Adoption

Yes, we can adopt our way out - and stop unnecessary euthanasia - through innovative adoption programs and promotions! These experienced shelter directors and veterinarians can help you build an effective adoption program based on best practices with "pet-adopter matchmaking" and creative marketing strategies.

• Seniors and Shelters – Looking After Geriatric Pets in Shelters and Getting Them Adopted

  October 2011
  Dr. Susan Krebsbach, veterinary specialist in behavior with over 20 years’ experience working with animal shelters, talks at the Purdue/Maddie’s Shelter Medicine Symposium 2011 about senior pets in animal shelters and how to get them adopted.  Read More

• Marketing Treatable Pets - Every Creature Has a Story

  May 2011
  Get the scoop on using everything but the kitchen sink to creatively market harder-to-place pets. (On second thought, maybe you'll be using the kitchen sink, too.) You'll have your local news media eating out of your hands – we guarantee it!  Read More

• Saving Treatable Pets - From Skeptic to Believer

  May 2011
  There's nothing like actually doing something to convince you that it can be done! That's what Erie County, New York, found out when they set out to save all their community's treatable pets, and saved 65 percent of them in a single year. Cats with chronic urinary tract infections, pets with diabetes – and yes, a paraplegic pit bull. They did it, and so can you.  Read More

• Avoiding the Three Biggest Social Media Mistakes

  May 2011
  Find out how to use the power of storytelling to help treatable pets, and avoid the three biggest social media mistakes.  Read More

• Increasing Pet Adoptions

  May 2010
  Perhaps no organization markets their pets better than the Nevada Humane Society. How? By setting goals and celebrating successes, by making it easy for people to fall in love with a shelter pet, and by getting the word out and the adopters in to the shelter. Don't miss the 32 adoption promotions highlighted in this presentation.  Read More