This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author's own.

Health & Fitness

Being a fur-tographer to help homeless animals!

My experience helping homeless "furbabies"!

Through my volunteer work with Mercy Fund Animal Rescue in Marion, NC, I learned how big of an issue animal homelessness really is. We have small adoption event weekly at our local Tractor Supply Co, where we usually have 10-15 of our 170+ animals, I was concerned because several of our own animals go weeks or months at a time without making an appearance at an event, which lowers their likelihood of being adopted. After noticing this issue, I started researching different ways I could get the animal's photos and information out there. Along with making a video presentation and publishing it to YouTube (link below), I participated in Pics for Pets, a campaign produced by dosomething.org, it was a great opportunity to be able to share our pictures, and all our volunteers where very exited about it! Pics for Pets had a great impact on these animals, along with getting a few hundred shares, we had two adoptions this past week, one of which who claimed she found the picture of her new furbaby online! I cannot thank dosomething.org enough for the amazing opportunity! 

Available animals YouTube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXmkGk7WOCM

Find out what's happening in Fort Braggfor free with the latest updates from Patch.

 

Find us on petfinder.com and adoptme.com!

Find out what's happening in Fort Braggfor free with the latest updates from Patch.

The views expressed in this post are the author's own. Want to post on Patch?

More from Fort Bragg