet.com is doing their part to get shelter pets into homes while they wait for people like us to find them on the Adopt-a-Pet.com website and adopt them. Are you thinking a adopting a pet? Consider adopting through Adopt-a-Pet.com, the largest non-profit pet adoption website in the world.

What is Adopt-a-Pet.com
Adopt-a-Pet.com is the world's largest non-profit pet adoption website. We are like an ad agency for shelters and shelter pets. Sadly there are 4 million healthy adoptable companion animals killed in shelters each year due to overcrowding. We do our best to relieve that problem and put pets from shelters in the homes of pet seekers all over the country.

The Adopt-a-Pet.com website makes it easy for anyone with an internet connection to find profiles and pictures of adoptable animals by location, breed, gender, age, size, and color. Over 8,000 shelters posts pets on our website displaying over 125,000 pets available for adoption at any given time. We also help volunteers connect with shelters, and currently host over thousands of people listed in our volunteer database for shelters.

What Makes Adopt-a-Pet.com Unique:
On the Adopt-a-Pet.com website, people can use something called “Search Saver.” This feature will notify users by e-mail when a particular pet of their specifications in available for adoption. For example, I can tell “Search Saver” where I live, and what type of breed I am looking for. When that animal is available, I am notified the next time a pet matching my search is added on Adopt-a-Pet.com.

As of this summer Adopt-a-Pet.com has made it easy for their visitors to find pets and then recommend them to friends and family via Facebook, Twitter and other social applications. They are calling the idea “Social Petworking.” Here is how it works; once you have searched and found a pet in need, on the pet details page simply hover over the button labeled “SHARE,” there you can send the pet details page to any of your friends. For more information visit this page http://www.adoptapet.com/socialpetworking/signup.

In addition to dogs and cats, Adopt-a-Pet.com now features all kinds of pets for adoption, including rabbits, farm animals, ferrets, hamsters and other small animals, horses, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and even fish. This was a major initiative that took many months to research and program into the site, and it is being well-received within the shelter community.

By teaming up with the renowned street-artist Shepard Fairey, who designed the iconic Obama "Hope" image, Adopt-a-Pet.com has available a number of stylish ways to promote pet adoption. Shepard was able to translate his work with Obama to an image that can be used to represent pet adoption support. Merchandise can be found at "http://www.muttslikeme.com"www.muttslikeme.com

Blog
Adopt-a-Pet.com has begun blogging and created a Twitter Page along with a Facebook Page. Their blog is located at http://blog.adoptapet.com. There you can also join their Facebook Group, or follow them on Twitter.

Look for more on my blog about Adopt-a-Pet.com next week, and be sure to visit their blog at http://blog.adoptapet.com.


Posted By:

Dawn Kairns
Author of MAGGIE: the dog who changed my life
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