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During MTV’s Video Music Awards last night, Miley Cyrus brought international attention to youth homelessness in Los Angeles by having a homeless young man accept her award for video of the year. (Way to go, Miley!)

During tonight’s Emmy Awards, the Shelter Pet Project is also hoping to bring worldwide attention to another homelessness problem: the millions of pets in shelters.

Nominees and attendees are being asked to talk about their favorite rescued pets, and to share them on social media with the hashtag #shelterpetlove.

The mission of the Shelter Pet Project is to make shelters the first place potential adopters go to when looking to get a new pet. On Friday, a pre-Emmys “secret room event,” featuring free swag for invited guests and their pets, benefited both the Shelter Pet Project and the Humane Society of the United States.

Tonight the Shelter Pet Project will be liveblogging the Emmy Awards telecast, which kicks off at 5 p.m. on NBC, on its Tumblr account. It will also post updates on Twitter (@shelterpets) and Instagram (@shelterpetproject).

If you’d like to see your favorite Emmy Awards attendees featured, you’re asked to tweet them and ask that they share stories of their favorite shelter pets, using the hashtag #shelterpetlove. (Bryan Cranston’s Twitter is @BryanCranston, just FYI.)

You are also welcome share a picture and story of your own rescued pet using the #shelterpetlove hashtag.

Good luck to all the Emmy nominees, and, more importantly, to all the shelter pets!

Photo via Tumblr

Perhaps taking a clue from BarkBuddy, an app that matches homeless dogs with people looking to adopt a new pet, pups from a New York City shelter are now being featured on the popular Tinder dating app.

Three interns at the ad agency BHH came up with the idea while participating in a competition to create a viral campaign.

“People strictly go to Tinder to find love, go there to find relationships and companionship,” Alexis Mood, one of the interns, told Adweek. “These dogs have something to give.”

Tinder requires users to have a Facebook account, so Social Tees Animal Rescue, a no-kill shelter, created pages for 10 of their homeless dogs. And since Tinder doesn’t allow profiles for children, the shelter had to fib about the dogs’ ages — for example, 9-week-old Vilma is instead “26.”

The interns added the dogs’ profiles to Tinder July 31 with bios like, “Your doghouse or mine?” and “Roses are grey, violets are grey, and everything is grey because I’m a dog.”

In less than a week, 2,700 matches were found (although only one dog has been adopted so far).

Adweek reports that some Tinder users were confused by dogs suddenly appearing as potential matches.

“LMAO why are there abandoned dogs popping up on #Tinder???” one user tweeted.

Tinder users who “swipe right” to express interest will be provided with adoption information. For those looking for a shorter-term hookup, the dogs are available for fostering, or for being taken for walks.

Mood didn’t say whether her team won the BHH competition (how could they not?!), but she did tell myfox8.com that they will soon be adding more dog profiles to Tinder.