With the Power to the Paws program, the Petfinder.com Foundation is donating up to $1,000,000 worth of power generators to Petfinder member shelter and rescue groups to help them prepare for disasters. These generators are lifesavers in times of trouble.
The "Power" in Power to the Paws comes from our friends at Honda™. Thank you for your support, Honda!
Prepare Yourself and Your Pets for Disasters
Petfinder.com and Merial™ think you and your pets should be prepared for disaster too. Take the steps listed here to keep your family and your pets safe.
Disaster Preparedness Checklist
- Locate pet-friendly hotels in case of evacuation.
- Find a pet-friendly friend or family member outside potential disaster zone.
- Keep up-to-date pet identification and update microchip in case of move.
- Keep current photos of your pets and photos of pets with the family.
- Prepare an evacuation bag with all your pets need (use list found on Pledge below).
- Make a Disaster Preparedness Pledge to your pet (download below)!
Hey, Where Is the Voting Feature for the Extra $5,000 Grants?
We regret to inform you that we have had to discontinue the voting for this event due to, shall we say, "VERY DEDICATED" shelter fans who have managed to skew the voting through the use of "clever" software tricks. We felt that the results would not be fairly distributed and do disservice to our adoption partners, negatively impacting the integrity of the initiative. And we didn't want a weird version of the 2004 Presidential election to be repeated on our site.
We are currently working on a system to restrict voting to individual Petfinder visitors--like you.
We will repeat this initiative at a later date (with lessons learned). We've been struggling to come up with a resolution that is fair to everyone and the Petfinder.com Foundation has agreed to randomly select two of the adoption groups that were nominated to receive this grant. Please accept our apologies. We want to be fair to everyone. Finally, THANK YOU for supporting your adoption groups.
