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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.

10 Tips to Promote Senior Pets

Prospective adopters often overlook senior pets in favor of younger animals. Here are 10 tips gleaned from animal welfare organizations to help get older pets adopted.

Dog Enrichment Resources

Shelter enrichment programs help reduce stress and decrease hyper-arousal, depression, and obsessive/compulsive behavior.

Leveraging Facebook to Promote Your Big Adoption Event

Use these tried-and-true tips to capitalize on Facebook and find more homes for animals.

12 Technology Tips for Virtual Meet-and-Greets

Use these technology tips to make sure your virtual meet-and-greets are glitch-free.

They Did It: Reinvented How They Talk About Behavior in Shelter Animals

Two experts provide examples and tools for messaging behavior in shelter animals that can be easily implemented into daily operations.

Research Comparing Costs of Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR) and Euthanasia

Learn about the relative costs of trap-euthanize vs trap-neuter-return and when they can decrease the population of community cats!

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.

Pets as Gifts Can Safely Increase Holiday Adoptions

Learn how promoting pets as gifts can get more shelter animals adopted using research-backed techniques that save lives.

They Did It: Built a Successful Social Media Presence to Adopt Out More Horses

Learn best practices for using social media to promote equine adoptions from New Vocations Racehorse Adoption Program.

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