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Tanuki

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Sat Jan 25, 2020, 04:24 PM Jan 2020

Florida brewery features pups in need of homes on its beer cans

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/25/florida-beer-cans-feature-images-pups-in-need-of-homes

"Two decades after America’s milk carton kids faded into folklore, a Florida brewery has revived the tradition for animals in need of help: printing photographs on its beer cans of dogs seeking a new home.
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Already two dogs have been adopted from Manatee county’s animal services department as a result, the brewery selling more than 150 four-packs of Kolsch featuring photos of the four dogs as a “yappy hour”

"We are huge animal lovers here, huge dog people,” Barry Elwonger, Motorworks’ director of sales and marketing, told Florida TV station WFLA.

Two dogs from the original batch, Morton and King, were adopted this week while the others, Candy and Day Day, are still in the county’s shelter in Palmetto, awaiting adoption along with 150 other animals.

“There’s hundreds more dogs that are looking for their homes. We wanted to showcase [that] the shelter has some really wonderful dogs,” Elwonger said."...(more)


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Florida brewery features pups in need of homes on its beer cans (Original Post) Tanuki Jan 2020 OP
Ohiogal also posted similar article in Pets shenmue Jan 2020 #1
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