Animal shelter asks 'Pokémon Go' players to take their dogs for a walk
If you find yourself walking a few kilometers to hatch eggs in Pokémon Go, you may as well do a good deed while you're at it.
Muncie Animal Shelter in Muncie, Indiana, is hopping on the game's crazy following by encouraging players to take one of their pooches out for a walk while they hunt for Pokémon on the streets.
The shelter posted the message on its Facebook page, which has since racked up over 6,400 likes and 19,000 shares at the time of writing.
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“The idea is that they take the dog on kind of an adventure for the day,” Phil Peckinpaugh, shelter director, told The Huffington Post.
Peckinpaugh says that he dreamed up the idea after seeing an influx of people in Muncie hunting Pokémon, much like everywhere else across the states this week.
“It would be great if every one of those individuals had one of our dogs with them,” said Peckinpaugh.
And it seems to be working. According to Peckinpaugh, the shelter had "a line of people" ready to take an adoptable dog on an adventure on Wednesday.
Of course, walking a shelter pup is an added responsibility, so if you do decide to "Poké and pup" (which is a phrase I just made up), just make sure you pay extra close attention to your surroundings. After all, it's only a game.
