Adoptable dogs in Singapore Ikea store

Home for Hope campaign helps dog shelters reach out to homeowners at Ikea

Locally in Singapore, Ikea is currently running a campaign with the shelters – Save Our Street Dogs (SOSD) and Animal Lovers League (ALL) – to help find adoptable dogs a home. Life-like standees of the dogs are placed in the Ikea store in the furniture display areas to show how “…sometimes, it takes more than a good piece of furniture to complete the home.”

The website Home for Hope shows the dogs that are looking for good homes.

Home for hope website screenshot

Of the 36 dogs listed, two have been labelled as adopted since the campaign launched this month (at time of writing this article).

Unfortunately, the website does not show which dogs are HDB-approved. But the great thing about the website is that you can see how some of these dogs behave by looking at the videos of the photo shoot. Here’s two dogs, not yet adopted at time of writing, with especially waggy tails.

Home for hope website screenshots

Consolidated data from 9 welfare groups on adoptadog.com makes adoption easier for potential adopters

In the same month, I discovered the website adoptadog.sg on Facebook. It doesn’t look as slick as Home for Hope nor does it have videos. But the functionality! Get this, you can search by age range, gender and whether it is HDB-approved or not on their database. Because who wants to adopt a dog that you may possibly be forced to re-home because you live in an HDB flat?

And I say this is awesome because when I was looking to adopt Donna, I only had so much time to visit  3 or 4 websites to look at what dogs are available. And to be honest I didn’t even know there were so many dog welfare groups in Singapore!

This site does it for you! It has the data from not one, not two but nine* different dog welfare groups in its database. The welfare groups are listed on the homepage. That makes finding an adoptable dog so much more efficient and effective because you now have a larger pool to shortlist from!

*The actual list comprise 10 groups but no dog shows up under the 3legsgood listing.

Adoptadog.com appears to be developed by an individual. The site is meant to be self-regulating so hopefully the dog shelters and the developer will continue to support and update the information there.

What does a real home with a dog look like?

Now since Ikea is showing customers at their store how these dogs could potentially fit into the small living spaces that Ikea typically caters for, I thought Donna will show you real life! How she fits into living in our flat ;)

See if you can recognise which ones are the Ikea furniture.

Panting after a game of fetch with her toy hippo. 
Abuses her toys, so I have to spend time with the needle.

I thought you said no sitting on the furniture, human.

Always likes to eat and chew on her beds and stain it, which is why I always look for busy patterns in the fabrics to hide the stains.

Has lots of beds scattered about the flat and still likes to nap in the middle of the floor sometimes. Mind your steps!

A pet is a great companion and addition to the household, but he/she is not a piece of furniture. A dog needs to be fed, exercised, played with, bathed, and groomed, be checked regularly by the vet and safe-guarded from specific canine ailments that can strike easily.

So adopt, with consideration, not with impulse. ;)

References
– homeforhope.sg
– Furniture mall partners animal shelters to find homes for abandoned dogs
– Ikea helping dogs find a home
– Ikea promotes dog adoption by advertising homeless dogs in its showrooms