November is a big month for dog lovers! This week is National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week and November is Adopt A Senior Dog Month. The season of giving is here! And, there are pets, shelters and rescues who need your help. I’m excited to share AdoptaShelter.com with you; it’s a great way to check everyone off your list, in one place at one time, all while you shop for a cause; Shop for a Pawsitive Cause, that is!
And, the ultra stylish entrepreneur, reality tv star of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and Vanderpump Rules, and animal activist, Lisa Vanderpump, is going to make it even sweeter. She’s giving away a very generous and gorgeous basket of Vanderpump Pets goodies to the person who raises the most money for Vanderpump Dogs, her non-profit foundation dedicated to creating a more humane world for dogs. Wait until you hear everything Lisa is doing to help animals around the world.
We have lots of shopping to do between November 10th and December 10th, 2016, the length of this campaign. Read on to learn more and see how to participate in Shop for a Pawsitive Cause!
You’ve never heard of AdoptaShelter.com?
Here’s what you’ve been missing! 🙂 750+ online stores and services, including many major big boxes, in their free cash-rewards-mall (Amazon to Zazzle and more);
2,000+ registered animal welfare organizations from all 50 states to choose from; $80,000+ donations paid out to animal welfare organizations.
Here’s the breakdown: When you shop your favorite stores and services through the AdoptaShelter.com site, a percentage of everything you buy is donated to the animal welfare organization you choose. And, they donate 50-75% more than Amazon Smile purchases. How great is that?!
Did you know that 5-7 million animals enter U.S. shelters every year, and close to 3 million are euthanized? That’s why it’s so important to support our local no kill shelters and to adopt our pets. And, this is what inspired AdoptaShelter.com founder, Chris Ruben, to launch the site.
AdoptaShelter.com was founded five years ago to support the organizations doing great work for our homeless companion animals. “From the beginning, AdoptaShelter.com has been a total volunteer team effort,” declared Ruben. “We built this website for the singular purpose of generating much-needed cash donations from the online shopping of animal lovers.”
One of the pups helped
So, do you shop Walmart, Expedia, Petco, Amazon? What about Macy’s, Office Depot, Petsmart, Overstock.com? If you answered yes to any of these, would you click through AdoptAShelter.com first, so your purchase helps your local animal shelter or rescue at no cost to you? Of course you would! And, that isn’t even the tip of the iceberg; remember, we’re talking over 750 popular retailers!
Shelters and rescue orgs, this helps you! When you enroll your organization with AdoptaShelter.com, you become part of a shopping community of animal lovers who want to help. So, go to AdoptaShelter.com and sign up.
Now, let’s talk Lisa!
Lisa with some of her dogs
When you hear the name Lisa Vanderpump, some of you may think wealthy, reality tv star, author and restauranteur. Did you realize Lisa is also an animal activist who’s traveled to Asia and Washington D.C. to raise awareness about the cruel atrocities of the dog meat trade? She created Vanderpump Dogs out of her and husband, Ken Todd’s deep love for dogs. And, they have eight of them! The infamous Giggy, Harrison, Pink Dog, Pikachu, Lollipop, Schnookie, Rumpy and Avery rule the roost at their Beverly Hills home.
“It was never a normal situation at home,” Vanderpump laughed. “There would always be ponies in the kitchen and I rode the horse to the village in my pajamas, and we had ducks on the bed. Now, we are absolutely passionate about our dogs, I mean they are like our children, really. I think after having been a judge at the Hero Dog Awards for the last few years, I have an even greater respect for man’s best friend. My life has literally gone to the dogs.”
What is Vanderpump Dogs?
It’s Lisa and Ken’s platform to help change the world for the better for dogs. They’ve created campaigns here and abroad to help influence legislation, to educate and to affect the treatment of animals globally.
Vanderpump Dogs has its paws in the following:
- The Spot, their Los Angeles rescue and shelter. The Spot encompasses the L.A. Rescue team, which finds stray or abandoned dogs, treats and cares for them and helps them get adopted, via their facility and online.
Jonas, one of The Spot adoptable dogs
The Spot includes a transport van, complete with an emergency medical kit, kennels, and air conditioning, helps to execute larger rescues for dogs out of dangerous circumstances. These are dogs living on the street or in abusive and neglectful homes.
- International Work – Lisa and Ken have traveled to Asia and Washington, to draw more attention to the cruel torture of the dog meat trade and to end the Yulin Dog Meat Festival. Lisa, with a small number of other animal activists, was invited before Congress on September 14, 2016, to share what she’s seen and learned about this horrendous industry, and to help push through Resolution 752 to end Yulin and this inhuman trade.
- Vanderpump Dogs has petitions and crowdfunding campaigns, in partnership with animal activist organizations on the ground in Asia, like The DuoDuo Animal Welfare Project, to shut Yulin down and to end the dog meat trade in China.
- There is the 10 x 10 Campaign where, for $10,000, they can medically treat, groom, feed, adopt out and transport out of China 10 dog meat trade survivors. And, they are involved in raising funds for a shelter in China, where bigger strays waiting for transport can be housed and receive good care.
Lisa, Ken, RHOBH cast mates draw thousands to march drawing awareness to the dog meat trade
So, when you help raise money for Vanderpump Dogs, you are supporting a great cause, both domestically and abroad.
With a life as rich and full as hers, I asked Lisa what she would like her legacy to be. “I would like to feel that I’ve implemented some kind of change in this world,” she shared. “I’d like to say I’ve lived my life with humor, with grace. I’d like to say that the time I’ve spent on this planet, hopefully I’ve made some sort of difference for it to be a better world and a better society.”
The Vanderpump Pets Package You Can Win!
VP Pets Large Crystal Pet Bowl
Vanderpump Pets is the place to shop if you love a bit of dazzle, well, maybe more than a bit of dazzle. The pieces are gorgeous and inspired by items Lisa loves. For anyone who’s watched the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and seen Lisa’s closet, you know what I’m talking about!
The person to raise the most money for Vanderpump Dogs through shopping between November 10 – December 10, 2016 on AdoptaShelter.com will win these items from Lisa and Vanderpump Pets:
- a Large Crystal Diamond pet bowl. Modeled after a very expensive bowl Lisa loves, this looks stunning and it can be yours.
- a matching Diamond Name Plate silver collar and leash
- a faux fur, soft and cozy embroidered pet blanket; choice of pink or black
Vanderpump Pets Signature Diamond Name Plate Silver Collar
Embroidered plush faux fur pet blanket in pink
The retail value of the package is close to $300.
How do I enter?
It’s so easy. Just go to AdoptaShelter.com and sign up to their newsletter. Then, start shopping. Because there are so many stores and service providers participating, you won’t have any trouble finding what you want for your holiday or personal shopping, or for planning a trip and more. And, shop like you mean it! 🙂
The person to raise the most money for Vanderpump Dogs at the end of the campaign will be the winner.
A sweet AdoptaShelter.com Adoption Story
With over $80,000 raised for shelters from shopping on the site, there are quite a few wonderful adoption stories provided by grateful shelters and patrons. Throughout the campaign, I’ll be sharing some with you. Here’s Burt’s story, as told by his dad:
Our home felt empty after losing our terrier-mix, Abby, who we lost to cancer. Because we do kitten rescue, we needed a very cat-friendly dog. For over a year, we searched animal shelters and adoption events and never found the one. On the night of June 22, I saw a Pug-mix on the Flower Mound Animal Services website. I’ve never been drawn to Pugs, but my little voice said, “He’s the one.” I was at the shelter when they opened. He was around 8 years old, sweet, laid back and when we showed him a cat, he was totally indifferent. HE WAS THE ONE! We named him Burt after the character in the Tremors movies. the Burt. At home he was as indifferent to cats as he was at the shelter. My 17-year-old Siamese-mix, Sam, even slept next to him on the first day. He loves walks and his Lambchop toy, and we love him. Thanks, Flower Mound Animal Services, for making our family whole again.
Will you shop through AdoptaShelter.com to help shelter animals?
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