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CNJ staff photo: Emily Crowe Animal Control Officer Carrina Hungerford tends to a dog found outside Clovis High School.

By Emily Crowe CNJ staff writer ecrowe@cnjonline.com

Thanks to the power of social media, more animals than ever in Clovis are being saved from certain death.

According to Animal Control Supervisor Marty Martinez, the Clovis shelter allows local animal rescue groups to snap and post photos of the shelters dogs and cats and post them on Facebook.

While adoption numbers ebb and flow through the years, the shelter saw an increase in the number of dogs and cats adopted in the past few years, with 488 total in 2011; 656 in 2012; and 691 last year.

Martinez said social media is the driving force behind the increased number of adoptions at the shelter.

Social media is completely new, its a whole new ball game, he said. Its just using it properly, and thats going to help.

Tami Hamilton, foster director for Hope Defined Animal Rescue, said the organization also sends photos of the animals to its partners in Colorado.

They then come back and say I want that dog, she said. At that point, I come in, I pull the dog and I put it into foster care. We get it fully vetted, minus the spay and neuter, which the other rescue does. Then we do transports every two weeks to Colorado.

Animals taken in and adopted out by Hope Defined are counted in the shelters adoption tally each year.

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