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Adopt a Senior Pet This November! November is National Adopt a Senior Pet Month! If you've been thinking about getting a pet, consider adopting a fully-mature dog or cat. The need is great, because the chances of an older animal getting adopted are much less than those of a puppy or kitten, but there are advantages to to adopters, too. Mature pets are calmer, less destructive, and with a little life experience, often very grateful for a loving home. You know what you're getting into, since older pets have a personality that animal shelter staff will be glad to tell you about. And it will make you feel good.In addition, if you adopt a dog or cat over five years of age between November first and 30th, you could get a reimbursement of up to $200 in adoption fees from Stella & Chewy's pet food company, plus a $40 coupon for pet food. You'll need to fill out an application form and submit adoption cost receipts, and be one of the first 500 people to apply. That would be just the icing on the cake in addition to finding your new best friend. -via Mental Floss (Image credit: Bijonse) #adoption #shelter #seniordog #seniorcat #November

They All Got New Homes But FernThe Bloomfield Animal Shelter in New Jersey held a public cat adoption event on October 16 at the local civic center. It was a smashing success, with 18 out of 21 cats and kittens going to permanent homes. However, there was one cat who was left feeling like the last kid to be picked for a sports team. Fern, a two-year-old cat, was very shy at her first public event, and was returned to the shelter.Fern was the only adult cat not adopted at yesterday’s Adoption Event. This poor girl put on her bravest face at her first event and watched all the others go home. We know she’s a bit more reserved than other young cats her age, but we’d like to think she’s waiting to feel secure and loved in her very own Furever Home before showing her true personality.Poor kitty. But then two days after the word went out, the shelter updated the Facebook post to tell us they are reviewing multiple applications to adopt Fern! Never underestimate the power of social media. -via Fark(Image credit: The Bloomfield Animal Shelter NJ) #cat #shelter #adoption

The Kitty Cat Airlift that May Save 155 LivesOne of the problems with animal shelters is that one shelter may be so overloaded with unwanted pets that they have to resort to euthanasia, while another shelter a few states away has plenty of room and a high demand for adoptable pets. People have stepped in to solve that problem. August is the month for the return of Clear the Shelters, an annual program sponsored by NBCUniversal and Telemundo that promotes pet adoption with the goal of emptying animal shelters and raising funds to help future residents. As part of the project, several charity groups collaborated to arrange a chartered flight that transported 155 shelter cats from the east coast of Florida, where shelters are overrun, to Massachusetts, where the cats were welcomed by volunteers from several shelters that have room for them. The "highly-adoptable" cats flown to Massachusetts will make room in Florida for more animals who need shelter. Another airlift is scheduled for August 30, which will evacuate dogs from New Orleans to shelters in New Jersey. So far, Clear the Shelters has rescued an estimates 700,000 animals over eight years. -via Fark(Image credit: Greater Good Charities)#Cat #shelter #animalshelter #cleartheshelters #petadoption

Second Graders Wrote Letters From Shelter Dogs' Perspectives to Get Them AdoptedElementary students used their talents to get needy animals adopted and work on their persuasive writing skills. They wrote really wholesome letters and drew beautiful artwork promoting shelter animals.The second-graders at St. Michael's Episcopal School in Richmond, Virginia, created posters for potential cat and dog "parents" from the perspectives of the animals themselves.

Tour a Shelter for Rescued AlligatorsSome people try to make house pets out of alligators. It can be fun when they're tiny, but eventually they grow several feet long, which is not sustainable for most households. Hand-raised alligators can't fend for themselves in the wild, so what's to become of them?