An 11 year old girl in Ijamsville, MD is working to help pets find loving homes. She’s created her own website and invites people to email her so that she can match them up with pets in need of a home.

A sixth-grader is using Internet skills and a love for animals to pair up those looking to get rid of a pet with those looking to find one on a Web site she created herself.

Jennie Lupkin, 11, finds people looking for pets and people trying to live without them, e-mails them and eventually finds successful matches.

“Sometimes, people are trying to buy animals,” her father, Richard Lupkin, said. “She’ll suggest they try a shelter instead.”

The sixth-grader at Oakdale Middle School in Ijamsville has several pets herself: a bichon frise, a hermit crab, two birds and fish. Her father is allergic to cats or else she said she’d have one of those, too. She wants a rescue horse one day so she can put to good use the riding lessons she’s taking.

Jennie didn’t start with her own Web site; her first match came with a cat named Jazzy at the Frederick County Animal Shelter and someone on Craigslist looking for a cat. She contacted the prospective owner about Jazzy and later the match was made.

She later created http://www.freewebs.com/frederickanimalcontrol with photos and stories of the animals up for adoption.

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“The shelter seems to want me to try to find homes for cats,” she said. “Dogs usually go in a week or two.”

What a hero! Keep up the good work, Jennie! You’re making a huge difference.

About the picture: That’s what I saw the very first time I laid eyes on my dear, sweet Lydia. She’s an absolute gem, and there are many, many more out there who need homes just as much as she did.

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