Shelter Exchange and Adopt-a-Pet.com Partner to Help Homeless Animals

RALEIGH, N.C. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- A new partnership was announced this week in the animal welfare community between Shelter Exchange and Adopt-a-Pet.com (formerly 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com.) This new collaboration between these two organizations provides the ability to help the growing number of homeless animals in the USA to find adoptive families through extensive outreach to shelters, rescues and the general public.

Shelter Exchange, a non-profit organization that provides a life saving web application to shelters and rescue groups at no cost, saw this partnership as a perfect match. “Every adoptable animal entered into Shelter Exchange can now be automatically uploaded to Adopt-a-Pet.com. This provides a huge time savings for shelters and rescues groups, and the animals are gaining so much more exposure on additional adoption websites,” said Claire Bokor, Founder of Shelter Exchange.

Since launching in September 2011, more than 200 shelters and rescue groups have already started using Shelter Exchange’s free solution, enabling over 300 adoptions of homeless animals.

About Shelter Exchange

Shelter Exchange was founded in October 2010 as a 501c3 non-profit organization to effect positive and lasting change to the challenging issue of animal euthanasia in shelters across the country. The Shelter Exchange software application enables a more complete approach, offering shelters and rescue organization a no-cost centralized resource aimed at reducing the volume of animal euthanasia and creating the best possible opportunities for rescue and adoption. To learn more about Shelter Exchange visit www.shelterexchange.org, http://www.facebook.com/shelterexchange or follow them on Twitter @shelterexchange.

About Adopt-a-Pet.com

Adopt-a-Pet.com (formerly 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com) is North America's largest non-profit pet adoption website with over 10,000 public and private animal shelters and humane societies posting their pets for adoption. Over 1,500,000 unique visitors search each month by zip code and other preferences to see photos and descriptions of pets for adoption in their area. Adopt-a-Pet.com helps shelters; humane societies, SPCAs, pet rescue groups, and pet adoption agencies advertise their homeless pets to adopters for free. Their adoption website also provides the ability to post on other large high trafficked sites such as, Marthastewart.com, Dog.com, Purina One and Pet Smart Charities site peoplesavingpets.org. To learn more about Adopt-a-Pet.com visit www.adoptapet.com/, http://www.facebook.com/Adoptapetcom or follow them on Twitter @TweetACritter.