DogsInDanger.com For dogs with days numbered

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Dear Friends of Animals,

Companion Animal Network's historic pilot program run in February of 2007 gave birth to the launch of
www.DogsInDanger.com two weeks ago. The ground-breaking website, which is an adoption portal exclusively for animal control agencies which euthanize animals and provides the number of days each dog has to live before being killed, has caught the media's attention with a flurry of television, radio, press and internet reports.

First Reuters picked picked it up on their newswire

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN2630236520070926

Then CNET picked up

http://www.news.com/Adopt-this-dog-or-it-dies/2100-1038_3-6210295.html?tag=news.1

Then Fox 9 TV in Minneapolis ran a news report

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/myfox/pages/ContentDetail?contentId=4483854

Then New York Newsday ran a report

http://www.newsday.com/features/consumer/ny-lsgear5406153oct08,0,1529316.story

Then ABC 7 TV in Washington DC prepared a newS report which will run this coming Monday October 15th.
Then CBS national news did an interview which has yet to run.
Next the Associated Press carried it on their newswire.

Within hours Yahoo reported it to be the 3rd highest recommended website by internet users in the country and ran a report

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/canine_countdown;_ylt=Avpa.1SPrkdYcjLIj9hjFx8DW7oF

By nightfall WCBS all news radio reported on the launch of the website.
Today, October 14th, the New York Times carried a major article

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Canine-Countdown.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Plus, 600 newspapers around the country are running the story today
Tonight, the BBC is interviewing DogsInDanger.com founder Alex Aliksanyan live, which is broadcast throughout Europe
By this morning Yahoo ranks it as moving up to 2nd most recommended site in the world by internet users

THE INTERNET TRAFFIC IS SO OVERWHELMING THAT THE WEBSITE IS HARD TO LOG ON TO
THIS HAS BECOME THE 3RD MOST REPORTED ANIMAL STORY BEHIND KATRINA AND MICHAEL VICK

In the coming weeks many more media outlets will report on this historic breakthrough for animals.

DogsInDanger.com is the brainchild of Alex Aliksanyan, the brother of Companion Animal Network ("CAN") Executive Director Garo Alexanian. In February of 2007, thanks to funding provided by Maria Barnett, a long time animal rescuer and operator of the short-lived Noah's Ark Project Animal Shelter in Queens, CAN created a website for New York City Animal Care & Control's dogs as being in imminent danger of euthanasia, advertising the site on Yahoo.com, Newsday.com , NewYorkTimes.com among others. In a 20 day period 40 animals were adopted, with the quality of adoptors being unusually high for an animal control agency, as almost all adoptors either already had one pet and adopted a second or were motivated because they did not know that dogs were being euthanized in their community.

Upon hearing of this success Alex Aliksanyan, who had previously founded an internet based firm which was reported by MSNBC and Inc Magazine as being one of the 500 top growing companies in the country, jumped on the concept and created DogsInDanger.com. Within the first week two dozen animal control agencies subscribed. By the second week New York City Animal Care and Control, again asserting its position of being the nation's leader in innovative efforts to try to reach low-kill rates, became the first major city to join the website and began to list their dogs for adoption.

By the end of the second week 120 animal control shelters from around the country had joined the website.
DogsInDanger.com has dedicated a substantial budget to begin major advertising campaigns to publicize the website to educate the public that wonderful dogs are being put to sleep in their community for no reason other than a lack of homes.

WE URGE ALL ANIMAL ADVOCATES TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS BRIEF OPPORTUNITY AND CALL THEIR LOCAL ANIMAL CONTROL AGENCIES AND DEMAND THAT THEY JOIN THIS HISTORIC EFFORT TO BRING ATTENTION TO DOGS DYING IN EVERY COMMUNITY SIMPLY BECAUSE PEOPLE BUY OR BREED THEIR PETS INSTEAD OF ADOPTING THEM FROM SHELTERS.

[Ginger's Mom]

I think it is a great idea. I first became aware of it a couple of weeks ago when somenone posted a pup on here. I kept meaning to go back, but then forgot about it. Yesterday delidog posted something about it, but I couldn't get the link to work. I was afraid that they had been shut down or something. I hope not, I think it could work wonders for many dogs and it will help the kill shelters too. I hope it really does take off and become as popular as Petfinder. Now I just need to remember to use it. :)
ETA: I just tried searching for Dogs in Danger in my area. Apparently none of the shelters in NJ are participating. I finally just did a any dog search within 50 miles and found four Staffies in Staten Island. How do we get more shelters involved?

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How do we get more shelters involved?

I would send the info on the site to the shelters that are not involved.