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All Animals in the Community Have Identification

HeARTs Speak

  • Editable Template: Straylight Savings Promotion

Human Animal Support Services

  • Keeping Pets Home and Getting Them Home: Community Chip Awareness Campaign

Maddie's Fund

  • A fresh look at microchipping can improve lifesaving

Michelson Found Animals

  • RTO During COVID-19: In-Field Strategies
  • How to improve your return-to-owner rate

Return to Home Policies and Lost/Found Techniques are Marketed to the Community

American Humane

  • If you find a lost pet

Best Friends

  • Finding lost cats with Lost Cat Finder Kim Freeman - Podcast
  • Where, oh where has my little dog gone?

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

  • Five things to do if you have lost your dog

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

  • RTH: What makes a great lost and found website
  • RTH: I lost an animal
  • RTH: I found a lost animal

Organization Embraces a Culture of Return to Home

Best Friends

  • Let’s Get Them Home - Townhall parts 1 & 2

Human Animal Support Services

  • Lost Animal Checklist

Lost Dogs of America

  • Tips for returning a found dog to the rightful owner

Organization Works with Community to Help Facilitate Return to Homes

ASPCA

  • How to Boost Return-to-Owner Rates
  • How are lost pets found?
  • Empower Owners, Engage Community to Boost RTO
  • Proactive Community Control

Best Friends

  • Lifesaving Dispatch Playbook
  • The Human Connection: save more lives by building stronger relationships in communities - Townhall
  • Community Engagement: The Lifesaving Philosophy Webinar

Cuddly

  • How to use wishlists for finder-foster programs

Technology is Used to Help Reunite Pets and Owners

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

  • Dallas Shelter Databoard

Lost Dogs of America

  • Use Facebook to Help Increase your Return to Owner Rate

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

  • RTO During COVID-19: Maximizing Social Media

PetcoLove

  • PetcoLoveLost App
  • PetcoLoveLost Resource Guide

Regulations and Laws Encourage Return to Home

The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement

  • Get Them Home and Help Them Stay There: Disaster Response & Radical RTO

Best Friends

  • Empowering Animal Field Services to be More Community-Focused

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

  • Boost your animal welfare organization's RTO rates with Animal Care Officers

Animals are Returned in the Field Rather than at the Shelter

Best Friends

  • Beyond the scanner: advanced RTO in the field techniques
  • Field RTO training playbook
  • Intake Diversion in the Field Playbook

Maddie's Fund

  • Free Online Course at Maddie's University: NACA Field Services Series: Using Tools and Equipment

National Animal Care and Control Association

  • Webinar: Advanced Return to Owner in the Field: Beyond the scanner

Other

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

  • Involving the Community Through Proactive Animal Control

Best Friends

  • Return to owner training playbook
  • Best Friends Podcast Episode 121: Return to Home Challenge with Gina Knepp
  • Cats Outside, It's Going to be OK - Townhall

Human Animal Support Services

  • Lost Pet Reunification Toolkit

Maddie's Fund

  • Maddie's® Pet Forum Resource Center
  • Proactive Return to Owner Programs
  • Finding Their Way Back Home: Increasing Return to Owner Rates

Michelson Found Animals

  • ACO Field Services RTO checklist
  • Supporting Pet Owning Residents in a Social Distancing Environment

No Place Like Home Challenge

  • No Place Like Home Huddles (2021)



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