Below is a growing list of helpful resources for the No Place Like Home Challenge. We've organized each resource into the 8 common Return to Home practices (with the eighth being "other"). Feel free to download and use as needed. We hope you find them helpful!
HeARTs Speak
Human Animal Support Services
Maddie's Fund
Michelson Found Animals
American Humane
HeARTs Speak
- Found pet photo tips
- Editable Template: Lost & Found Social Graphic Suite
- Editable Template: Lost & Found Pet Community Action Guide
- Editable Template: Community Pet Resource Guide
Lost Dogs of America
Maddie's Fund
- Increase Return to Owner Rates in Your Organization
- Why it's important to empower your community to help lost pets
Michelson Found Animals
Lost Dogs of America
Adoptimize
- What is Adoptimize?
- How to use the Adoptimize app to automate great pet photos in seconds to increase RTH rates
- Case studies that prove good photos drive significant financial savings for shelters
Tom Kremer
Lost Dogs of America
Maddie's Fund
- Using Technology to Increase Return to Owner
- How animal welfare organizations can use technology to reunite lost pets with their families
Michelson Found Animals
The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement
Humane Society of the United States
- Radical return-to-owner: Innovative programming to keep families together
- Return-to-owner: How will you re-evaluate your shelter's RTO policy to tell a different story?
Maddie's Fund
American Pets Alive!
- Return to owner: Expanded Community Chat
- The Future of Helping Lost Dogs
- Radical RTO: A conversation between Gina Knepp and Tawny Hammond
ASPCA
Best Friends
Maddie's Fund
Michelson Found Animals