Second Graders Draw Shelter Dogs To Help Them Find Their Forever Homes

The kids put in a lot of work on the pictures to help the pups get adopted.

Liezel

• Published in Animal Stories
• May 29, 2022

Every year, so many dogs end up in the shelter. There, they find a temporary home, food, and companionship but, of course, they can't stay there forever.

While some of them immediately get adopted, a lot of these poor pups end up waiting months or even years for the right person to pick them up. Understandably, there are many factors to consider when picking a shelter dog.

There's their compatibility with the family and the lifestyle of the person, their needs, and, of course, the preference of a person. What one might find adorable and perfect for their family might be the complete opposite for another person.

Still, every dog deserves a home no matter what kind of pup they are. It's just a matter of finding the right person who can give them what they need and give them the life they deserve.

In an effort to help out a lot of these shelter dogs find their forever homes, a class of kids drew pictures of the adorable pups and even wrote them their very own bios. When you see their works, you could really tell that these kids really want the pups to find homes.

Check out their project here:

These kids found a new way to help shelter dogs find homes

Norah Wimer, a volunteer at Adoption First Animal Rescue in Jacksonville, North Carolina, was trying to think up ways to help find forever homes for some of the dogs at the shelter. Then, she saw an article about a project where a class of kids reads to dogs as a way of helping the pups find homes.

This immediately inspired her which led to her asking her son's teacher if she could have the class do a project for the pups. In the project, the kids were asked to write bios for the dogs.

As soon as the kids heard about the project, they were beyond excited that they could help make a difference for a dog in need. Every one of the kids was allowed to pick out which dog they wanted to write about.

What's the most heartwarming part is that most of them gravitated towards the dogs with disabilities or the dogs who had a harder time getting adopted because of their special needs. They wanted to show people that the pups were just as wonderful as the other dogs despite their differences.

Each bio they did was made up of a drawing accompanied by a short write-up.

These drawings and bios were really made with love

Each of the kids really worked hard to showcase each dog's unique personality. After they were all completed, their teacher sent them to Wimer who was completely floored.

The project worked out even better than she had ever imagined.

“I was beyond impressed when I read the bios,” Wimer said. “They were so cute, and you could tell that the kids put a lot of work into them.”

Some of the bios were so sweet while others were funny. Their main similarity though is that all of them were unique and really showed the personality of the pups who were eager and waiting to be adopted.

The kids really had their own take on the pups

“My favorite has to be Alfie’s,” Wimer said. “The student wrote, ‘At first I will be kind of nervous when we get to my new home, so I might need some space to look around the place. I think I am pretty but I don’t know I am a dog, I can’t use a mirror.’”

The bios have already started to make a difference for the pups

Right now, the bios are on display on the rescue's Facebook and TikTok pages. The best part is that they've already started to make quite the difference in the lives of the dogs they've featured.

“They have sparked interest,” Wimer said. “Baylor, Tink, Kevin and Tygra have been adopted. Silco and Alfie are on trial (our rescue allows potential adopters to take adult dogs home for a weeklong trial to see if they are a good fit).”

The project brought joy to both the kids and the dogs

When Wimer first thought of the idea, she had no idea how it would turn out. In the end, it brought joy to both the kids and the dogs in need of finding forever homes.

This project is definitely a genius idea and we hope it could inspire more projects for shelter dogs all over the world who are in need of help finding their forever homes. Sometimes, people just can't see how great they really are and they just need some people to help other people understand them.

Liezel