My Furry Valentine is Greater Cincinnati's Largest Annual Pet Adoption Event.
Conducted over a weekend, it is a great chance for people to meet adoptable animals from numerous local shelters & rescues all under one roof and adopt their new best friend. We are so excited to see everyone at the 2024 My Furry Valentine Adoption event taking place at the Sharonville Convention Center on February 17th and 18th, 2023. We will have hundreds of adoptable animals under one roof, all
available for adoption and waiting for their forever families. This is a family-focused and fun event supporting our community animal rescue and adoption initiatives.
01/09/2026
𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 4 𝐩𝐮𝐩𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐮𝐩 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦. We recently highlighted these dogs, but wanted to share a little more about each one as they continue to wait for their people.
💙 Piccolo (in a foster home)
• Looking for a single animal home
• Best fit for kids 12+
• Loves toys
• Appears potty trained
• Enjoys exploring and snuggling at home
💙 Basilisk (at 3949 Colerain Ave)
• Playful, strong, cuddly, and full of love
• Looking for a teen and adult home
• Does well with other dogs in playgroup
• Meet and greets recommended
• Needs a home where he can feel secure
💙 Harrigan (in a foster home)
• Loves walks, toys, and especially hot dogs
• Knows sit and paw
• Working on down, place, and wait
• His favorite thing is spending time with people
💙 Tute (at 3949 Colerain Ave)
• Showed signs of being potty and crate trained while in foster
• Walks nicely on leash
• Great manners around the house
• Once he feels safe, he loves cuddles and being close to his person
• Polite with adults and enjoys a calm, predictable routine
These dogs are ready. They just need someone willing to take that step. Come meet them and help make this the weekend they finally go home. 🏠✨
01/07/2026
🐾 Rescue Partner Spotlight: PAWS Humane Society 🐾
We’re excited to welcome PAWS Humane Society to the My Furry Valentine adoption event! ❤️
PAWS is dedicated to encouraging the humane treatment of animals by helping unwanted pets find loving, forever homes through adoption, while also creating lasting change through education and community resources.
Their mission-focused approach helps ensure animals don’t just find homes, but families that are prepared to love and care for them for life. We’re honored to partner with PAWS and can’t wait for you to meet their amazing adoptable pets at MFV!
01/06/2026
✨ Vendor Spotlight: Evendale-Blue Ash Pet Hospital ✨
For years, Evendale-Blue Ash Pet Hospital has stood beside My Furry Valentine as a trusted partner and advocate for animal health. Their support goes far beyond the event — it reflects a deep belief in preventative care, innovation, and compassionate medicine. We are excited to welcome them back this year as a supporting vendor.
From routine wellness and holistic care to advanced surgery, dental health, pain management, ultrasound, therapeutic laser treatments, and acupuncture, their experienced team delivers thoughtful, individualized care at every stage of a pet’s life.
01/05/2026
🐾 Vendor Spotlight: Jay Bird’s Pet Training 🐾
We’re excited to welcome first time participating vendor, Jay Bird’s Pet Training to the My Furry Valentine adoption event!
Jay Bird’s focuses on empowering pet parents — teaching owners how to train their own dogs using positive reinforcement and natural behavior modification. Their approach is rooted in understanding how dogs think and learn, helping create stronger bonds, better communication, and long-term success at home.
Whether you’re welcoming a new pet or looking to strengthen your relationship with your current dog, stop by their booth to learn how compassionate, science-based training can make all the difference.
We’re honored to welcome Louie’s Legacy Animal Rescue to the My Furry Valentine adoption event! ❤️
Louie’s Legacy is a positive, professional 501(c)(3) rescue that works closely with community and shelter partners to save more animals, more efficiently. Through their incredible network of supportive foster homes, they provide temporary care and compassion — then thoughtfully match each pet with a fantastic forever family.
We can’t wait for you to meet the amazing animals they’ll be bringing and the dedicated people behind this life-saving work.
01/02/2026
🐶🐱 Looking for a powerful way to grow awareness for your business in 2026?
My Furry Valentine connects local businesses with thousands of engaged pet lovers during one of the region’s most anticipated animal-focused events. Becoming a vendor means more than visibility — it means being part of a community that truly cares.
🎆🐾 Happy New Year’s Eve from the My Furry Valentine family! 🐾🎆
As you ring in the New Year, we hope your celebrations are joyful and safe. Wherever the night takes you, remember — someone special is waiting for you at home. ❤️
Your dog doesn’t care about midnight champagne toasts… they just want you home safe. 🐶🚪
Wishing everyone a wonderful start to the New Year filled with love, compassion, and lots of tail wags. See you in 2026! ✨
12/30/2025
🐾 Welcome, League for Animal Welfare! 🐾
We’re proud to welcome back the League for Animal Welfare as a participating organization for My Furry Valentine 2026!
The League for Animal Welfare is a privately funded, non-profit organization providing critical care for unwanted, lost, and neglected cats and dogs throughout Greater Cincinnati. With the support of dedicated staff, volunteers, foster families, and friends, the League provides medical and behavioral care for more than 1,500 cats and dogs each year, helping them find loving forever homes. ❤️
Beyond sheltering, the League addresses the root causes of companion animal homelessness through impactful community programs—including a pet food pantry, spay/neuter voucher program, vaccine clinics, and veterinary assistance—ensuring pets and their families get the support they need to stay together.
Their mission is clear and compassionate: to reduce the number of homeless cats and dogs in Greater Cincinnati through a no-kill shelter and programs that promote responsible pet care. We’re honored to help spotlight the lifesaving work they do every day.
✨ Come meet their adoptable pets February 21–22 at Spooky Nook Sports! ✨
12/29/2025
🩸🐶 Welcome, Animal Care Center Blood Bank! 🐶🩸
We’re excited to welcome back the Animal Care Center Blood Bank as a participating organization for My Furry Valentine 2026!
Did you know dogs need blood transfusions just like humans? And that blood has to come from somewhere. Animal Care Center Blood Bank is the only non-profit canine blood bank in the tri-state area, giving healthy dogs the chance to become real-life heroes by saving the lives of other dogs in need. ❤️
🐾 Canine donor requirements:
• Between 1–7 years old to start
• Weighs at least 40 pounds
• Current on vaccines and on heartworm, flea & tick prevention year-round
• In good overall health (some medications may disqualify—just ask!)
• Only 3–4 donations per year
In addition to the incredible feeling of helping save lives, donor families receive meaningful benefits including complimentary blood work, complimentary ER office visits, and more.
📍 6995 East Kemper Road, Cincinnati, OH 45249
📞 513.530.0911
Come learn more and see how your dog can be part of something truly lifesaving at My Furry Valentine 2026!
12/27/2025
We received a heartwarming note from a past adopter, Mike Putt, who wrote, "I want to thank you for all you do. 13 years ago this February, my brand new wife gave me the best gift ever!!! A trip to your annual event. It was there we met Gapper. The cutest Chihuahua -Beagle ever. He had been neglected for 5 years and was wearing diapers and scared to death. We took him home and spent years trying to "save" him. Eventually he saw we were good people. Yesterday, at the age 18, we he crossed the rainbow bridge. Now, I keep thinking what would have happened to him if you did not hold this event. I dare say you also "saved" him!!! I will forever be grateful to you for 12 amazing years with a kind and gentle soul like Gapper's."
The real thanks goes to Mike and his wife for adopting Gapper and giving him such a great life. And, to the rescue who worked hard to get Gapper to safety and helped connect him to the Putt family by bringing him to the My Furry Valentine event. Join us this year on February 21st and 22nd at Spooky Nook and build a story of love just like the Putt family did with Gapper.
12/27/2025
So no one needs their pitbull fixed for FREE in January????
Message our page if you do.
*Offering for the Cincinnati area.
12/26/2025
🐾 Welcome, Montgomery County Animal Resource Center! 🐾
We’re proud to welcome the Montgomery County Animal Resource Center as a participating organization for My Furry Valentine 2026!
As the managed intake facility for stray dogs in Montgomery County, the Animal Resource Center plays a vital role in public safety and humane animal welfare. Their team focuses on reuniting lost dogs with their families whenever possible, while also supporting dog adoptions, fostering, volunteering, and strong community partnerships. Guided by a mission of serving both pets and people, they work tirelessly to connect animals to loving forever homes and strengthen the community they serve. ❤️
We’re honored to have them join us and to help highlight the meaningful impact they make every day across Montgomery County.
✨ Come meet their adoptable dogs February 21–22 at Spooky Nook Sports! ✨
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My Furry Valentine is committed to the vision of a world where there is no more shelter euthanasia. A world where there is no longer a need for a mega pet adoption event. A time when we become a “No Kill” nation! But until that day comes, we will continue our efforts to educate our community about the importance of adoption while providing a platform to connect animals in need of a home with people willing to give them one. In doing so, we will be working alongside our rescue, shelter and other animal welfare counterparts who are implementing spay and neuter, foster care, trap-neuter-return, foster networks, pet retention, and other comprehensive adoption programs, all with the ultimate goal of one day becoming a “No Kill” nation. With every event My Furry Valentine hosts, and every animal adopted, we are one step closer to that goal.
Every day, an average of 9,000 cats and dogs are euthanized in shelters across the United States. In fact, euthanasia is the leading cause of untimely death for healthy dogs and cats in our country. Each year, 7.3 million animals enter shelters nationwide, patiently, hopefully, waiting to catch the eye of one of the 12 million families who will bring a new pet into their home. But many Americans still get their new pets from places other than rescues and shelters, and so an estimated 3-4 million animals die unnecessarily every year.
We can change that!
If just 1 out of every 5 people bringing a new pet into their family were to adopt from a shelter or rescue, the Humane Society of the United States estimates that not one single healthy cat or dog would lose his or her life in a shelter. While these statistics don’t tell the whole story, they hopefully reinforce the notion that by welcoming an adoptable animal into your family, you’re doing more than saving one life – you’re helping us rewrite the script for all homeless animals.
Since our inception in 2012, My Furry Valentine has grown in size and popularity. It is through the help of countless numbers of friends, colleagues, and volunteers that My Furry Valentine has become one of the largest animal adoption events in the country! The hundreds of adoptions that take place during our event give homeless animals the chance they deserve at joining a loving home and family.
The My Furry Valentine events are only made possible through our host, sponsors, funders, donations from individuals, participating vendors and business donors, advertising/PR/media partners, our event volunteers, and our rescue and shelter partners who work tirelessly each and every day throughout the year, with an unyielding passion and commitment to the cause, the My Furry Valentine Organizing Committee who volunteer thousands of hours into bringing the adoption events to the Cincinnati community, and most of all, our event attendees who come to support and adopt.
Please visit the My Furry Valentine event to learn more about what we are all about, support our efforts, and find your new best friend.
