That Ikea futon would look a lot better with a dog on it.
Luckily, a few select Ikeas will now be rolling out a service that allows you to adopt one while you're browsing display rooms.
In May, a Singapore-based Ikea partnered with two animal shelters to form "Home For Hope," a charitable initiative that places life-size cardboard cut-outs of dogs in various Ikea display rooms. The idea behind it was to get customers to imagine what their room could look like with a dog in it and then adopt that dog.
On each cut-out is a tag with a QR code that shoppers can scan to learn more about each of the dogs displayed.
An Ikea store in Tempe, Arizona is now the first US location to join this project and has already signed off on adoptions through the Arizona Humane Society for all six of the dogs displayed in the store.
You can learn more about this emerging effort to give pups a new home here.
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