I created a new profile field, then edited the post_bit legacy and now once that field is filled out by a member, it will show up in the area under the avatar. So now my members can fill in that field and that lets everyone that they have adopted something. People then know to view that profile to see what that person has adopted. I made the field big enough to have a bit of a description of what they have adopted (what stage it's in, etc.)
If anyone is interested, I can give you the code to do this.