Petfinder Post: Charities to Choose

Petfinder posts are about the animals, but of course humans raise funds for charitable efforts through Petfinder too. Currently their web site has donation fields for two charities.

The Purple Leash Project will send souvenir purple leads and collars to dogs whose humans contribute money toward adding animal shelter facilities to shelters for victims of domestic violence:

https://www.purina.com/about-purina/purple-leash-project

(If you click on the link and then re-share it Petfinder will assign you a huge messy link so they'll know whom to thank if your fans send them money. Google prefers short tidy links.)

There's also a campaign to raise money to repair animal shelters that were damaged by the hurricane in Florida: 

https://connect.clickandpledge.com/w/Form/

Now for this week's cutest dog pictures. At the time of posting all dogs pictured were up for adoption I looked for dogs who were either black or white, who would look good with a purple leash, and whose breed type was overstocked in their zipcode.

1. Zipcode 10101: Creepers 

His web page: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/creepers-54448802/ny/new-york/eves-sanctuary-animal-rescue-ny679/

The shelter doesn't give an exact weight but they think Creepers and his buddy Jeepers are Chihuahua mixes. These two mini-mutts were tough enough to run with a pack of feral street dogs. They can be adopted together (Jeepers is female, mostly white with some black spots and stray black hairs, build and head shape similar to Creepers'), but the shelter staff think they may function as "emotional crutches reminding them to be shy" and may take longer to bond if adopted together. Despite his grey muzzle Creepers is believed to be young, described as active and "athletic." He is more wary of men than of women, not recommended for families with children, but clingy when he decides he can trust people. He's classified as a "special needs" dog because he seems to have grown up feral, but said to learn quickly.

For those who want to take two, they're small, here's Jeepers...

She's described as "wicked smart," a little more confident than Creepers, too dignified to ask for cuddle time but glad to soak up attention when invited. She's spayed, he's neutered, and both are vaccinated.

Zipcode 20202: Chester from Fairfax 

His web page: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/chester-2-adopt-or-foster-57568298/va/fairfax/mutt-love-rescue-va545/

The shelter staff want to visit your home, but they're looking for foster families, which means some lucky family can take Chester home and get to know him before they pay to keep him. Chester was brought to the shelter as a rescue dog when his humans moved away and left him behind. He's about four years old and was trained and cared for (and neutered) by the family who abandoned him. He's described as friendly and housebroken. 

Zipcode 30303: Angelica from Atlanta 

Her web page: https://www.petfinder.com/dog/angelica-57351448/ga/atlanta/fulton-county-animal-services-ga217/

The trouble with the animal shelters around Atlanta is that they don't have geeky enough people working there. They set up web pages on Petfinder, but then they don't take good pictures or write good stories. Angelica is thought to be a Labrador Retriever mix, very young. Current weight? Reason for being in a shelter? Any social experience to indicate how she'd get along with other pets or people? They don't say. The good thing about the animal shelters around Atlanta is that they don't have a lot of dogs. 

If you are in Atlanta and read this after Angelica has been adopted, a quick look at Petfinder's page for Labs in that area will show that actually they have other dogs who probably look very similar to Angelica in real life. The way they were photographed at odd angles makes one other black Lab look a bit like a seal and one like a tapir, but in real life you'd undoubtedly like the dogs despite their less than winning pictures.