While scrolling Facebook from a small town in central Maine, Jenna Snowman-Caley ran across photos of dogs up for adoption at an animal shelter in Atlanta. They were just hours away from euthanasia.

A few phone calls later, a 1 1/2-year-old Cane Corso Mastiff mix named Diamond from Atlanta’s LifeLine Animal Project was on her way up north.

“I wanted to try to help a dog in need rather than going to a local place where we have a lot less of that sort of issue,” she said.

Social media has provided that help, transforming the dog adoption process at LifeLine, where animals have to be put down each week because of shelter overpopulation. The dogs have gone viral on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook, reaching families across the country who hear the shelters’ desperate pleas online.

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