Digital Picture Frames Help People Find Pets!

The people who run the animal shelter in Mt. Carmel, Illinois, have discovered yet another use for their digital picture frames: They’ve put them all over town, in various businesses, to show people the animals that are eligible for adoption!

One of the group’s newest avenues for linking pets to potential adoptive families utilizes some trendy technology — digital picture frames that display images of pets currently housed at the shelter. Tom Beuligmann, volunteer for the Shelter Buddies, came up with the idea.

“I thought, ‘What is a way to get them adopted quicker?,’ said Beuligmann. “Taking pictures and having people see these animals on a daily basis seemed like it would help.”

Beuligmann purchased the first digital frame, and got Charlie’s Collision & Customs in Mt. Carmel to agree to display it. The second frame was purchased by another volunteer who, in turn, got the Mt. Carmel Animal Hospital to agree to display it.

The third frame was purchased by Mt. Carmel City Commissioner Norm Brunson after he heard about the volunteer organization’s efforts to feature these animals in need of rescue. It is displayed in his business on Market Street in uptown Mt. Carmel, Norm’s Barber Shop.

“There are more picture frames in the works,” said Beuligmann. “We just need more individuals and businesses to agree to sponsor the frame.

This is a fantastic idea, and an excellent way to help YOUR local humane society!  Why not give them a call and see if they are up for a publicity program like this?  Digital picture frames are less and less expensive every day, and a donation such as this might be much more helpful than we could even suppose!

You can read the whole article about the Mt. Carmel animal shelter right here.

I would suggest that it would be even easier and more convenient to use wireless digital picture frames for something like this, so all of the updating could be done right from the animal shelter computer.  With its own FrameChannel account, any humane society shelter could send pictures of its lovable cats and dogs all over town, for people to see!  Not everyone takes the newspaper to see such articles and pictures, but everybody shops, and if there is a wireless/digital picture frame anywhere, people stop and look at it.  Why not let them look at potential pets?

The digital picture frames have had quite a good success rate, and the Mt. Carmel shelter is happy to report that fewer and fewer animals are being euthanized, and more and more are being adopted.  Why is this?  Because, with the digital frames, people are SEEING the animals and falling in love with them.

Now, run out and buy a digital frame for YOUR animal shelter, and show them how to use it.  There are a lot of big-eyed, sweet-natured, loving dogs and cats in shelters everywhere who would really appreciate it!