A pizza shop in New York is making sure you don’t just toss out your pizza box once you’re done! It has come up with the unique idea of putting up pictures of adoptable shelter animals on its pizza boxes to encourage people to give these adorable pups a loving home.<\/p>\n
The idea came after the Just Pizza & Wings Co. franchise owner Mary Alloy began volunteering with the Niagara Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA). An SPCA event coordinator, Kimberly LaRussa, texted Alloy one night with the suggestion to put the dogs\u2019 pictures on the pizza boxes.<\/p>\n
“Kimberley texted me one night and was like, \u2018Hey, what would you think about putting pictures of the dogs on pizza boxes?\u2019 and I just couldn\u2019t wait,\u201d Alloy said. \u201cWe are all animal lovers here, so I got permission from the franchise to do it and immediately got to work.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Friday, customers began receiving their pizza pies with photos of adoptable pups attached to boxes\u2014and the story also went viral.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve had a tremendous amount of interest and support from the community and beyond since the story went viral on Friday,\u201d LaRussa told CNN. \u201cMany people want to order a pizza just to get the shelter dog photo, other pizzerias have offered to put flyers on their pizza boxes, and so many people are tagging their friends and family.\u201d<\/p>\n