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Adopt- a- Less- Adoptable-Pet- Week

September 13, 2016 by Tina Evangelista-Eppenstein Leave a Comment

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When:
September 21, 2016 @ 12:30 am – September 29, 2016 @ 9:00 pm
2016-09-21T00:30:00-04:00
2016-09-29T21:00:00-04:00
Where:
the world
Worldwide House
Thorpe Wood, Peterborough PE3 6SB
UK
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Your local shelter or rescue

Big black dogs. FIV+ cats. Senior pets. Special-needs animals.

Many factors can make a pet seem “less adoptable.” To promote these unusual (or, in some cases, too common) animals, Petfinder has designated the third week of September as “Adopt-A-Less-Adoptable-Pet Week.”

Survey Results: Which Pets are Hardest to Place?

Did you know that 99% of our shelters and rescue groups have housed adoptable pets that have a harder time getting adopted?

In fact, according to our survey, these “less-adoptable” pets wait for a home nearly four times longer than the average adoptable pet does … sometimes more than two years!

Which pets do our shelter and rescue group members have the hardest time finding homes for? Here’s what they said:

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