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icted to watching dog rescue videos by now, then you don’t know what you’re missing. Seeing helpless dogs get the help they need and begin living brand new lives with happy owners is one of the main reasons people should use the internet.
So when stories about local nonprofits and schools teaming up, such as what happened with an Albuquerque animal shelter, people couldn’t help but be all over it.
A group of teachers from the Polk Middle School, located in Albuquerque’s South Valley, decided to reach out to the Bernalillo County Animal Care Center in order to help bring some much-needed attention to some long-term dogs in the shelter that were yet to get adopted by loving families.
This special collaboration took place during the Fall semester when the shelter managed to share some photos and notes of their adorable yet hard-to-place pets with the art students in Ms. McCrady’s class and writing students in Ms. Arriaga’s class.
Those in the art class made adorable portraits of the pups, while those in the language class created first-person appeals written in the voices of the dogs in need.
These creative works were placed by the kennels of the dogs, allowing visitors of the shelters to see them as they passed by each cage.
Then during the Spring, the 7th grade class of another teacher, Ms. Beverley, added “resumes” for the dogs using the information provided by the shelter’s staff about the dogs to help possible owners learn more about the rescues.
Their mission was to place all the skills and tricks of each dog on the list in order to make them more suitable to the families, such as ‘stays when commanded, uses doggie door, comes when called,’ and other such doggy traits.
Because of the ingenuity of this plan and the amazing additions by the students, by May 17, at least six of the dogs were adopted by families.
As explained by Animal Protection New Mexico Education Director, Sherry Mangold, it was because of the empathy and concern of the Polk students for these shelter dogs that led to many of their rescues, allowing them to finally find their ‘fur-ever’ homes.
See more about this incredible story in the video below:
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