This Shelter Brilliantly Named Their Puppies After Avengers To Help Them Get Adopted
Friends Animal Shelter of Cocke County, Tennessee, had a litter of nine puppies land on its doorstep just as Avengers: Endgame hit theaters, and the timing could not have been better.
Director Alisha Henry saw an easy way to turn a crowded shelter moment into something memorable, so she gave each puppy an Avengers-inspired name and leaned into the movie buzz.
It was a simple idea with a big payoff, and it gave these puppies a much better shot at finding homes fast.
The puppies consisted of five boys and four girls, and they must have been through something unsavory because they were hungry and lonely. They "instantly" scarfed down puppy food and settled down to snuggle in a kennel together.
In an interview with The Dodo, Alisha Henry said:
They are just the cutest. The Avenger puppies were definitely in some dire straits [when they first got here]. They wolfed down four bowls of food before we even vetted them. They were absolutely full of worms and reeked of cigarette smoke. Poor things.
That “dire straits” feeling hits hard, just like when a man found 20 abandoned puppies trapped in a roadside cage.
Avengers-themed names for the pups included Ant-Man, Thor, Iron Man, and Thanos, to name a few! However, the pups weren't immediately ready for adoption; they had to recover from their ordeal. While it will be a few weeks before they are ready for their forever homes, we can only hope that their new families will keep their superhero-themed names. Because who doesn't love these?
Is this a worthy tip of the hat to the late Stan Lee? We think so.
“Okoye and Carol Danvers have been adopted,” Henry said. “So we still have seven more that desperately need loving homes.”
This is how we anticipate the response to the need to adopt the rest of the pup Avengers:
Before the “Avenger” puppy names, see how a husky became guardian to kittens in the wilderness.
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