Petfinder needs our input! Please help!

Dear all,

If you care about homeless animals, this is the time to be heard.

Animal rescues have a friend.  We use RescueGroups.org (at NO cost!) to upload our adoptable homeless fuzzies to 15 sites at once.  This saves rescues Countless Hours of input time and means our furkids get that much more exposure to find their perfect home...But the biggest one, Petfinder, has decided to pull the plug on this valuable resource.  RescueGroups.org is a non-profit volunteer-driven website.  They do this for the love of animals. 

This decision to exclude RescueGroups.org from uploading FOR US and OUR ANIMALS is downright weird.  Please drop a note to Petfinder and ask them to reinstate this vital service to the rescue community.  We Really Need Your Help. 

Email Petfinder: pets@petfinder.com  or contact them directly:  Oh, and please forward and crosspost.

Discovery Communications, Inc.
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Phone: (240) 662-2000 (Legal)

Corporate Management

• David M. Zaslav
  President and CEO
  Discovery Communications
• Mark Hollinger
  Chief Operating Officer
  Discovery Communications
• Adria Alpert Romm
  Senior Executive Vice President
  Human Resources
  
• Bruce Campbell
  President
  Digital Media and Corporate Development
• Bill Goodwyn
  President
  Domestic Distribution and Enterprises
• Joseph A. LaSala, Jr.
  Senior Executive Vice President
  General Counsel and Secretary
• Brad Singer
  Senior Executive Vice President
  Chief Financial Officer

From RescueGroups.org announcement:

Sadly, Petfinder has insisted that we stop updating pets using their web site. Effective 11 AM Eastern on Friday September 11th, we are no longer updating pets on the Petfinder web site on your behalf for those accounts. We apologize for not giving you more notice concerning this issue, but it is out of our control. This does not affect all of our Petfinder uploads, so please review your exports page for your latest account status.

It's interesting to note that Petfinder currently supports data uploads from various shelter software and even individual organizations, but not from any of the RescueGroups.org services. We've talked to numerous organizations that currently upload data on their own with Petfinder's auto-upload.

It's also important to realize that RescueGroups.org (an unaffiliated, volunteer driven 501(c)(3) organization) does NOT place any advertisements in your pet data, and does NOT charge for pet data.

Please take two minutes to ask Petfinder to reverse this nonsensical decision and reinstate RescueGroups.org.  For us and the animals we help.

Sincerely,

The Bunnies
(typed by one of their humans, Alinda Lord)

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