Adopt-a-Pet.com

I think she means, uh, Blue Ball.

Uh, anyone in the Blue Ball PA area next Monday between 6:02 PM and 7:11 PM, I'll be at the Blue Ball Barbecue and Adopt-a-Pet event.

Stop by for some comedy and a hot dog.

I'm a homosexual who can't get enough jizz in his throat.

So providing rehoming resources is such a huge one to me.

I know of a couple shelters that have, like, a list of resources like Home to Home, and Adopt a Pet has it, and different resources, and having those ready to give to people who are struggling and feel they must surrender their animal.

Having those available, maybe pinned on your Facebook and in a paper version that you can hand out, like a PDF that you can hand out or email- That would be super helpful.

Providing a list of rescues.

Don't buy your animal.

But if the, if, if you really are concerned about the personality, et cetera, I say find a rescue that you've either seen around that you trust, or even go on petfinder.com or go on Adopt a Pet, I think it's adopta pet.com. Find a puppy or a dog who is living with a foster.

That's gonna be your best bet because fosters know everything about that personality for that particular dog.

They're gonna tell you their quirks.

And like I just said, with specific breeds or specific ages, all those dogs are online.

I promise you that.

Petfinder, Adopt a Pet.

All you have to do, just put in a Google search, pup rescue or golden retriever rescue, or fill in the blank rescue.

But eventually it's going to bite them and they're going to lose revenue if their product sucks or if their service sucks.

In the nonprofit space, you're fundamentally, not always, because I want to talk about the business model of Guardian, and this was true with Adopt-a-Pet too.

We were making money not from donations, from creating actual value in another way.

But in most nonprofits, you're... you are getting paid by donors.

So the aha moment was, okay, how do we step back, ask ourself the what if question, what if we could create a coalition of like-minded animal welfare organizations to come together and provide thought leadership, resources, toolkits, tools, webinars, office hours to drive fostering.

And what would be the one degree shift that we would make? What if we could also, that will shift, get a couple of our coalition members to provide grant funding for this? So in the first year, we had Maddie's Fund, Pedigree Foundation, and Adopt-A-Pet.

We had $120,000 offered in grant funding.

We unveiled it at Animal Care Expo in Vegas.