For many of our followers who are saving animals the wrong way, we encourage you to keep on doing it wrong. Just add the rights as well. Apologies for the long post, but here it goes: 1. The majority--yes, majority--of shelters we pull from either have no rescue coordinator or have a coordinator who does not regularly reach out to rescues. There are exceptions, of course, of shelters we work with that will contact us any time they can, whether it fits our group or not. And, some shelters send out a daily email showing their intake (which we LOVE!), but otherwise, we often find out about dogs in need from someone not part of the shelter. Unlike what this author seems to experience, many shelters dont notify rescues every time there is a dog they think could go to rescue. We sure love working with the shelters that do! :) 2. Some pets we find because we are scouting and pacing the shelter rows, but we cannot be everywhere at once. So, how do we find out about most of our shelter saves when the shelter isnt calling about an urgent animal? You guessed it. YOU! Many of you know us personally or work/volunteer for a shelter and tag us. I cannot tell you how many babies we have saved because of someone up way too late tagged us in a post--posts made very likely on pages run by volunteers, not the shelters themselves. We would not have found out about the baby on death row without crossposters and friends tagging us in threads. Unlike this author, we *love* being tagged. If we cant help, we (officially or personally) will help network until someone can! We are not at all irritated by logging in to find several tag notifications, so tag away! 3. Want to know why we like all comments on our posts? For one, we appreciate you following our rescue efforts, and want to acknowledge each and every comment personally. And two, we want to you continue commenting. FB has increasingly cut down the visibility of rescue posts unless you pay to boost each status. We choose to use 100% of funds on animals, not paying FB to let our followers see our content. The only way FB increases the visibility of our posts without paying is by likes/comments/shares. The more there are, the more FB opens our posts up to our followers. If the only thing you can comment is shared or I wish I didnt live so far away or :(, go right ahead! We appreciate you following our page and each and every like/comment/share increases the visibility of our posts. Even though we have 4500 followers, a post that gets zero comments and a handful of likes will only be seen by 700 or so followers. Ones with higher likes and comments are seen by the thousands!! So, please! Comment and share away! In sum, please keep doing what you are doing wrong. But, of course, the author is correct on what right things you can increase. Donate! Share! Foster/Volunteer! Educate! ... And not just for us. Local shelters would be in a much better situation if people did the same for them as well. :) **NOTE** If you want to make sure you never miss a post by us at Long Way Home Adoptables & Friends, go on our page, hover over the liked button, and click get notifications. Youll never miss an update again! Thank you for reading, and thank you for following our page. So much of what we do would not have happened without this page and the people who follow it!
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 02:06:44 +0000
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