• Sneak peek at the new pet page design, coming soon
• Take survey for a chance at a $100 gift card!
• American Pets Alive! Conference
• Promote your Homes for Dogs Adoption Event
• Can Dogs Eat Fruits And Berries?
• PetCoach: Free Veterinary Advice You Can Trust

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Pet page design upgrade coming soon!

More exciting news! You may recall a few months ago we announce that our designers and engineers have been hard at work on improvements to our website’s design and technology. A big and exciting project! We are continuing to gradually roll out the updates, and the next page to get an upgrade is your pet pages – sneak peek in the screenshot above and below! At first glance, you might not notice the changes, as most of them are behind the scenes. Some of the really awesome upgrades is the fonts are bigger, making it easier for people to read what you’ve written about your pets! On Friday, Sept 1st the new design will be visible to a small portion of our site visitors. Once we gather information and make any needed refinements, we’ll make the improved version of the pet pages available to everyone. The new pet page design, just like the new shelter search results and shelter info pages that rolled out earlier this year, will be faster and easier to use on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices too.

See the checkmarks and exclamation points above? That’s one of the “biggest” small but helpful changes to the page design! Now those easy-to-understand graphic bullet points replace the “good with” or “not” text to better highlight those pet details. These were previously formatted in a sentence. Your behind the scenes options remain the same yes, no, or blank aka unknown that you’ve been using all along. If you have any questions or feedback, let us know at helpdesk@adoptapet.com.

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Tell us what you think of our volunteer feature

We really want to know how we can make Adopt-a-Pet.com’s volunteer recruiting feature more useful for you. Please take our quick survey, whether you’ve ever used (or heard about!) our volunteer feature or not. We’ll give three respondents a $100 Petco gift card as our way of saying thanks! Take the survey here: https://www.research.net/r/FG3RJS8

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American Pets Alive! Conference

September 23-25, 2017 in Austin, Texas: The American Pets Alive! Conference provides attendees with leading-edge, revolutionary strategies to save more pet lives — including a workshop presented by Adopt-a-Pet.com CEO and Co-Founder David Meyer. In just three days, attendees will learn what could otherwise take months or years to develop. Whether you want to make a difference or know someone who does, as an attendee, their conference will give you resources to help you make an immediate change. Save your spot today at www.americanpetsalive.org

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Promote your Homes for Dogs Adoption Event

We’re just over a month away from this year’s Homes for Dogs National Adoption Weekend, brought to you by Adopt-a-Pet.com and Coldwell Banker. Adopt-a-Pet.com and Coldwell Banker are promoting pet adoptions events – for dogs, cats, and all types of pets – taking place Saturday September 9th and Sunday September 10th, 2017 so if you haven’t yet signed up for your event to appear in the event search, sign up here now: https://www.research.net/r/SomebodyToLove

If you have signed up, it’s time to start letting people know where to meet your adoptable pets! You can use these two social graphics to share on Facebook, in emails, and anywhere else you promote your adoption events: http://shelterblog.adoptapet.com/2017/08/promote-your-homes-for-dogs-adoption-event/

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Can dogs eat fruits and berries

Adopters and foster volunteers can ask some interesting questions, but have you ever been asked what fruits an adopted or fostered dog can eat safely? Our friends at Purina and two veterinarians, Dr. Marty Becker and Dr. RuthAnn Lobos, provide some eye-opening insights into the most popular summer fruits and the pros and cons of feeding them to dogs here: https://www.purina.com/dogs/dog-health/can-dogs-eat-fruits-and-berries

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PetCoach: Free veterinary advice you can trust

PetCoach brings you and your adopters free advice from certified vets and pet experts anywhere, anytime. Anyone can ask pet questions directly at PetCoach.co. Contact awo@petcoach.co to learn how adopters in your community can use this service to take better care of their pets.
Visit PetCoach click here.

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Welcome!

The entire Adopt-a-Pet.com staff would like to extend a warm welcome to all the new shelter and rescue folks who have joined our Adopt-a-Pet.com family recently. You probably talked to Jill, April, Laurie, or Jennifer already, and we want you to know we are here at helpdesk@adoptapet.com to answer any questions or feedback you may have about how we can make Adopt-a-Pet.com work better for you and your shelter or rescue. You are all animal welfare rockstars working hard to get pets adopted into loving forever homes, and we are here to help you!

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And, of course… We thank the wonderful, pet-loving people at Purina, Petco, the Petco Foundation, and Bayer Animal Health for supporting all of us in our mission and making Adopt-a-Pet.com a free service!

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