You’ve probably already heard about the infamous
Facebook event called “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us.” Scheduled for
September 20th, the event now has almost 2 million attendees and even attracted
the attention of U.S. military. An Air Force spokeswoman has already
“discouraged” people from trying to come into the area. However, what happens
on the Internet usually stays there, meaning that the event was created only as
a joke. Nevertheless, this joke inspired one animal welfare center in Oklahoma
City to find an ingenious way of attracting potential adopters.
“Come storm our shelter”
“Come storm our shelter… We have great animals ready to protect you from the Area 51 aliens. Adoption isn’t that far out of this world!#stormtheshelter,” the representatives of the animal welfare center wrote on their Facebook page.
“We have great animals ready to protect you from the
Area 51 aliens”
“Adoption isn’t that far out of this world!”
The center also included some space-themed photos of
their lovely inhabitants that are up for adoption. They have also dressed up
dogs wearing small tin foil hats with an antenna. The post quickly received
numerous likes and comments from people. “Well done OKC, this is brilliant! I
hope you get a ton of adoptions!” one person commented. “Congratulations to
your team for coming up with this incredible idea to help find homes for these
babies. Probably the best marketing idea I have seen! Great job!” wrote
another.
The post is a reference to the Facebook event page “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us”
The shelter now has 116 dogs, 39 cats, and 2 piggies up
for adoption
Thanks to the viral post, two of the three pictured
dogs were adopted – except for the black one named Lady. The kitty in the photo
above has also found a loving home, unfortunately, not the other fur babies.
Before being given away to their new homes, all of the pets are spayed or
neutered, get vaccinations and treatments for worms, as well as microchips.
Since the shelter’s post on social media went viral,
majority of the animals seen in the photos have been adopted
Hopefully, all of them will soon find their forever
homes and loving families
For those interested, the shelter is open for adoptions
every day from noon until 5:30 pm. In addition to this, you can find all of the
animals that are up for adoption by following this link. The adoption fees for
dogs and cats are $60, however, it can be reduced due to special circumstances
(such as the animal has been up for adoption for more than two weeks, it’s
older than 4 years, it has a certain medical condition, etc.)
Here’s how people online reacted
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