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Animal Adoption Center Encourages People To Adopt Adult Pets With 16 Hilarious Posters
Nobody needs too much convincing to take home a fuzzy puppy, with those big wide eyes, and a body the size of your foot. But after the initial cuteness coma, new owners discover there is a lot of work and time that goes into training these baby animals. Adult dogs (7+ years), unlike pups, have a harder time finding a home with only a 25% adoption rate - so one animal rescue organization came up with a genius marketing strategy to show people what these mature pets have to offer.
The Animal Protection Association of St. Louis launched the Grown-Ass Adult PR campaign to promote the benefits of adopting a pet that's grown out of his baby phase. In a series of funny posters and the hashtags #grownassadult and #adoptadult, the organization pointed out that while puppies are cute - grown-ass adult dogs know not to pee on your carpet. Scroll down below to check out their hilariously creative posters.
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"The Animal Protective Association of Missouri is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing people and pets together, advancing humane education and creating programs beneficial to the human/animal bond." Each pet adopted at the APA is spayed/neutered, microchipped and fully vaccinated. They also come with 14-day wellness coverage, a leash/collar and a starter bag of Purina premium dog food.
Such a gorgeous bluenose! He/she reminds me of Bruno, my (former bait dog) gargoyle I adopted when he was 11. He was repeatedly returned because, get this, he snored. SNORED!!! He developed seizures at 14 and by 16 they were uncontrollable with meds. He was the sweetest good boy in the world, loved everyone (unless you were two dogs playing with a tug toy, he couldn't abide that), was the master at the footpin-leglean, thought he was 10lbs, thought all skunks were his friend, and started a ghost dog legend at a cemetery. I miss him so much. I only got 5 years with him, but they were the best 5 years.
Totally agree - leave their tails on and their ears whole. Humans have messed animals up enough with crappy breeding.
Load More Replies...I am against the ear and tail cropping, but sometimes it is a medical need, not cosmetic. Bully breeds have a (small) potential to get their tails and/or ears infected, tails more often. This happens because due to inbreeding in the 70's/80's the tails ended up being weak and easily fractured. The fracture can go unnoticed and get infected. The ears were really prone to infections and cutting them opened the ears more to the air to dry them out. ~~~~~~~~~~ It went from being a medical preventative/ need to a damn fashion statement.
Though puppies and kittens are so cute, there’s nothing like that magical age, usually around three years old, when they start to mellow. Ahhhhh, peace.
Why were none of thees dogs featured beagles? Because beagles behave, LOL! J/K! I know mine is 100% pure clown, but he's a good boy. Has never lifted his leg in my house, or my mom's, he's never torn up the sofa pillows, he has never had an accident in the house, and he's friendly with all of my cats and anyone he meets. #BeaglesAreTheBestBreed
Cute campaign but animals will still do weird things, regardless of their age (case in point, my rescue cat likes to sleep on top of my head if I'm reclining in bed and he's not a kitten anymore.)
Yeah I was like I get the point but animals can be weird beginning to end
Load More Replies...I'm all for adopting adult animals, but this campaign is straight up misleading. Our last adult dog, for instance, was definitely not house-trained and was a serious jumper. We worked with him as much as possible, but those behaviors were pretty much set for him. He also had serious abandonment issues, and had trouble dealing with being left alone in the house for even an hour. I'm not saying it was a mistake to adopt him - he brought so much brightness into our lives - but it is a mistake to promise people that adult dogs won't have behavior issues.
The most hump-enthusiastic dog I ever met was an eleven year old senior.
I get it but grown-a*s adult dogs and cats are all individuals and different so some of them still do some or even all those things but you can still train and teach most of them. Another problem is if animals aren't socialized right and trained from when they were little but even then they can in most cases still be worked with, taught and trained and deserve another chance
I have adopted adult animals all my life. Wish I had these posters when counseling others. Everyone wants a cute puppy ... until it chews their shoes, etc. and eliminates all over their apartment. Then, they post an ad online or bring them back.
It's all fun and games till you realize puppies/kittens are like babies and they need A LOT of attention!
Load More Replies...We adopted a ten year old Dalmatian from our local rescue organization... and she was awesome! We were blessed enough to share our lives for 5.5 more years. I am 100% sold on adopting another mature/senior dog.
My two year old tabby, Sadie, is not yet a grown-a*s adult. I’m trying to train her not to kick up the litter and fling it everywhere.🙄🐱
MIght be easier to get one of those hooded litter trays! Though when I looked after my sister's cat he would walk out and then shake his paws thoroughly and fling it everywhere.
Load More Replies...Thanks for this post, B.P. any, and all stories of our pets is always well received, more please !!!
With my adopted cats and dogs, I am sorry to say, I was unaware of the senior pets in need of a home, at least now I hope to enlighten people of the seniors, I have seen some on t.v. programs of rescues, also learning of local pets, at this time in my life, I am unable to adopt more pets, however, it is well known now, let's adopt lonely Senior pets !!!
A good post, we need every idea we can think of to help adopt senior dogs and cats, Also, I know a group who rescue kittens and cats as that is a problem in my city, they are able to find homes for the kittens, however, the mother cats are left, so people need to adopt them and no kitten to train, and no furniture scratched up, get one or two scratch posts, put cat nip on them to entice the cats !!!
One of my cats adopted me a young adult, and she was a weirdo up until the day she moved back out years later. Started out very timid, gave birth to the kittens she was very early on with when she turned up, became a love bug then suddenly changed into a demon from the 7th circle of hell. It was like she was bipolar or had DID. One second she was loving all over you, snuggling, nibbling your toes, then out of nowhere she'd start literally snarling, violently attack the closest part of you and run away. She'd then spend the next day or so spitting and growling from behind the furniture, ambushing you (not in a cute way) and just being the most unpleasant feline in the world. One day she just moved out. Little weirdo.
Cute campaign but animals will still do weird things, regardless of their age (case in point, my rescue cat likes to sleep on top of my head if I'm reclining in bed and he's not a kitten anymore.)
Yeah I was like I get the point but animals can be weird beginning to end
Load More Replies...I'm all for adopting adult animals, but this campaign is straight up misleading. Our last adult dog, for instance, was definitely not house-trained and was a serious jumper. We worked with him as much as possible, but those behaviors were pretty much set for him. He also had serious abandonment issues, and had trouble dealing with being left alone in the house for even an hour. I'm not saying it was a mistake to adopt him - he brought so much brightness into our lives - but it is a mistake to promise people that adult dogs won't have behavior issues.
The most hump-enthusiastic dog I ever met was an eleven year old senior.
I get it but grown-a*s adult dogs and cats are all individuals and different so some of them still do some or even all those things but you can still train and teach most of them. Another problem is if animals aren't socialized right and trained from when they were little but even then they can in most cases still be worked with, taught and trained and deserve another chance
I have adopted adult animals all my life. Wish I had these posters when counseling others. Everyone wants a cute puppy ... until it chews their shoes, etc. and eliminates all over their apartment. Then, they post an ad online or bring them back.
It's all fun and games till you realize puppies/kittens are like babies and they need A LOT of attention!
Load More Replies...We adopted a ten year old Dalmatian from our local rescue organization... and she was awesome! We were blessed enough to share our lives for 5.5 more years. I am 100% sold on adopting another mature/senior dog.
My two year old tabby, Sadie, is not yet a grown-a*s adult. I’m trying to train her not to kick up the litter and fling it everywhere.🙄🐱
MIght be easier to get one of those hooded litter trays! Though when I looked after my sister's cat he would walk out and then shake his paws thoroughly and fling it everywhere.
Load More Replies...Thanks for this post, B.P. any, and all stories of our pets is always well received, more please !!!
With my adopted cats and dogs, I am sorry to say, I was unaware of the senior pets in need of a home, at least now I hope to enlighten people of the seniors, I have seen some on t.v. programs of rescues, also learning of local pets, at this time in my life, I am unable to adopt more pets, however, it is well known now, let's adopt lonely Senior pets !!!
A good post, we need every idea we can think of to help adopt senior dogs and cats, Also, I know a group who rescue kittens and cats as that is a problem in my city, they are able to find homes for the kittens, however, the mother cats are left, so people need to adopt them and no kitten to train, and no furniture scratched up, get one or two scratch posts, put cat nip on them to entice the cats !!!
One of my cats adopted me a young adult, and she was a weirdo up until the day she moved back out years later. Started out very timid, gave birth to the kittens she was very early on with when she turned up, became a love bug then suddenly changed into a demon from the 7th circle of hell. It was like she was bipolar or had DID. One second she was loving all over you, snuggling, nibbling your toes, then out of nowhere she'd start literally snarling, violently attack the closest part of you and run away. She'd then spend the next day or so spitting and growling from behind the furniture, ambushing you (not in a cute way) and just being the most unpleasant feline in the world. One day she just moved out. Little weirdo.