Petfinder has partnered with Thundershirt to help put your adoptable dogs at ease. Thundershirt is a proven solution for many types of anxiety including noise, crate, travel, stranger and separation anxieties. Over 85% of Thundershirt users are reporting significant improvement in anxiety symptoms.
Donate-A-Thundershirt Program for Petfinder Members
The Donate-A-Thundershirt program lets your supporters provide a Thundershirt for each dog in your care who could benefit from one. Place a link on your Petfinder website - and your supporters can provide Thundershirts for your dogs. To get started, go to http://shelter.thundershirt.com/shelterBanner.aspx
1 - Click the link for the registration form (if you have not already registered with Thundershirt) and enter your organization's information
2 - Choose the graphic you want to use on your page
3 - Enter your Petfinder Shelter ID (use capital letters, e.g. NJ56)
4 - Click in the empty box below and it will fill with code generated specifically for your group
5 - Copy that code in the bottom box and paste it into your website
This will create the graphic you selected with a code assigned to you. When your supporters click on it, they will be taken to a special page created specifically for your organization. From there, they can purchase a Thundershirt for only $27.00 (deeply discounted from the retail price of $39.95) with FREE shipping and Thundershirt will send it directly to you!
Wholesale Program for Petfinder Members
Your organization can buy Thundershirts at wholesale for your own dogs or resell them to adopters as a fundraiser. Petfinder members can buy Thundershirts for only $20 (5 shirt minimum order) for your own adoptable pets as well as for resale to adopters whose new pets want to head for home with their very own Thundershirt. If you do choose to sell Thundershirts through this program, they must be resold for a minimum of $39, but some groups sell them for $40 or more in order to raise additional funds for their programs.
Just click here to go to Thundershirt.com and sign up as a wholesaler. Be sure to tell them that you are a shelter organization!
How Thundershirt Works
With its patent-pending design, Thundershirt's gentle, constant pressure has a dramatic calming effect for most dogs if they are anxious, fearful or over-excited. Based on surveys completed by over two thousand customers, over 85% of dogs show significant improvement in symptoms when using Thundershirt. Thundershirt is already helping tens of thousands of dogs around the world, and is recommended by thousands of veterinarians and dog trainers.
As for WHY Thundershirt's gentle pressure works to calm a dog, experts such as Dr. Temple Grandin believe that pressure has a calming effect on the nervous system. Using pressure to relieve anxiety has been a common practice for years. For example:
TTouch dog trainers use pressure to address a wide variety of anxieties.
Veterinarians use pressure to relax cattle when they are administering vaccinations.
People with autism use pressure to relieve their persistent anxiety.
Children with certain behavioral problems use pressure shirts and weighted vests to relax and focus.
Parents use swaddling to calm an inconsolable newborn infant.
Until now, there just hasn't been a well-designed, inexpensive pressure wrap commonly used for dog anxiety. Thundershirt is changing that! Thousands of veterinarians and dog trainers now recommend Thundershirts for their anxiety cases.
How to Use Thundershirt
Thundershirt is an excellent treatment for most types of dog anxiety and fear issues. For many anxieties, we recommend just putting on a Thundershirt and observing the results (No training!). You very well may see significant improvement for noise, crate, travel, barking and others with absolutely no training. For more complicated anxiety cases, we recommend using Thundershirt as part of a behavior modification program.
One thing is for certain, for a very large percentage of dogs, Thundershirt's gentle, constant pressure has a terrific calming effect. This has obvious benefits for most types of anxiety. But Thundershirt is also a very useful tool for managing excitability or hyperactivity with strangers, on the leash, or in a training environment. Thundershirt's calming effect helps a dog to focus (or refocus) her energies in a more constructive direction, allowing training to be more effective.
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