Monday, November 16, 2009

Adopt-a-Pet.com is not your average adoption agency - - its MORE!


Harley's Mission is dedicated in teaching the community about dog adoption and responsible pet care. We were honored when Adopt-a-Pet approached us to feature a guest post on their website. We are delighted to contribute to their great cause, with the hopes that our joint efforts will broaden the awareness and education about the importance behind pet adoption. Adopt-a-Pet.com has provided us with some pertinent information and we want to share. Read below and check out Adopt-a-Pet.com for your pet adoption needs!



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.

Our 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 our website, people can use something we call “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 we have now made it easy for our visitors to find pets and then recommend them to friends and family via Facebook, Twitter and other social applications. We 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 CLICK HERE.

- In addition to dogs and cats, we now feature 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, we have 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.  CLICK HERE


- We have begun blogging and created a Twitter Page along with a Facebook Page. Check out our blog by clicking here
 there you can join our Facebook Group, or follow us on Twitter.


Harley: My beautiful, adopted best friend - - 2009


Blog Highlights:
Adopt-a-Pet.com has recently begun blogging, and every week we publish posts from two separate columns. On Tuesday we blog about pet care tips, and on Fridays we do our best to find heartwarming stories about adopted pets all over the country.  

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