Like animal shelters throughout the nation, one rescue in Florida is making an attempt new strategies to get one in all its long-term residents adopted.
Raven, a black pit bull, is already stacked towards the chances. For starters, her breed pushes away potential adopters. About 15 to twenty % of dogs in shelters are pit bulls, PolitiFact reported. Pit bulls take 3 times as lengthy to get adopted as different canine breeds. Then you combine in individuals’s superstition and the dangerous luck related to black cats or dogs and Raven was not dealt a good hand.
The Cape Coral Animal Shelter in Florida has been making an attempt to get the phrase out about Raven, pulling out all of the stops in hopes that her endlessly household would come ahead. She has been residing within the shelter for greater than 484 days.
“We have spent the previous couple of weekends placing her poster on a whole bunch of pizza packing containers and nonetheless no appointments have been made,” shelter volunteer Jennifer Miller informed Newsweek through e mail.
Jennifer Miller/Cape Coral Animal Shelter
Miller mentioned Raven is the “sweetest” canine and he or she loves individuals and children. Aside from her breed, Miller thinks Raven’s excessive vitality and the very fact she does not like different dogs are holding her again from being adopted.
Raven isn’t any stranger to zoomies, which is why the animal shelter is hoping her future home has a fenced yard so she will be able to launch all her vitality. But she’s not all vitality, the shelter wrote in her profile. She’s a “grasp cuddler” with no drawback snuggling together with her people on the sofa.
Miller shared that Raven loves walking round together with her toys. She’s additionally good with instructions.
“The dogs at this shelter are so liked and walked a number of instances a day,” Miller mentioned. “There is nothing we cannot do for them.”
U.S. Shelter Numbers
Each 12 months, 6.3 million pets enter U.S. shelters, which is a mean of 17,260 a day, in keeping with the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The variety of dogs and cats taken in by pet shelters hit 46,807 throughout January 2023, a rise of 1,744 in contrast with January 2022, the 24Pet Shelter Watch Report discovered. About 920,000 surrendered animals are euthanized yearly. Shelters are striving to reduce euthanasia charges by selling adoption campaigns, spaying and neutering packages, and conduct rehabilitation.
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