When our friend Lisa at Dogs ‘N Pawz (DogsnPawz.com) asked us to join her and Rachel at My Kid Has Paws (MyKidHasPaws.org) in promoting a new phone app that benefits animal rescue and shelters, we wanted to help. As it turns out, we get to have fun in the process as well.
Pose A Pet™ app is an app that was created to help you take photos of your pets by using the same sounds, such as squeaks, howls, and quacks, that professional photographers use to get pets’ attention.
Pet photography is so much fun, and this app makes it easier to take great pet photos! Who doesn’t love the classic head tilt? How do you get your dog to do that? Luke responded to every single sound on the phone, and even got excited when he heard the dogs barking sound when I was photographing the other dogs across the room!
How does this benefit shelters and rescues? The creators of Pose A Pet™ are committed to animal rescue. The app can not only help get great photos of pets in need, but it can be made into an adoption flyer for sharing across the internet and on their sister site RescueRevolution.
The basic app is free, but for only $3.00 you can get the premium version. 50% of these proceeds will be shared with rescues and shelters through their 50/50 share plan. The campaign is being kicked off with this blog campaign. Each blogger who shares a post about the app can have the proceeds for their week go to a rescue of their choice. So for this whole week, Monday through Sunday, if you download the premium app proceeds will be shared with my choice of Peace and Paws Dog Rescue, the rescue that we adopted Luke through.
The premium version of this app has 20 total sounds to choose from; plus it has the ability to save photos and flyers to your phone and to share them to social media from there. It is available for Apple or Android. There is a selection of text to choose from for each flyer, which is easy to fill out on your phone. I was happy to see they even have an option for making a lost flyer pet, which could come in very handy for pet families if their pet went missing.
This app will be a great tool for rescues and shelters to be able to get quality photos of pets in need; turn them into an eye catching flyer to share across networks; thereby hopefully leading to more fostering and pet adoption. Better photos lead to more adoptions. According to the ASPCA, approximately 7.6 million animals enter shelters nationwide each year, and 2.7 million of them end up euthanized. Who wouldn’t want to see those numbers decrease?
So you can have fun with this app and help shelter and rescue animals as well. If you’d like to share this with your local shelter you can help them sign up to join the campaign. The infographic below shows you how.
We hope you will download the app this week, have some fun with it, and benefit Peace and Paws Dog Rescue. Some of you may be familiar with them through their Facebook shares of “Giddy & Twinkle’s tip of the day”. If not, you can learn more about them through their website or Facebook page.
To learn more about Pose A Pet™, click on the links below.
*Disclaimer: I have knowingly and willingly signed up for this Pose A Pet™ campaign in order for Peace and Paws Dog Rescue to financially benefit from the app downloads. However, Wag ‘n Woof Pets only shares information that we feel is relevant. Pose a Pet™ is not responsible for the content of this article.
I love this app and have gotten some great pics of my fur babies! So glad you posted about the app! Hope you get lots of downloads for your rescue!
Thank you for inviting me to join, Lisa, I am glad I did!
Thanks so much for this wonderful post & for helping us help Rescue!!! We’re so happy to see everyone downloading and enjoying 🙂 Thanks for joining the #RescueRevolution!!!
You are very welcome! I am also so glad it is generating some interest…I think it’s going to be such a great tool for rescues and shelters.
I love this app, it really gets my gang to tilt their heads. Hope it raises much money for your rescue.
Love the post! Thank you so much again for participating in this campaign!
Looks like a good app to showcase shelter pets.
What a fun app! We have a similar one–the BarkCam app–but it doesn’t benefit shelters. We have to be selective about which sounds we use, though, because some like the doorbell make Barley act in ways that shouldn’t be caught on camera 🙂
I know what you’re saying. We have enough trouble with Luke responding to “barking dogs” in the neighborhood, and I can’t watch dog videos on my computer half the time! Oh, and if dogs bark on TV….watch out! We used to get similar responses from our beagle Kobi when doorbells were heard on TV. 🙂
I got the premium version when Lisa first posted about it 2 or 3 weeks ago. Sorry to say it was a waste of money for me — the girls all just totally ignore the sounds. Maybe I’ll wait a while and try it again. But, at least the profit from my purchase is being put to good use!
Yes, you made a nice donation anyway! I did find that it helped to turn my volume all the way up. Luke responded to it every time, but Sheba and Cricket were a bit more difficult, though it worked with them at least some of the time. The cats – well, forget that. 🙂
This sounds like something that could help with the mom taking pictures of us. We always seem to look away from the camera.
Interesting – I can never get Maggie to look at me – I’ll have to see if these sounds work with her.
It worked better with some animals here than others. Luke was the best, and our cat Sam was the worst….she just continued to give me that contemptuous look she’s so good at. 🙂
I love this app and will be reviewing it for my local shelter! I hope you do great, it is an awesome app and opportunity!
I think that’s such a great idea! (But… I downloaded the app the other day when JoAnn mentioned it on SandSpring, and I cant’ get it to work. There’s either something wrong w/ my phone, or it’s operator error on my part, but when I tap the “honk” or whatever buttons, nothing happens. I think I need a new phone!)
Jackie, I had that problem at first, too. If you’re using an iPhone 5, try going into the volume control and turning it most of or all of the way up.
I only have an iPhone 4 – but I just realized what the problem might be. I think there’s something wrong w/ the sounds on my phone. It works fine when watching a video or whatever, but it suddenly stopped ringing the other day, and it doesn’t give me the notification sounds when I get a text anymore. I need to take it in and see if they can figure out what’s wrong with it!
I’m glad you think you found the solution, Jackie, and hope you can get your phone fixed! My old Android phone used to have sound issues too, and re-booting it would help, then removing the battery, then I finally had to get a new phone (hope you don’t have to do that).
I love the commentary on your photos. “Luke is not up for adoption” “Cricket is not lost!” I’m sorry, it just made me giggle. I’m glad to see so many app makers sharing profits, that’s a great thing.
Ha ha…I had visions of Cricket’s “I’m Lost” flyer popping up on Facebook and being seen by family or friends, who would then be calling me and yelling at me for not telling them Cricket was lost! 🙂
What a super idea AND I love the fact that it’s assisting with rescues and shelters. I will download today because you know I love taking photos of the boys! Thanks to all of you for getting this information out. I will definitely share also!
Thank you for sharing, and for getting the app, Cathy. I know you and the boys will have fun with it! I’m happy to help spread the word.
Oh yes! This is available on Google Play too??? I thought it wasn’t! I am definitely getting this!
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Yes it is!! My phone is Android and I was able to get it no problem.
Very neat app. Shared this with my friends at the local shelter.
That is great, Mark, thanks for sharing it with your shelter!
I like this app and I can’t wait till our phone comes back from the repairguy…. that’s the furst thing I will try … :o)
What a cool app. Will have to check it out.