PLEASE HELP US INFORM, EDUCATE & SAVE LIVES GLOBALLY!
Your Involvement is KEY to This One Of A Kind Public Awareness Campaign
ONLY With Your Assistance, Can We Create Awareness, Boost Animal Adoptions & Save Lives of Shelter Animals Nationwide
LOS ANGELES (September 24, 2010) – Found Animals Foundation (www.foundanimals.org) joined forces with award winning, celebrity/fashion photographer Adam Bouska (www.bouska.net) & BrownTrout Publishers, Inc. (www.browntrout.com) earlier this year, to develop an innovative campaign to save lives by bringing attention to the millions of shelter cats in need of homes nationwide. The event took place on June 5th, 2010 and featured an open casting call to find 12 sexy studs and their pet cats for a global companion cat campaign and calendar titled “6 Packs/9 Lives.” 24 men were chosen as finalists who currently appear on our website (http://www.foundanimals.org/index.php/6packs-9lives.html). Each week 3 new men appear on the site. Through the power of the web, we are asking the public to check out each calendar hopeful, watch their video clip which streams on our Youtube Channel, and vote for their favorite contender until the final 12 are chosen!
This Is How You Can Help!…We’re asking that you please partner with us on this initiative, by informing your readers about this one of a kind campaign. By doing so, you’ll not only help create a great calendar, but creatively educate the public and save so many lives of shelter animals globally in the process.
“6 Packs/9 Lives” is not only a one-of-a-kind project, but will be the first calendar ever published to incorporate sexy men and their cats. To brand the campaign and boost global public awareness, Bouska will bring his artistry and unique style to photograph the hot men and their cats. Bouska’s work has been featured within various mediums including the New York Times, Life & Style magazine, Guinness Book of World Records 2010, Chelsea Lately, the TODAY show, The View, CNBC, and more. He also is noted for his work with celebrities such as Barry Manilow, Meghan McCain, Deepak Chopra and Lisa Ling. Bouska's most recent acclaim has been for his involvement with the NOH8 Campaign, a silent photo protest and non-profit organization he co-founded to raise mass awareness for human equality.
“6 Packs/9 Lives,” will be published and distributed by BrownTrout Publishers, Inc. (www.browntrout.com). Found Animals is ecstatic to partner with BrownTrout (the largest calendar publisher worldwide) to publicize the life saving messages within the calendar. Ongoing promotion of the winning men and calendar will include various media outlets such as broadcast news, morning talk shows, radio programs and others. Proceeds from the calendar will be used to improve the lives of shelter animals and support various initiatives including spay and neuter services, microchip programs and adoption of shelter animals and homeless cats and dogs globally.
“6 Packs/9 Lives” was developed to promote cat adoptions and to bring attention to the millions of cats and other animals that end up in municipal shelters each year nationwide. Due to minimal awareness in regard to shelter locations, these facilities are consistently overcrowded and underfunded. As a result, many facilities are forced to put down most of their animals simply for the lack of space.
The “6 Packs/9 Lives” calendar campaign uses a fun and sexy medium to attract attention and highlight the issue of overcrowded cat populations within shelters across the country. This calendar and the men that appear in it will bring much needed attention to an issue that’s become a national, yet still silent, epidemic. Through this initiative we’ll be able to find homes for countless animals and encourage people everywhere to visit their local municipal shelters to adopt their first or next pet. For every animal adopted from a shelter, three lives are saved. In this context, we hope the calendar may reflect a tremendous impact on the animal shelter system nationally.
Michael Gilman at (310) 574-5792 or e-mail michael@foundanimals.org.
About Found Animals
Found Animals Foundation (www.foundanimals.org) is a privately funded Los Angeles based non-profit organization dedicated to animal welfare issues and led by business and medical professionals. The Found Animals team works directly within the animal welfare community to improve animal shelter processes, fund pet sterilization research, promote effective animal welfare policy, and provide funding to area shelters and spay/neutering clinics. The organization also sponsors and promotes pet adoption, spay/neutering, micro-chipping programs, and various animal and pet-related events.
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