This Saturday, Put Invisible Dogs in the Spotlight!
The “Invisible Dogs” movement is designed to put shelter dogs in the spotlight so they have the best odds at finding forever homes. Our goal is to mobilize your community to get involved and help invisible dogs at your shelter be seen. Best Friends’ inaugural “National Animal Shelter Check-in Day” is Saturday, November 12, 2011.
What’s going to happen?
We're asking you to go to your local shelter and “check-in” using your mobile phone's geolocation app called
foursquare. We even worked with foursquare to add a category for animal shelters. While you're there, take a picture of a dog and share it (please use the #invisibledogs hashtag so your tweet appears on our Twitter Ticker). Depending on the shelter's rules, you could even volunteer by walking a dog or two.
That’s it. Easy, right? All in hopes that these dogs will be seen by the person of their dreams...and get adopted! Read more about it on our
blog.
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ANIMAL SHELTERS - Bring attention to your invisible dogs!
Animal Shelters, by participating in National Animal Shelter Check-in Day, you will receive Best Friends’ support and be involved in a national campaign that brings visitors to your organization and attention to your animals. It’s easy to participate and a great way to increase your exposure. Please take a moment to
view the flyer to get all the details and
download the poster to put up in your shelter!
If you are interested in participating please email your shelter name, location, foursquare location URL, facebook page, and twitter to: claudiap@bestfriends.org
If you need help claiming your animal shelter venue on foursquare,
please go here for a quick "how-to" guide and fill out the form so we can get you set up right away!
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Participating shelters include (but are not limited to):
CALIFORNIA:
Baldwin Park Animal Care Center
Helen Woodward Animal Center
ILLINOIS:
Found Chicago
Winnebago County Animal Services
NEVADA:
Shelter Pet Rescue Network at Courtyard Animal Hospital
NEW JERSEY:
Liberty Humane Society
Mt. Pleasant Animal Shelter
NEW MEXICO:
City of Albuquerque, Animal Welfare Department (3 locations):
1. Animal Welfare Department (Eastside Shelter)
2. Animal Welfare Department (Westside Shelter)
3. Animal Welfare Department (Lucky Paws - Coronado)
Animal Humane NM
Espanola Valley Humane Society
Santa Fe Humane Society and Shelter
NEW YORK:
Pets Alive - Middleton
Pets Alive - Westchester
Sean Casey Animal Rescue
Westchester SPCA
OREGON:
Greenhill Humane Society, SPCA
PENNSYLVANIA:
The Center for Animal Health & Welfare
TEXAS:
Austin Pets Alive!
El Paso Animal Services
SPCA of Texas
UTAH:
Humane Society of Utah
Salt Lake County Animal Services
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RESOURCES
Read our news release about the big day here.
Check out what About Foursquare is saying about Nov. 12th on their blog.
Web button:
New to foursquare? Sign up here and download the app to your iPhone, Android or Blackberry!
