Today I want to share a neat site that a fellow crossposter showed me a while back. It's called The Rescue Shelter Network.
The Rescue Shelter Network
It allows you to search a list of breed-specific rescues for all sorts of animals, based on geographic location. This allows you, as a crossposter, to not only share those pictures on Facebook, but to contact rescues that may be interested in that dog or cat directly.
For example, you see a Boston Terrier listed as urgent in a rural shelter in Georgia. You select "Boston Terrier" from the Dog Breed drop-down menu. This takes you to a page where you can select the state..."Georgia Boston Terrier Rescue Groups" (you can also select to see all groups nationally). Once you get to the Georgia page, it will tell you that there are no rescue groups for Boston Terriers in Georgia that are listed on this site, but it does give you links to the closest rescues to Georgia. You can then find these groups' contact information, and send them the information for the dog. Sometimes out of state rescues will be willing to help dogs in other areas, if they are a breed that fits their rescue.
Remember to be as thorough as possible when contacting rescues, as they sometimes don't have the extra time to look up information on a dog that they may be interested in, but came to them with limited information.
Making sure that you give a rescue all of the information they will need, even if you have to look some of it up yourself, makes it easier for the rescue to act on saving animals that they are interested in. And we all like to see "SAFE", right?
What tools do you use in your crossposting efforts? Give me a shout and let me know.
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