FOTAS is on
the Social Media bandwagon using facebook, twitter, YouTube, BLOGS and the
FOTAS website. These tools are used for better communication. Events like the MuttStrut Walk for the Animals at Woofstock on Nov 10th, PetSmart Adoption Days, or
the need for dog and cat food or stuffed animals for our shelter pups; all are
online.
Our website
continues to evolve and is now connected to other Social Media tools.
With your online
participation, we could be so much more effective in reaching our audience: all
residents and businesses from the entire Aiken County Community. We want to
tell you all about current programs, needs, the new County Shelter and the
services it will provide.
Social media
has a great impact here. It can be fun and easy to spread the word to the
entire County.
With 880+
facebook followers, FOTAS can reach upwards of 10,000 people viewing our posts
in any given week. Our posts are shared and our message spreads!
How amazing
that we can “speak” to you and to people you know and then to their friends and
friends of their friends, all from one message posted on our FOTAS facebook
page, our website or a Twitter “tweet”. It’s like the Telephone Game without
the distortion of the message!
Like Us on
facebook to receive FOTAS updates along with friends updates. Follow us on
Twitter. Visit our website for more information and direct access to these
sites.
Share our
latest message! When we post something of interest, like our Capital Campaign,
a cute kitten or great dog, share it on your facebook page or with individual
friends who may share your interest in animals or just tweet it out. Think of
the possibilities and all the people we could reach! If they want to help they
can, if not, no harm, no foul. No phone calls or personal pleas for help
involved. People can choose to read our message or not. No annoying spam like
emails need be sent out through this process.
One of our
dogs was adopted by a family in Louisiana due to a shared post! All Events and
adoptable animals’ photos are on our website, facebook and Petfinder thanks to
Annette, Susan and Elizabeth.
These
powerful tools have led to pet adoptions, assistance from and partnerships with
other organizations, brought in donations for specific needs and even helped
find lost pets. Feel free to tweet messages from @FotasAiken and reach even
more people!
Our website
has a moving YouTube video tour of our current shelter, as well as fun videos
from past events like last years Fall Steeplechase!
Please use
these powerful tools to help FOTAS reach the entire Community that the Aiken
County Animals Shelter serves.
With your
help, we can reach those with the interest and resources to help us attain our
biggest goal yet: to build and outfit a new Aiken County Animal Shelter by the
end of 2013! Let’s help the abandoned animals of OUR County.
FOTAS Volunteers work with
the AIKEN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER, 411 Wire Road.
For more information, contact “info@fotasaiken.org” or visit FOTAS on
line at www.fotasaiken.org
Aiken County Animal Shelter: “By the Numbers”
October 8th thru 15th
Received:
96
dogs! and 38 cats!
Adopted:
14
dogs and 3 cats!
Euthanized:
32
dogs and 33 cats
Aiken County Shelter “Pets of the Week!” So much LOVE for so little!
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| BESS-1+ yr Choc. Lab mix Sweet gal Looking to love you! A special price of only $35! |
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| CHANCE-3 yr Loyal Australian Cattle -Blue Healer cross. A bargain at Only $35! |
This is a good start. But what is really needed is to get ALL the adoptable animals posted on the internet, not just the ones "on the adoption floor" so that so many adoptable animals will not be killed every week. I understand there are people who have offered to come photograph them and put them on Facebook, the way so many more progressive shelters have. Those people, and all legitimate rescue groups, need to be allowed in to save lives. People will adopt from all over the country if they see a picture and a story. Miracles can happen and the killing is not inevitable.
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