Many of the animals the SF SPCA creatively named after 49ers players have already been adopted — and will “watch the big game from their forever homes.”
Ahead of tomorrow’s big Sports Ball Event (read: the Super Bowl LVIII), some cats and dogs looking for their evermore domiciles were given a cheeky, timely signal boost on social media, pairing their 49ers-inspired names with adorable facts about them.
“Are you ready for the big game,” reads a caption for an Instagram post by the San Francisco SPCA in the wake of tomorrow’s Super Bowl between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs.
The animal shelter, which experienced a boom in adoptions amid the more isolating days of the pandemic, like other pet sanctuaries, is SF’s largest animal shelter; it’s also among the oldest still-operating rescues in the country, being founded in 1868.
On the shelter’s website, nearly three dozen cats and dogs remain adoptable at the nonprofit 250 Florida Street adoption center — with all their “staring players” looking for their forever homes.
“Our starting players are warmed up and ready to be added to your home,” the caption continues, nodding at the quirky, adorable, humourous “stats” shelter staff gave them. For example: McCatfrey, a play on 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey’s last name, is described as a 5-month-old feline who stands about two tacos tall. His favorite position? “Loaf.”
Three-month-old Kittle is a similar height, standing about “one pineapple bed tall”; Deebo’s stature is more gauzy — he’s just a very good boy who loves zooming about; one-year-old Trent is a hype man, but doesn’t less his 14lb weight fool you, because his personality is as big as 6’ 5” offensive tackle his name is inspired from.
And this creative marketing ploy to help find some of these fur babies in their permanent homes seems to have worked. According to a follow-up comment by the SF SCPCA, Purrdy, Bosa, Kittle, and McCatfrey are all set to be “watching the game in their new forever homes!”
“Check out their stats and let us know how they stack up,” concludes the shelter on the Meta-owned social media website. “You know they’ll be faithful.”
But the question remains: Will they be just as fixated on the game as they will be scanning for Taylor Swift moments on the Jumbotron?
(P.S.: The SF SPCA is still waiving adoption fees on all adult animals, sentient adorable quadrupeds who are 5 months and older.)
// For more information on the SF SPCA’s adoptable dogs and cats, click here and here, respectively.
