For The Sake Of Animals
While Bo was perusing Facebook, the boy gets around, he came across For The Sake Of Animals. It isn’t a shelter or rescue in the traditional sense, rather the founder uses social networking as a way to help save dogs who are going to die in shelters.
I created this channel on YouTube to save as many animals lives in overcrowded shelters across the country as I can through making these videos and uploading them here on YouTube. Public announcements if you will.
If you can’t see the video click here.
It actually started as an experiment. One day I got an email that had thumbnail pictures of about 33 dogs in a shelter in Ohio off their petfinder site. All were in danger of death due to available space at the shelter. After looking at the email I decided this was no way to feature these animals.
See I have over twenty years in sales and marketing. Using what I know I created my first video for this channel show casing these 33 dogs back on April 27, 2009. Their last day was suppose to be April 29, 2009. I called the shelter for an update and was pleasantly surprised to learn how far and wide the videos reached and that people were calling the shelter about their video they didn’t even know they had offering donations, rescue and even some private public adoptions. The video was a success. With less then two full days before the dogs would be put to sleep the shelter had received enough interest that NO ONE was put down this week. This has continued for the past four weeks at this shelter. All total in the first two weeks the shelter moved forty-eight dogs from death row. To date it has been four weeks and 56 dogs are rescued, adopted or reclaimed.
For almost two years now I have been trying to help animals in high kill shelters across the country by networking with rescues and shelters. I occasionally volunteer to transport as well moving animals out of areas where adoptions just rarely happen.
I finally decided since shelters are overcrowded and mostly underfunded and rescue groups are in the same shoes that it was time to bring the problem back to the public where it originates.
I just know there has got to be more animal lovers out there than the people I have met these past two years. I am hoping by bringing the pictures of these animals to the public, since many tell me they can’t bear to even walk through a shelter and this included people I’ve met who are rescuers, that more animals will get adopted and out of high kill shelters where many are put to death by gassing or heartsick for the crime of Just Being Born.
Times have changed, social networking is now a popular way to spread your message or get the word out about a cause. It’s been working For The Sake Of Animals and I want to help them by doing my part and sharing their message with you. Won’t you do the same?
Great work!!! I work at a no kill shelter but we try and find homes for as many as we can.
Oh my gosh, I have not been on the blogs much in the past almost three weeks because of phone and net problems but looked at this post tonight. What a wonderful story and idea this is! How wonderful that so many great pets have been saved from it! The power of social networking is really amazing that is for sure!
Amazing!!!!!! How do I find these videos to use in our shelter if it is OK…….
awesome, awesome job! i commend you to the highest possible star. i use to work at a no-kill shelter and just couldnt do the drive anymore (gas prices at the time). i miss the job and all the animals i came in contact with and had the opportunity to save and move forward. that feeling is unlike any other and cannot be described.
thank you so much for helping to get the word
out-especially in the manor that you do. i will be honored to forward your work!!!
thank you again-from all the lucky souls and even those who may not be saved, you are at least trying.
Congratulations on a great job and for your commitment.
This is great! Your very special to help these poor souls!
I have wanted to do an animal rescue my whole life.This video made me cry :’( I thought of the dogs in this video and I just could not help but cry, we have very high-kill animal shelter here.I was thinking of how to help the dogs and I thought of it.You can foster dogs from not getting killed in the shelters.
I can adopt a dog and save another life.
I can do my own animal rescue and treat the dogs like they have a new home.
I can donate to the shelters and rescues the most there in need of is crates, crates will save another animals life, when another animal comes to the shelter and they have no room where will the other dog go? He will be put down, but one crate or 100 crates, it does not matter how many crates you donate, it matters saving the lifes of animals.
I thought of another way to save animals, if you see stray dogs or cats on the streets (behind buliding or living somewhere nasty) Then pick them up and take them to your house.You can also give the dogs food, water, treats and much more.If you see an abandoned house or building with lots of dogs or just a few dogs or if it is just one dog.Put the food and water out.Please this is the way to save animals.
This is absolutely dead on! I have finially found a group willing to invest energy to develop this idea which I also had based on my success on using moving to show case “difficult to adopt dogs” that do not show well in shelters or at adoptathons!
By using the oneonemedia.com (I also bought Pinnicle Studio) I was able to put together stories and show cases.
Now I want to build teams supporting adoptable dogs being fostered!
I think this is beyond awesome! It’s about time. When I think of how many animals die every month in shelters, because people refuse to spay/neuter their pets, it makes me want to just cry. Keep up the good work. If there were more people in this world willing to do what you are doing, less animals would be dying in shelters, or lonely and scared on the streets because they were abandoned.
This is GREAT! Exactly what I have been working on for some time now. Many times it is just saving one animal at a time due to ignorant humans that think of these wonderful creatures as things rather than breathing forces of life. Animals is what woke me up and turned to into mush. Without them I am nothing at all.
Kudos!