Purina Helps Us Donate To Our Local Dog Shelter!

We've had the good fortune to work with Purina on several occasions and were honored to help spread the good word about bonding with your dog—whether through engaging your dog's natural instincts with a rousing game of fetch, or simply taking long walks with your favorite canine by your side. As part of our work with Purina, we received coupons for 10 free bags of Purina One SmartBlend or Beyond formula dry dog food, and decided to donate that much-needed food to our local shelter.

Parental Unit finally used the coupons to purchase the food and took the drive to the Franklin County Dog Shelter to deliver it just before the new year. We're happy to say that the shelter was bustling with potential adopters: the staff barely had time to pose for a picture!

                    But this lovely volunteer helped us out! 

A hearty thank you to our friends at Purina for your generous gift of the coupons—those 10 coupons totalled about 120 pounds of  dog food that will go directly to feed shelter dogs in much need of high quality, nutritious food. Kudos to Purina for giving us this opportunity!

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A Multi-Talented Dog: Next Stop Broadway!

If this video doesn't make your Saturday, we don't know what will. We were waiting for this pooch to put on his dancin' shoes and head for the bright lights of Broadway! Can your dog play the piano and sing at the same time? 

Stay tuned tomorrow for something a lot more serious, but very important for those who care about what's going on behind the scenes in their community animal shelters.

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Busting Through Shelter Dog Myths—#2

     Shelter pooch looking lonely...Photo courtesy of DogTime Media

W've been remiss in posting in our series about the myths surrounding shelter dogs, and the best ways to counter these myths in our conversations with friends and family. But our friends at DogTime Media have not—they've just posted their fourth and last shelter dog myth: "Animal Shelters Are Too Depressing", along with wonderful tips to both dispell and avoid the problems that can be associated with some shelters. This one really hits home with Parental Unit because she, too, thought shelters were just too darn depressing to even visit. In her search for my predecessor, the Wire Fox terrier, Carson, she first went to her local shelter. At the time, the Franklin County Shelter was pretty dank: she remembers rolling up her jeans so the bottoms wouldn't get coated with the urine that was running out of the floor units that housed  the larger dogs-and talk about the smell! 

Even when she adopted yours truly, our county shelter was still in the same facility, and not exactly clean, although better supervised. Now, our county shelter is a brand new, multi-million dollar facility, and while it's far from perfect regarding numbers of adoptions, it is indeed a very pleasant place to visit.

DogTime media has put together some tips for navigating a shelter and a few ideas for finding your new pet at other adoption locations, like fairs, foster homes and websites like Petfinder.com. We have something called "Mingle with our Mutts" that takes place every other Sunday on the shelter grounds, where many local rescues and foster parents bring their pooches for adoption-it's a great idea and a fun time, even if you're not looking for a new furry family member.

We hope you find these pet shelter "myth busters" helpful, and pass them along to your friends and family.

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BlogPaws Wordless Wednesday Pet Blogger Hop!

Today's "theme" over at BlogPaws appropriately continues with Adopt-A-Dog Month-check out their handsome, featured adoptable pooch!

Of course, no talk of adopting dogs would be complete without  showing you all (yet again), the very first picture that Parental Unit took on my first day in my forever home...

And we thought it would be a good idea, in tandem with BlogPaws, to feature one adoptable pooch from the same shelter that hosted me for a few nights: FranklinCountyDogs.com

Meet sweet Abby, a Lab/Shepherd mix who has lots of energy and is patiently waiting in foster care for that perfect home! But remember: Every dog that gets adopted from foster care makes room for another dog to be fostered... (No, Abby hasn't passed away, it just looks that way!)

Now, let's return to the BlogPaws Wordless Wednesday Pet Blogger Hop! Join up for fun and frivolity galore!
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