An animal shelter in Muncie, Indiana, is using Pokémon Go madness to get players to volunteer to walk dogs at the shelter.

Phil Peckinpaugh, the director of the Muncie Animal Shelter, hatched the idea out of his own love for the game. After he watched large swaths of people in his town wandering around aimlessly, and he played it with his daughter, he knew something good could come out of this.



“The exercise and stimulation for the dogs is the first priority,” he explained. “If we can get volunteers and adoptions, that’s been the number one goal. Always.”