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7 Ideas to Promote Your Shelter Animals on Black Friday

Get more animals adopted just in time for the holidays with these Black Friday promotion ideas.

4 Tips for Prepping Animals Before a Big Adoption Event

Preparing your animals for a large-scale event is a big undertaking. Use these four tried-and-true tips from your colleagues in the field.

They Did It: Surprise Kitten Visit

Forget fruit baskets—give the gift of kittens instead! This Illinois shelter showed up at local supporting businesses with kitty thank-yous in tow.

Meow for Now: Foster Family Recruitment and Retention

Get tips for recruiting and retaining foster caregivers to create or enhance your kitten foster program.

Doggy Day Outs, Field Trips & Short-Term Fosters: Reducing Stress in Shelter Dogs While Increasing Volunteers and Adoptions

Discover simple and effective strategies to involve your community in volunteer outings that help reduce stress for shelter dogs and increase adoptions.

How to Get Great Photos of Your Available Animals

Ten tips for taking quality photos that'll get your adoptables out the door and into loving homes.

How to Create Electronic Certificates of Veterinary Inspection

Learn how to easily convert your health certificates, or certificates of veterinary inspection (CVIs), from paper to electronic forms.

Meet-and-Greet Experiences that May Impact Dog and Cat Adoption

Discover dozens of research-based factors that can increase—or decrease—a shelter animal’s likelihood of getting adopted as a result of an in-person or virtual meet-and-greet.

Processing Adoptions for Offsite Cats

Want to reduce length of stay for cats? Here’s how to handle the adoption process for offsite cats.

Meow for Now: Kitten Health, Behavior, & Wellness

Elevate your kitten foster program with kitten health and behavior resources for staff and foster families, including intake protocols and downloads for determining a kitten’s age and tips on kitten socialization.

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