50 Shelters / 50 States - Florida

Happy Saturday, everyone!  MP here ... continuing the 50/50 in my home state of Florida. 

And in this case, it wasn't hard to decide to choose a dog and cat from a shelter right here in Tampa.

Meet Buddy ...

How cute is he?!!!!!!!!!  Buddy is currently residing at the Humane Society of Tampa Bay .  He's a two and a half year old male terrier mix.  He's also housebroken, neutered, and, unfortunately, heartworm positive, but has already started his treatment, and is available for adoption immediately.  Frankly, it's about all I can do to stop myself from going down to the shelter tomorrow and adopting him myself.  I might, though, take a drive down there and see if I can meet him in person and find out some more about him for a followup post. 

While I'm at it, the Humane Society of Tampa Bay also has many other lovely dogs available for adoption.  Here are just a few of them: 

Tink - 4 year old female Beagle mix

Rugby - 11 month old male Shepherd mix

Roco - 1.5 year old Tibetan Terrier mix

And now for the felines ...

Meet Sherlock! 

He's a two year old male domestic longhair - and although the information on his profile page is a bit sparse, one look into this guy's striking face makes me want to get to know him better.  What a gorgeous boy! 

And he's not the only one ... the Humane Society of Tampa Bay has dozens of wonderful cats just waiting for loving homes.  Here are just a few more ...

Saber - male domestic shorthaired tabby

Molly - 2 year old female calico domestic shorthair

Sanga - 2 year old female domestic longhair

Any of these beauties can be seen at the Humane Society of Tampa Bay at 3607 North Armenia Avenue in Tampa.  Their phone # is 813-876-7138 or you can email them at Ben@humanesocietytampa.org

And a HUGE thank you to Krista Sparkman of Krista Sparkman Photography for donating her time to take photographs of the animals at the Humane Society of Tampa Bay and help them be adopted. 

P.S.  Exciting news ...  I was THRILLED to learn, earlier this week, that Ares, the sweet boy profiled in the last 50-50 post has been ADOPTED!!!!!!!!!!  Not that we had anything to do with it, but we're very excited just the same, and are planning a followup post on Ares, hopefully to include an interview with his new adoptive mom, in the next week or two.   

 

Happy Friday!

TGIF, everybody!  I have to say - I'm ready for the weekend!  We had a late night last night at the Howliday Block Pawty to benefit the Humane Society of Tampa Bay - we met, we mingled, we made pawprints at Color Me Mine and got our pictures taken with Santa! 

We even ran into our favorite (and only - because Mom doesn't trust anyone else!) petsitter, Cindy, from Secure Home Solutions Pet Care    Cindy and her staff are pawsome ... they take great care of us and the cat kids when Mom has to go somewhere and can't take us!  They come and have a slumber party with us and stay with us pretty much all the time so we don't get lonely and miss Mom so much.  We go for walks and out to get yogurt, and when Mom gets home there is a whole big stack of notes about everything we did and everywhere we went, how we ate, and everything, so Mom feels like she was right there with us.  Mom sure enjoys her vacations and time away from us much more since she found Cindy, because she can just relax and not have to worry about us at all.  She knows that we're right there safe and comfy in our own familiar surroundings, not in some strange, scary place that we wouldn't like, no matter how nice the people are. 

After that, Mom & Aunt K. were pretty hungry and a mite parched (the participating businesses had water and treats for the canines, but not many munchies for the humans), so then we went to one of our favorite local eateries - Wine Exchange and met and mingled some more with other dogs whose humans were also a bit parched after all the festivities.  Mom & Aunt K. had a glass of wine and an appetizer while Phoebe, Cosmo, and I sniffed around for any dropped crumbs and generally had a howling good time!  I'll post a few pictures later tonight, and as soon as we get the email of our photo with Santa, I'll post those, too!

Meanwhile, here's another fun E-card we got - check it out:

Match the Dogs