Has seeing an animal in need on Pinterest made you jump to action?
Hi everyone! I've thought about it a few times, especially with so many pinterest boards dedicated to animals, animal adoption, animal rescue, petitions, donations, etc. I wanted to know how effective are these boards. Has anyone ever adopted or fostered an animal that they saw on a pinterest board? Or have they sprang into action because of animal they saw or story they read on pinterest? For myself, I remember seeing some Urgent Pets on Death Row Cats in the NYC Animal Care & Control shelters. Knowing only very little of it, I started to delve into this world more, and learn more about this organization (Urgent) and how they try to help animals who are put on death row because there is no space in the shelter. Of course, the shelter states that they only euthanize pets who have a serious illness or severe behavioral issues. And there is a whole lot of discussion regarding necessary reform. Alas, I digress...
So, has seeing any of these animals on Pinterest helped spring you to action, or have you adopted or fostered any that you initially saw on pinterest? Or do you know someone who has helped an animal because they saw it on Pinterest? I am curious to know.
The reason I would like to do this informal poll is to know the effectiveness of sharing on Pinterest vs. Facebook groups, and also to figure out where efforts should be concentrated. I'm just a person who wants to help save the lives of innocent cats =^..^=
You can comment or answer the poll. I'll try to collect as much as I can, but given the amount of traffic my little blog gets, I doubt it will be much :p
Thanks,
meowser
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| Hermione, formerly "Redz", pulled from Brooklyn AC&C with the help of a rescue group, . |
Networking across many outlets helps! Anything that gets the animals seen may touch that one person that sees a picture and bio of an animal in need enough to take action to donate, adopt, foster or contact a rescue to help get that animal out and to safety.
ReplyDeleteI agree, but haven't seen much of organizations or groups really sharing on pinterest. The majority is just people who want to save a life. My biggest gripe is the fact that so many groups use facebook, meanwhile you cannot pin from facebook. This creates either links that just go to a photo, or broken links as people try to work around the issue. It's also very time consuming, given the quantity of animals that we share. It's one of the biggest reasons I want to be able to pin from facebook. I would also like to see more groups taking advantage of pinterest and other social media outlets.
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking the time to comment! =^.^=
Well, you know my answer about my jumping into action.
ReplyDeleteI believe the more networks are covered with this info the more chances for life these poor little thing have. Surprised that there is so difficult to just pin fb page though. Hope they will improve this feature... Thinking if it's possible to create like buffer site (or blog) to which one can share a fb page and then pin it....
I was thinking that too (creating a sort of middle-man site). The group that does Urgent Cats/Dogs has a website, which pulls the photo and descriptions from facebook, but I can't pin those either, because it's through some wordpress plugin. Any ideas?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I contacted pinterest asking why they don't allow pins from fb. Of course they didn't respond. So frustrating.