Features
NEW! Customized Pet List Scroller
Are your pets looking their very best? Show them off all over the web using our new Customized Pet List Scroller. The Scroller allows your pets to be posted everywhere – and involves very little work! Approach your staff, volunteers and supporters to help you promote your pet list by posting it on their blogs, etc. Take me to the Pet List Scroller.
Petfinder and Animal Rescue Site Shelter+ Challenge
There will be a new winner each week until July 26, so now’s the time to get your community involved! Click HERE to cast your vote and visit this LINK for promotional tools to let people know about the Challenge!
Weekly Challenge Winners:
Week 11: Crash's Landing Cat Rescue & Placement Center in Grand Rapids, MI
Note for PetPoint Users
If your shelter uses PetPoint Software, please see this important note about the automatic export of pets to Petfinder.
Promote Your Pets beyond Petfinder
Featured Pet Module
Any Web page can feature adoptable pets, just as we do on the Petfinder.com homepage. Click here to access a file that you can take to local businesses to get them to target your pets. Or, tell them to visit our Featured Pet Module page. This module features one pet at a time. You can specifiy that the module draw from the pet list of one adoption group or many.
From Our Library
Basics of a Successful Adoption Program
It is the responsibility of the animal shelter to seek permanent, responsible homes for the adoptable animals placed in their custody. To that end, shelters need to formulate written policies and guidelines that will be followed when processing adoptions.
While the majority of adoption guidelines are in fact just that, they are still items that must be considered prior to making an adoption decision. It is not effective to rely solely on the individual discretion of the adoption counselor.
It is impossible to act in the best interest of the animals if there are no guidelines. Animals should not be adopted just to prevent euthanasia or haphazardly without forethought of the animal's welfare.
Acting as the temporary guardian of an animal and making a "correct" determination about adoption placement is a difficult task (continued...)
Great Pet Pic - Meet Missy
Thanks, FL748!
Weekly Report from Petfinder
Dear Petfinder.com members,
Petfinder is going to celebrate our first ever "Adopt-a-Less-Adoptable-Pet Day" on August 12th.
Get ready - we are going to help you shine a spotlight on your harder-to-place pets. Please share your experience with what we are affectionately calling "Less Adoptable" pets by completing the survey questions HERE.
In mid-July we will provide you with a Petfinder member resource page so that you can join us in the celebration and involve your own community. We will share the collective results of our survey questions, provide you with a customizable press release, printable flyer and information to share with adopters.
Then on August 12th, we can all focus on letting adopters know why some of your harder to place pets might be a great addition to their family.
Have a great adoption week. –K
Pet Stats for Last Week
Total rabbits posted on Petfinder: 5,577
Views of rabbits on Petfinder: 109,076
SOURCE: Petfinder Pet Stats Browser
Engage Petfinder Visitors
Sponsor-a-Pet Program
Use your Pet Notes to raise money for your organization! If your group has 501c3 status or is a municipal shelter with a designated donation fund, please click here to apply.
Volunteer-finder
Search a database of thousands of Petfinder visitors who would like to help. This is a searchable database where you define the kind of volunteer you're looking for and then see a list of people who match those skills in your region. Click here to search.
Invite Petfinder Visitors to Your Events
Make sure your fundraising events, yappy hours, dog walks, and adoption days are in our event calendar where thousands of people go to find a pet-friendly way to spend their day.
Places to Be
Attend an Adoption Options Workshop
Announcing Adoption Options dates for 2009! We've brought together some of the most popular presentations and speakers in animal welfare and mixed them with plenty of breaks and networking opportunities.
Adoption Options Stops for 2009
Animal Welfare Conference Calendar
Feel like you're the last to know what is going on? Not any more! We're proud to introduce the Petfinder.com Conference Calendar just for Animal Welfare Pros. Now you can find upcoming training events as well as special celebrations.
