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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.

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.

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.

5 Tips for Marketing Adult Cats Effectively

It’s easy for potential adopters to overlook adult cats for cute kittens. Use these five tips to help your adult cats stay in the spotlight.

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.

Refresh Your Marketing for Long-Term Shelter Animals

Take these steps to review and refresh adoption marketing to find placement for longer-stay shelter animals.

They Did It: Decreased Length of Stay with Post-Adoption Spay/Neuter Contracts

Learn how 1 shelter used post-adoption spay/neuter contracts to get pets into homes faster and open space for more animals in need.

Technology Resources for Virtual Meet-and-Greets and Adoption Processing

When conducting virtual adoptions, consider this overview of technological needs, including shelter software, electronic document signing, and web conferencing.

Advocating for Meaningful Animal Welfare Policies Through Storytelling

Storytelling is a powerful way to showcase your lifesaving efforts and motivate lawmakers to remove barriers to keeping pets and people together.

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.

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