Throughout the year, we partner with innovative organizations that are doing groundbreaking work to increase dog adoptions, including our annual Dogs rule.TM grant recipient, to create toolkits that showcase their work. Here, we re making all our toolkits available in once place.
Created in partnership with Kristen Hassen of Outcomes for Pets, our latest resource is focused on fostering, arguably the single most important intervention to save dogs’ lives by reducing length of stay and preparing dogs for adoption. The toolkit shares in-depth knowledge and insights on building a foster-centric shelter model, while offering strategies to optimize the volunteer recruitment, onboarding, and fostering process. Read it here.
Created in partnership with Kristen Hassen of Outcome for Pets, PEDIGREE Foundation shares its latest best practice toolkit, Traveling Tails: A guide to effective dog transport programs. This toolkit is a brand-new resource designed to help animal welfare professionals and anyone else who wants to learn the basics of dog transport. The Traveling Tails toolkit is filled with impactful tips to help shelters and rescue organizations establish transport programs, connect to transport networks, and ensure sustainable success. It also covers how transport can play a beneficial role in improving positive outcomes for pets. Read more here.
Created in partnership with the San Diego Humane Society, a DOGS RULE. grant recipient, “Welcome Committee: Helping Dogs Transition to the Shelter” delves into strategies and practices shelters can use to enhance the welfare of dogs from their very first moment in animal shelters. The Welcome Committee initiative was created to address the unique challenges faced by dogs experiencing fear, anxiety and stress in the shelter. The toolkit outlines the comprehensive approach the initiative takes, including multiple departments from Admissions and Operations Leadership to Animal care, Behavior & Training and Volunteer Engagement. Further, the toolkit explores the program’s core components, like enriched housing, additional enrichment activities, and focused, practical behavior plans. Read more here.
In this toolkit, developed by Kristen Hassen, you’ll hear from the shelters and rescues who are increasing dog adoptions through innovative adoption and foster programs, events, and incentives. They provide concrete, easy-to-implement ideas to get more dogs into homes faster – a recipe book of real solution that can be implemented without a lot of time or resources. Read more here.
In this toolkit, developed by Kristen Hassen, you’ll find common practices and policies that are keeping animals stuck in shelters, easy changes you can make to speed up your dog flow, the WIRC model of customer service (welcome, inform, respect, celebrate), how to ask for and accept help, and how to get your community on board. You’ll have access to examples from real-life shelters who are having adoption success, even in this difficult moment. The toolkit is designed for all levels of staff and volunteers. Read more here.
This toolkit provides an overview of Human Animal Support Services, a new, community-centered approach to animal services that focuses first on keeping pets and people together, even in tough times. In this system, the ultimate goal is that the only animals who come into the animal shelter are the ones who truly need to be there, while others are served in their homes and communities. Read more here.
This toolkit provides tips to create eye-catching, current and positive personalities for adoptable animals, using visually appealing, interactive kennel cards. These cards use unique QR codes and eye-catching personality traits to help animals stand out to prospective adopters. Read more here.
This toolkit highlights resources developed to enhance interactions with potential fosters and adopters, as well as existing adopters. The resources include compatibility matching quizzes, a matchmaker program, virtual home visits and adoption events, a text-based foster program, and a post-adoption support program. Read more here.
This toolkit showcases a new program that paired dedicated volunteers with dogs who had been in a shelter for the longest time as “virtual fosters.” These dogs get the benefits of a traditional foster home – like personal and consistent interaction – while still residing at the shelter. Read more here.
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