Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Foster a Lonely Pet for the Holidays


On November 29, Petfinder.com is kicking off the first-of-its-kind Foster A Lonely Pet For the Holidays program in partnership with the Hallmark Hall of Fame Movie, A Dog Named Christmas, based on Greg Kincaid’s popular novel. Airing Sunday, November 29 on CBS, the movie tells the tale of a developmentally challenged young man with a penchant for caring for animals in need, who sets out to convince his family — and their whole rural community — to participate in a local shelter's inaugural "Adopt a Dog for Christmas Program."
 
Inspired by the book and movie, Petfinder.com is working with its network of 13,000 shelters and rescue groups across North America to give families the opportunity to welcome an adoptable pet into their home for the holiday season, ideally from Christmas Eve until New Year’s Day. Interested foster-parents-to-be can click here to find the participating shelters near them. In the Seattle area alone, participating shelters include the Seattle Animal Shelter, Seattle Purebred Dog Rescue and BullsEye Dog Rescue.  
 
Not only will you be providing homeless animals with a loving home during the holidays, but you will also be giving shelter volunteers and staff a well-deserved break. Now that's the howliday spirit!

2 comments:

beecham said...

another awesome pet competition:
Basically, my dog insurance provide petpalsdirect. http://www.petpalsdirect.co.uk is givin away free 5th generation ipods (8gb ipods) to pet owners simply by uploading pictures of their pet dogs, cats etc onto their facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/petinsuranceuk
you need to add their facebook page as a fan first, obviously. check it out! the first draw's already done and the next one is just before christmas.

Carrie Nicole said...

This is great!! I volunteer out at Pasado's and we're doing something like this internally. We are trying to get our volunteers/staff to sign up to take a dog home for 5 days over Christmas, hoping all 18 of our dogs will be in homes that weekend!