A Michael Broad Blog
This post was inspired by ex-shelter cat ‘Fishtopher’ who was a long-term resident at the Homeward Bound Pet Adoption Center in Blackwood, New Jersey, USA. The picture got him out of there. Not that it is a bad place. But it is shelter and shelters are not great places for cats or dogs. Too …
This video is genuinely entertaining. It is very impressive. We have to be impressed with both the trainer or trainers of these cats and dogs and the animals themselves. I’m told that they are rescued animals and, yes, the trainers are incredible. The show encourages folks to consider adopting rescue animals. There is an …
This is an excellent idea, which has proved successful in a previous promotional campaign in which local firefighters posed for pictures with shelter dogs in fire stations across Waco, Texas. The same idea works well with police officers. The Humane Society of Central Texas is bursting at the seams so imaginative promotions are welcome …
The modern imagine obsessed society driven by social media platforms such as Instagram (owned by Facebook) has had a negative impact on the adoption of companion animals, in one way. It is worth adding, however, that there are positive aspects to social media in the area of companion animal adoption so it is not …
This is fresh off the FB press. They say Elvis doesn’t mind his condition. I hope they are correct. We don’t know for sure and it looks very uncomfortable. They have called him the dancing cat and added music. Personally and without wishing to be a killjoy, I don’t like that. Without anthropomorphising the …
I never imagined it. I thought that volunteers and staff workers at animal shelters chose potential adopters wisely but straightforwardly. I thought they ticked all the boxes and just got on with the job. Apparently this is not the case. Vera Lawlor writing on the care2.com website states that she has heard from numerous …
This is definitely a first. I have never seen anything like it. And it is very nice. A furniture store, Furniture Village, in Preston, Lancashire, England has agreed to place cut out photos of named rescue cats on their furniture as seen in the pictures below to promote adoptions. A spokesperson said that it …
