#petfinder finds

[todaysbird]

the office supply gang

[muttsandmustelidae]

oh my god this petfinder dog

[waterme-stories]

My entertainment tonight is window-shopping PetFinder and scoffing at the cats listed as colorpoints.

She's sweet, but her ass is NOT a lilac point!

[thelasthalloween]

if dakavendish ever have kids and/or pets, what do you think they'd name them?

Another good question! Loving these.

I don’t see them as the type to have kids (they’re just fine being like weird gay uncles to Milo and his friends), but Dakota would have a lot of fish. I think he’d either give them very human sounding names or the kind of names you’d see on PetFinder (I love looking at those, they’re amazing). Either way, Cavendish would feel ridiculous when talking about the fish because of their names.

[pinksilvace]

[quasieli]

I wish I could convince my family to get a puppy. I need companionship and having a puppy to take care of would be so good for me.

[yardsards]

the fact that i don't currently have a cat is Fucking Rude

[elmo-f-tree]

warning for mention of a dying animal

there is truly nothing like looking for silly cat names on petfinder to make urself feel better about your dying senior cat just to find one with almost the exact same name but much younger and then almost cry about it in the middle of class

[pangur-and-grim]

Hi, idk if u remember but in 2018 u did a thing where u would look on Petfinder for cats that might have trouble getting adopted and shared them. U helped me find my best friend in the universe, Funky Daniel (though the Daniel was quickly dropped) and I am so forever grateful. He's such a mamas boy

I went go back to find the original post, and HOLY SHIT, what a transformation!

he looks so loved and healthy now. thank you so much for sharing these photos, it made me tear up!

[todaysbird]

[odddogs]

he's at least mostly a dog

[catfindr]

[puppyrickets]

i look like a fire type pokemon.

[l3irdl3rain]

Where do you find the crustiest of old cats. All the cats I see, even at "senior rescues" are maybe ten years old and generally pretty healthy.

I search petfinder with the “senior” and “special needs” filters turned on. And I’ll travel up to 5 hours for a cat I want.

And then a little bit of luck. As an example, Valentine looked pretty healthy in his pictures on the shelter’s website. I actually almost passed him up because he looked too healthy. But there weren’t a lot of other sickly, ancient options in my area so I figured I would settle for him. And how excited was I to figure out I had been catfished!!!

And then on the other hand, I got lucky/unlucky (depending on who you ask) with Bessie. Based on her pictures I suspected her to be older than she is. And I also was expecting some health issues. But it turns out she’s just blind and crusty. Not even that old!

[asterwild]

all my #doggust2024 art!

these are all based on real dogs (& cat) from shelters and rescues, as seen on Petfinder. stats in post descriptions were from Shelter Animals Count. find more #doggust at the dogsinaugust instagram page :)

[phantomrose96]

patches in her little harness… how did you manage to find the cutest creature to ever walk the earth to come and live in your house. she’s absolutely adorable. i would kill for her. make sure she knows

I KNOW RIGHT?@?!?! The shelter just... let me have her?????

I'd done a fair bit of cat searching on PetFinder back about 2 years ago (before getting demotivated). ...And it's like so many listings are "this cute and sweet and lovely cat has Every Single Illness and she needs an experienced cat owner who will be able to watch her 24/7" or "this cute and lovely cat is wanted for First Degree Murder in Oregon... but maybe her second chance is with YOU"

and it was like... you can only read SO many of those before feeling bad about not saving every cat, or giving the first degree murder cats a chance... I kinda gave up for a while.

Then in October I was cat-sitting for a friend for 3 weeks. Got used to having Cat:tm:. Got sad when Cat:tm: was gone. Other friend encouraged me to take up Petfinder again.

And Literal Day 2, Patches appeared. And I clicked on her expecting her to have Feline Everything Disease or to have killed a small village in rural Arkansas. And instead her description was just "she loves you! :D"

I got in contact with the shelter. Got in contact with the foster. Filled in the interest application. Got on the phone with her foster mom. And I was like "so about Patches?" and the foster was like "right! She loves you! :D"

I got to meet her, and instantly she came up for pets and the foster was like "She loves you! :D"

So I got Patches and I Like Her So Much. I Like Her So Much.

She's on my bed with me while I'm typing this and I'm telling her I like her so much.