Two days ago, I did up a little post called A bit of good news about McG and Cape Breton Puppies ..... where I was (yet again ) nagging about the fact that the Cape Breton SPCA was still only posting a few of its younger pets. So you can imagine how pleasantly suprised when I was doing site updates today to find that there were nine new adult dogs listed on their Petfinder page: Chex, Teddy B , Devlin, Houche, Warf, Bonett , Crayola, Mommacita, MAMA and one senior dog - Jensen is pictured here and they figure he is either 11 or 12. This is not the time to quibble about the fact that they should have given him a special needs tag because they have also said that Jensen is going blind. Its just pretty amazing that he's listed at all.
Every time I look at the news these days it seems like more NS jobs are vanishing into thin air. Although we've been taking quite a hit here in the Valley between ACA and Michelin, I think that Cape Breton can still claim the lion's share of the job losses. If adopters were thin on the ground in Cape Breton before, I imagine they're now as scarce as the proverbial hen's teeth.
Happily adoptions are proceeding at a merry old pace for the Metro Shelter . How do I know this? Even without the petfinder happy tails option, I see it almost daily when I do the site updates for the homeless pet project. Why is this happening? Because the society made a deliberate decision to pick a better path .... and the staff at Metro worked like the dickens to see the changes through. And of course, no matter where all these new adopters actually live, clearly Metro's central location also plays a part.
Success breeds success may be a cliche, but it is a still a very true thing. Everyone who adopts from Metro and has a great experience becomes an adoption 'recruiter". Their friends and family get to see the pawsitive side of pet adoption firsthand.
Now on the Cape Breton SPCA Petfinder page, they state that they do not ship animals. What if people could arrange to sign the adoption agreement and pick up their new best friend from the CB Branch at the Metro Shelter?
Success doesn't just breed adoption success after all. Now that the society has clearly demonstrated it is embarking on a new path, it might be easier to recruit a few volunteer drivers willing to transfer pets from the CB Branch to the Metro Shelter.
In a sense this is just a twist on the concept of mobile adoptions .... in a way that would open up all kinds of lifesaving possibilities. First and foremost it would save lives of course. Secondly, it would boost the adoption rate for the Cape Breton Branch .....which is what we have all been nagging/ranting about. And last but very definitely not least, it just might alter the current mindset that cannot see past any solution other than killing so many healthy, treatable and adoptable pets.
What a wonderful live saving tool that could be in the society's arsenal, hmmm?
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