Be a Puppy Bowl Star and Help SSP Pups!
The first Puppy Bowl aired on Animal Planet for te SuperBowl in 2005. With Harry Kales, voice of the Philadelphia Phillies as the announcer to give the game extra authenticity, PuppyBowl landed in the hearts and living rooms of America. The following year, the Bissell Half Time Show was added, featuring cats. My favorite feature came in 2007, with the action cutting to the parking lot, where the adult dogs tailgated and reacted to the game on tv!
This year, Puppy Bowl presents, Pepper, a parrot who will sing The National Anthem before the game starts, to give Puppy Bowl even more components of the human SuperBowl. I can’t wait to hear him sing. I have told a friend who has a parrot to be sure to tune in to see how they react to Pepper’s performance.
There is also something else special about Puppy Bowl this year.
Saving Shelter Pets is hoping you will see the puppies featured in the game, who are all safe and out of harms way, and will be adopted into loving families from their rescues when the game is over. However, there are some pups that don’t have the luck of the lime light. Saving Shelter Pets has a large group of puppies…40…who are hoping to sign up for the Puppy Promises program this month.
Here are just a few of the hopefuls.
The puppies are intercepted from being dumped at the shelter, sometimes even at the shelter door! Their owners are given another option. If they will quarantine the pups at home for another two weeks, SSP will give them their shots on the spot. In two or three weeks, pending they are deemed healthy by a vet, they will be transported to a reputable rescue where a family is waiting to adopt them. As for “mom dog,” she gets spayed after the pups are well on their way so that there are no more accidental litters. What’s more, is that all the other adult dogs and cats at the house are spayed or neutered by SSP as well.It was noticed that the same last names and addresses would come up, and is more proactive to spay everyone than hope there will not be another litter. Some of these families take good care of their pets, but just cannot financially handle a litter of puppies or are not allowed to have so many. However, many of the pups are born to dogs living outside, or even on chains. Mom was a sitting duck for any dog that wandered in. And if a pup wandered away, mom was restricted by the chain to go retrieve them from danger. Some puppies could die and have from drowning in puddles or from cold or illness. SSP needs to get these pups out of their situations, and have often helped mom dogs too if their family cannot care for them.To make things fun, please go to the Animal Planet site and pick your favorite Puppy Bowl Pup. For a $10 or more donation, tell SSP who you would vote for. 2 donors will be selected at random to win a PuppyBowl DVD!! There are 40 puppies this time and $50 per pup covers spay for their housemates, transport to rescue and all of their care. SSP is hoping to inspire 200 people to vote and contribute $10 each and to be able to send Puppy Promises class of late January/early February on their way!
The Puppy Starting Lineup can be found HERE. You can donate to SSP by clicking on the banner below and be sure to write the name of the Puppy you would pick in the note section! SSP is a (501)3c charitable organizaion. All donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
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