TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – Fridays at WCTV are “Furry Fridays!”
It’s a chance to spotlight dogs ready and waiting to be adopted at the Tallahassee Animal Service Center and see these animals out in the sunlight and perhaps in a new light.
Since WCTV launched Furry Friday a year ago, it’s helped to change the lives of dozens and dozens of dogs. So far, 155 dogs featured on Furry Friday have been adopted.
Buttercup is one of them.
“We saw her on Furry Friday on December 20th and we adopted her the day after Christmas,” Wayne Wilbur said as he walked Buttercup at a local park.
“She was on TV for 30 seconds, is that all it took?“
”That’s all it took,” Wilbur said with a laugh.
Buttercup is now getting acclimated to her new life with the Wilbur family.
They had lost their 12-year-old dog earlier in the year and were only casually looking for a new one when Buttercup’s face flashed on their TV screen. The two-year-old was left behind at a homeless camp.
“Just what we heard she’d been through, it just broke our heart,” Wilbur said. “We knew we could give her a good life.”
WCTV launched Furry Friday a year ago in hopes of boosting adoptions at the shelter.
The videos feature dogs out of their kennels, enjoying a walk or a run or a belly rub a back scratch or even a hug.
Furry Friday tries to give a glimpse of each dog’s personality in hopes their new family is out there watching.
“I want them to be their own selves, their personable selves, no matter what it might be because there’s somebody out there for every kind of dog,” shelter volunteer Michelle Stewart said.
Stewart is among a dedicated group that volunteers to walk dogs for Furry Friday each week.
“I love these dogs and it makes me so happy to see them get out, get their faces in front of the public and get just that little bit more of a chance to get adopted by somebody wonderful,” Stewart said.
Buttercup is most comfortable in the great outdoors, but she’s getting used to having a real home and a family.
She already hops right up and takes a seat in the back of the Wilbur’s truck with her new riding buddies – their grandson Alister and a Ninja Turtle or two.
“She’s beautiful,” Becky Wilbur said. “She’s well mannered, well behaved,” she said, “you couldn’t honestly ask for a better dog.”
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