Improve Animal Shelter Kennel Cards & Signage with Customizable Templates

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Easily create clear, professional animal kennel cards with our free, customizable template designed specifically for animal shelters, rescues and veterinary clinics. These printable dog and cat kennel cards help staff, volunteers and adopters quickly see essential information, such as medical status, behavior notes, feeding instructions, experiences with other animals and children and other adoption details. Using clear and easy-to-tailor kennel cards can improve communications, animal care, disease control, counseling and placement outcomes, leading to a smoothers and more transparent experience for people and a smoother (and hopefully quicker) length of stay for animals.

Animal shelters regularly deal with overcrowding, understaffing and operational barriers. By making it easier for adopters to find potential matches and highlighting long-term residents, you can:

Increase adoptions while also reducing adoption wait times
Reduce length of stay
Improve the adoption experience for both staff and adopters by making information readily available
Facilitate better foster matches

Now You Try

Get ready to improve your kennel cards and signage to help adopters and fosters find matches with these easy steps:

Identify which characteristics are most requested from potential adopters and fosters
Adjust intake counseling to effectively gather animal information
Speak with staff and volunteers to identify what would be the smoothest process to add and maintain the characteristic cards on kennels
Download our colorful, eye-catching designs and tailor them for your shelter to make it easier for people to quickly learn about an animal
Determine if the cards should be translated into additional languages
Start with your longest residents first, then expand to all animals
Consider if this change can pinpoint opportunities to clean up your shelter’s data and animal bios
Engage volunteers and animal care staff in adding characteristic cards since they are probably the most familiar with the animals