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WELCOME TO OUR NEW WEBSITE!

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It’s hard to believe that Urgent will be 6 years old this June. What started as a small Facebook page, has grown into something that none of us imagined. We are not just a Facebook page anymore… we are a 501c3 with a growing presence on so many other sites, such as Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, as well as thousands of weekly hits on our website.

The recent Facebook changes made us think long and hard about the direction we wanted to take. We realized that we need to stop thinking of Facebook as our main platform.  Facebook changes their format so often, always forcing us to playing catch up to make sure that our dogs and cats are uploaded and on the site.  Facebook decided that if we moved a photo to a new album, the link wold become broken and all the previous shares would be lost. Facebook also made it harder to not only reach our fans, but to reach those that still don’t know about the homeless pet crisis in NYC.  The “icing on the cake” was when Facebook recently started deleting threads because they felt the content was unsecure.  We are not sure how they decided that a Youtube video was a threat, but they did, and without warning started deleting entire threads.   When that happened, we knew that we needed to secure our posts outside of Facebook and away from their reach.

Welcome to our new website!! It took months to build, and thanks to Bolddogge Interactive (an absolutely amazing web designer and site builder,) we are so proud of the result.  Starting TODAY, all animals will be “stored” on our site and the information will be fed to all the social media platforms.  The content will remain the same, and we will still have all the albums that everyone has grown accustomed to. The “TBD list” will continue to be posted nightly on all social media sites, and will have it’s own slide show on our new website! Other improvements include an album of animals in foster care, a search bar to make it easy to find whichever dog you are following, and one-click connection with the Urgent help desk on every thread.

We are confident that you will come to LOVE the new format, and the individual dog and cat posts.   We still have a few minor adjustments to make, but you can now find all the information easily, without the worry of broken links or deleted threads.

Starting today, we will NOT be loading the animals to Facebook, Twitter, or any of the other sites. Every post will be shared from our new website. We encourage you to share and comment on our site, because it will reach far beyond the Facebook community. If you have any questions or issues, please use the EMAIL URGENT at the bottom of each page.

We know this major change will take some time to get used to, but we feel strongly that everyone will come to love it.  We want to thank you for your patience and cooperation as we make the final edits, and as always, we thank you for supporting our NYC Death Row Animals!

**WE WILL STILL BE SHARING THE LISTS ON FACEBOOK, EVERY DAY. EACH ANIMAL WILL BE POSTED TO THE FB WALL. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT WHEN YOU CLICK ON THEIR PICTURE, IT WILL TAKE YOU TO THE WEBSITE POST FOR THAT ANIMAL, NOT A FACEBOOK PICTURE**

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  1. Will the urgent photos still be posted to FB every day like they are now ? Or do we have to go to the web site to see them ? Im a little confused
    Sorry 🙁

  2. ALL photos will be posted to FB… but they will not be fB photos. They will be links to the website. We will still post the list to FB every night. Again, the wall posts will be there, but instead of FB pictures, there will be links to the website

  4. Oh dear. Thats going to make sharing a lot more difficult. You might want to rethink this. When i watch my news feed i see the dogs come thru and a quick click and they are shared. Hmmmm not good

  5. Joanne Mims – this change does not effect how you share a post on FB. Just like you can share THIS post, you will be able to share all the animals.

  8. The ONLY thing that changes is when you click the picture (to see the full post,) Instead of taking you to a FB picture, it takes you to our site, where there is also a SHARE TO FB button.
    But again, when you are sharing from your news feed, or from the Urgent FB wall, NOTHING changes.

  14. Although I hate, hate, hate change, I will try my hardest to acclimate. It’s all about saving the animals and I back you guys 100%! Thank you for all you do in the name of animals!!!!!!

  15. Kudos to Urgent (and Julie) on the new website. The look is cleaner & brighter without diminishing the core call to action: fighting to reform the NYC shelter system and save the thousands of adoptable animals being needlessly destroyed each year. Facebook’s constantly changing algorithms are clearly devised and implemented by people who have no idea about rescue and the damage they have caused. Hats off to the Crew.

    • Yes, we are getting heavier traffic than anticipated. Our server (or whatever they call it) is being increased as we speak, and you should see it speed up.

  19. It’s actually easy peasy once you work with it for a while. AND it is nice to be able to share on ALL your social networks in one place. It will take some time, but it is not bad really. Just different, and you humans are creatures of habit…….

  20. Joanne Mims – we posted MULTIPLE posts to both the Urgent Part 2 – Urgent Death Row Dogs and Pets on Death Row – Urgent Death Row Cats pages today. Those are the new posts. There are no lists tonight (due to the holiday) so there will not be a TBD list on either page.

  22. I can’t get ANY of the new albums to load….it says “page not available” I use Safari….have rebooted my MAC. ****Also, the old help desk email does not work……so how do I post and refer people to the help desk. Is there a new address.

  23. Thank you for all you do. I have been following for years and hope that your success continues! I can’t imagine the amount of work- and heart that goes in to all you do!

  26. this new site is somewhat confusing and it takes a time to figure out. this time could have been used instead to look at the cats and pledge for them. Old format was very neat.

    • I agree with you 100% !! I can’t find ANYTHING on this new website…..I can’t share the whole TBD Cats album like I used to….cats and dogs are going to end up dying because we can’t get the word out by sharing them !!!! It seems each cat has to be shared individually, which I DO if there are not alot of cats on the list…..but when there are 20+ cats, it’s hard to share them individually. I found the old website format MUCH easier to navigate…..but I doubt they will change back to the old one…..

  29. People are not commenting or pledging. I’ve messaged you 16 times. PLEASE REINSTATE THE FB SITE TILL THE BUGS ARE WORKED OUT!!! DOGS WILL DIE!!!

  34. I network and share the TBD cats, and when I click on the “TBD photo”, that is all I get…..there are no to click through to see all the cats that are set to be murdered…..the way it is now, it makes it harder, if not impossible to share the whole album like I was doing…..it seems like the only way I can share them is individually, and my computer takes FOREVER to load each picture……maybe I’m the only one, but I think the old way was much better and easier to navigate, and to find the cats that I pledge on……:-(

  35. Will gladly get used to this. FB has gotten harder and harder to deal with. My “feed” isn’t a feed anymore, it’s very selective. This is much better, but still needs to be more mobile friendly over time. You guys did the right thing here.

  37. @Priscilla Carton Rothe I think this new “livefyre” was put in place as a ruse. We cannot tag our friends in order to network the animals. I guess this gives the shelters another excuse to kill more animals!

  38. This site is horrible. No one answers questions. You can’t tag friends, and I’m sure with these changes more pets are being killed. Was this the method behind the madness?

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