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Marketing Checklist for Animal Shelters and Rescues

Use this marketing checklist to make sure your adoptable dogs and cats are getting maximum exposure to potential adopters.

How to Throw a Shelter Kitten Shower

These kitten shower ideas are intended to make kitten season a bit easier, help you recruit foster families—and bring some fun to your community.

Tips for Socializing a Puppy

Follow these two creative tips for socializing puppies during periods of social distancing.

Turn your Foster Caregivers into Expert Marketers

Use these resources to move more animals directly from foster homes to adoptive homes by training your foster caregivers to be expert marketers.

They Did It: Doggy Day Out

Read about one agency's Doggy Day Out program that lets volunteers take dogs on trips of their choosing like hikes, beach trips, dinners and even sleepovers.

How to Host A Virtual Adoption Event

Learn how to use social media to host fun virtual adoption events for animals who are in foster homes or don’t show well at the shelter.

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.

Barn Cat Programs that Work

Learn how two agencies provided alternative living arrangements for hundreds of cats in barns, warehouses and factories

Foster Care Contact Sheet

Animal Rescue League of Boston uses this form to help ensure their fosters can reach them 24/7. You can download a copy right here.

How to Start or Elevate an Adoption Ambassadors Program

Exciting things can happen when shelters and rescues empower foster parents to market and directly adopt out their own foster dogs! Learn Adoption Ambassadors step-by-step.

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