Shelter’s Edge

With the ASPCA $100K Challenge wrapping up its second week, we’re starting to see some strategizing going on. Programs rolled out, volunteers deployed, alliances made…lives saved! You can find out what our competitors are up to on the Save More Lives Community and check here each week for the post-game wrap-up.

When we said it was game on, we meant it…literally. Last week Maui Humane Society assembled a team of 10 dogs available for adoption and hightailed it over to Wailuku for Pet Night at the Na Koa Ikaika Maui baseball game. “The pups received cheers, kisses and lots of belly rubs from all in attendance,” reported the Puunene, HI, agency, “and 50 percent of the ticket sales that night were donated by the team to MHS!” We’ve got the play-by-play:

And over at the SPCA Serving Erie County, six of the Tonawanda, NY, shelter’s finest community ambassadors spent their afternoon at the Buffalo Bisons game talking up the kittens for adoption, answering questions, collecting donations and helping people take their spins on the Wheel of FURtune: Talk about putting on your game face! “We want our animals to look their best, and pet photography is tricky,” blogged Louisiana SPCA, “so for this Challenge, we brought in the big guns.” Three local professional photographers have donated their services to the New Orleans agency, and have been busy clicking away to capture the animals outside, inside, running, playing and just being themselves. Proof of their awwww-inspiring work:We’re also totally inspired by Stanwood, WA-based N.O.A.H. Animal Adoption & Spay/Neuter Center, who reports that their foster program, officially kicked off on May 1, is kicking major butt. “We had set a goal for ourselves of saving 900 animals in 1 year,” reported one of the program’s coordinators, “and I remember hearing that number and thinking, ‘That’s a lot of animals! I don’t know if we can do it.’ Here it is, only 3 ½ months later, and we are—at more than 430—almost halfway to that goal.” Score! And extra points go to the several foster families who take in 2-3 litters of kittens at a time!We wanna end this one with some more photos, courtesy of Richmond Animal Care & Control.

“Just check out the happy faces of recently adopted RACC cats and dogs,” they blogged. “We know…made you smile, too!”

Tags: $100K Challenge, Keeping Up with the Contestants, Louisiana SPCA, Maui Humane Society, NOAH Animal Adoption & Spay/Neuter Center, Richmond Animal Care & Control, Save More Lives Community, SPCA Serving Erie County

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