If you're on Facebook, you know that occasionally you will get a message saying "post this as your status" or "change your profile picture" for a day for a special event.
For Petfinder.com, the largest online database of adoptable pets, that special event will come March 15, when it celebrates its 15th birthday by proposing to Adopt the Internet, with the help of animal lovers.
A note from Petfinder Press says that people will be asked to support adoptable pets by adding a special badge to their web sites, by tweeting their contacts, by adding an adoptable Petfinder pet to their Facebook pages, or by taking a pledge to spread the word to at least one contact about pet adoption.
Petfinder features more than 320,000 adoptable pets at any given time and represents over 13,000 animal welfare organizations -- including some right here in Manatee County. Since Petfinder's creation in 1996, the euthanasia rate has gone from more than 16 million adoptable pets per year to less that four million. This year, the web site hopes to facilitate over 2.5 million adoptions.
For more information on how to help, visit www.petfinder.com/adopttheinternet.
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