USA Today has been running a column called “Pet Talk” that I sometimes read and sometimes skip, depending on the subject matter. Yesterday they ran a story about how Petfinder.com is making a push to highlight some “less adoptable” animals.
“Adopt a Less Adoptable Pet Day” sounds lame, but is in the best spirit. Here’s a statistic for you:
“A Petfinder survey, in fact, found that 96% of responding shelters and rescues said they have at least one, sometimes many adoptable pets for which they're having extreme difficulty finding homes; 43% said some have been there for one year or more.”
So. True.
Once upon a time, in this very blog, I made a point to write about the different adoptable birds at the Refuge. I am going to start making the effort again.
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- I am an HR professional, perennial student, and volunteer. I read all sorts of articles on personal finance and also the travel section and plenty of books and I will tell you all about them. I still believe "if you want to get something done, you ask the busiest person". I live in Glenview, IL.
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Where I volunteer, they have a lot of these sort of hard-luck pets who take forever to get adopted. They just started doing a special on cats 2 and older, which might help a little bit, but since it's kitten season, not helping that much.
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