Senior Pet Project (www.SeniorPetProject.org) needs your help! As members of iGive, Senior Pet Project earns donations when our friends sign up and install the iGive button, which activates when you shop at a participating online retailer! It doesn't cost you anything to use iGive, and you just shop online as you normally would. Just click the iGive button to make sure it is active when you shop. The best part is that Senior Pet Project earns a percentage of every online purchase you make from participating online retailers! It's so easy, and it's FREE for you to use, however it earns crucial donations for our cause. Here is the link to sign up: http://www.igive.com/4oG4ig7
Each "new to iGive" member who joins under Senior Pet Project with this link: ~ http://www.igive.com/4oG4ig7 ~ during October 2014 and tries the iGive Button beginning within a week of joining, and continues to try the Button through 1/15/15 will earn a $5 bonus for his or her chosen cause. The member who successfully invites and signs-up the greatest number of "new to iGive" members between September 30, 2014 and midnight (Chicago time) October 31, 2014 will win $1,000 for his or her cause. The second and third place members will each win $500 for their cause. The new member must try the iGive Button and it must be "phoning home" properly to be considered "in use" and active through 1/15/15 to be counted.
Here is Senior Pet Project's dedicated link for you to sign up with! Every donation is a blessing for us, so please . . . . won't you sign up and help us through iGive, and share with your friends and family?! Senior pets everywhere are in need. Thank you in advance.
http://www.igive.com/4oG4ig7
Here at The Gifted Pet, we truly adore the seniors, and we want to challenge you to look behind the fluffy cuteness of a new puppy or kitten and see the beauty that older pets have to offer! Here are our top 10 reasons to adopt a senior dog (also be sure to check out our top 10 reasons to adopt a senior cat). For tips on caring for your older pet, ask us about Senior Pet Care 101.
Top 10 Reasons to Adopt a Senior Dog:
1. Older dogs are house-trained. You won’t have to go through the difficult stage(s) of teaching a puppy house manners and mopping / cleaning up after accidents.
2. Older dogs are not teething puppies, and won’t chew your shoes and furniture while growing up.
3. Older dogs can focus well because they have mellowed. Therefore, they learn quickly.
4. Older dogs have learned what “no” means. If they had not learned it, they would not have gotten to be “older” dogs.
5. Older dogs settle in easily, because they have learned what it takes to get along with others and become part of a pack.
6. Older dogs are good at giving love, once they get into their new, loving home. They are grateful for the second chance they have been given.
7. What You See Is What You Get: Unlike puppies, older dogs have grown into their shape and personality. Puppies can grow up to be quite different from what they seemed at first.
8. Older dogs are instant companions ~ ready for hiking, car trips, and other things you like to do.
9. Older dogs leave you time for yourself because they don’t make the kinds of demands on your time and attention that puppies and young dogs do.
10. Older dogs let you get a good night’s sleep because they’re accustomed to human schedules and don’t generally need nighttime feedings, comforting, or bathroom breaks.
Choosing to adopt a senior dog is a life saving choice, but don’t adopt one because you feel bad . . . . adopt one because they’re easy going, instant companions. When senior dogs are surrendered it may be due to a life altering change and is a last resort, however we are finding that lately this is not always the case. An owner’s ill health, the birth of a child, allergies, senior pet illness, an unforeseen move or financial change; the reasons (or excuses) are many. Senior dogs that end up in shelters are good dogs with no place else to go. No senior pet deserves to spend the last years of their life in a noisy, scary shelter. By choosing to adopt a senior dog you’re giving him, or her, a second chance at life. ♥
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