SECOND GRADERS HELP SHELTER PETS FIND THEIR FUR-EVER HOME
"Hello, my name is Sunday Special," the letter began. "I would love to be adopted. If you do adopt me, I hope I will brighten up your Sundays like the sun! You'll be my Sunday Special and I hope I'll be yours!"
From NPR
Sleigh Ride is a chubby, blue-gray pitbull, and she'd been hanging around Richmond Animal Care and Control's shelter for quite awhile. But a letter from a second-grader — written on the dog's behalf — may have been the ticket home.
"Do you want to adopt me?" the letter read. "You can snuggle with me! I promise that I will be a good dog. You can even sleep with me if you want!"
Within about 10 days of posting the letter alongside the kennel, someone adopted Sleigh Ride into a fur-ever home, said Christie Chipps Peters, director of Richmond Animal Care and Control.
The letter came from a student in Kensey Jones' writing class at St. Michael's Episcopal School in Richmond, Va. It was part of a persuasive writing assignment — Jones' brainchild — that asked students to write letters in the voice of one of 24 animals — 23 dogs and one cat — at the shelter.
In each letter, the young writers persuaded readers to adopt an assigned pet, from the point of view of the animal.
So far, the students' work has been effective. After posting the letters outside each kennel, only four dogs remain: Pebble, Yosemite, Kotey and I'll Tumble For Ya...
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