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Mutt-i-grees® are getting library cards!

Photo courtesy of North Shore Animal League

School’s out—but the fun of learning never stops, thanks to more than 700 libraries across the country that have implemented Mutt-i-grees® in the Library, an initiative of the Mutt-i-grees Curriculum. A unique social-emotional learning program, the curriculum is the joint project of North Shore Animal League America, in Port Washington, NY, and Yale University, in New Haven, CT.

The program taps into kids’ natural affinity for animals to support social and emotional development and promote skills like empathy, compassion, decision-making, and cooperation that are essential for school and life success.

Every lesson and activity incorporates themes about Mutt-i-grees — shelter pets who are already adopted or still awaiting new homes. The goal is to build calm, confident caring kids who are tuned in to the needs of rescue animals and the joys and responsibilities of adoption.

New York Public Library branches across the boroughs are now joining the Mutt-i-grees in the Library initiative and introducing children, teens, and families to the importance of shelter pet adoption. During the coming months, the Mutt-i-grees team from Animal League America and Yale University will collaborate with librarians at nearly a dozen sites in the city’s library system to offer Mutt-i-grees training.

Lauren Bradley, young adult librarian at the George Bruce Branch Library in Harlem, says that Mutt-i-grees programs have generated the highest attendance of children and teens that she’s seen in a long time.

For more information about the program, please visit education.muttigrees.org/library