FINDING LOVE IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES?
~ Animal Planet's
"Petfinder" Gives Unconditional Affection to Families
in Feisty New Series ~
February 2008
Silver Spring, Maryland -
In this corner…weighing in at a cool 120 pounds… is
Mom, hell-bent on a teacup yorkie. And in this corner
is Dad, a svelte 160-pounder who is vying for a chocolate
lab and new best friend. Each won't give in to the another!
It's a battle to the bitter end as both are looking
for a little love outside of their marriage.
Who's gonna win it? Only Animal
Planet's PETFINDER knows! And only PETFINDER knows that
there's nothing like the right pet to open their hearts
so that everybody wins. This all-new series creates
the peace by finding just the right pet fit.
PETFINDER is based on Animal
Planet's immensely popular Petfinder.com, the pet-related
site which facilitates pet adoption. Founded in 1996,
it is the largest searchable database of adoptable pets
on the web and has helped with more than 11 million
adoptions in the last 11 years. Thanks to the site,
more than 250,000 homeless pets in over 11,000 animal
placement organizations across North America have their
own homepages.
Tasked with finding the perfect
pet for this battling couple are Animal Planet's offbeat
animal behaviorists and co-hosts - naturalist, zoologist,
and pet expert Jarod Miller and "dog trainer to the
stars" Dina Zaphiris. If it's a pig, pug or python,
Jarod and Dina have the chops to understand the essential
elements in the co-mingling of animals and humans, and
they know what it takes to pet proof a home in order
to keep animals safe and integrate the two species with
ease.
Joining Jarod and Dina in
the matchmaking business are the cast of "Teachers'
Pets." These lovable, sometimes unusual, and always
already adopted characters range from the Great Dane
who loves to snuggle to Cleopatra the Sphinx, the cat
who doesn't shed a hair. These pooches, cats, rabbits,
ferrets and more help adoptive families figure out which
new addition will be right for them - and which won't.
After all, millions of pets in shelters are there because
things didn't work out once. It's PETFINDER's job to
be sure it doesn't happen to them again. For more information
please visit www.animalplanet.com.
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