Last Fall, we (Maddie's Fund) hosted a contest called the Get 'em Home Challenge to get dogs and cats adopted who have been in the shelter over 30 days. Jacksonville Humane Society was the grand prize winner and during the three-month contest was able to find permanent homes for 83 dogs and 831 cats that had been in the shelter longer than 30 days!
We sent a blog post out today sharing their winning strategy and JHS also shared two documents to help you implement in your own shelter! Read the blog post first to learn how they did it and then check out their documents.
I've attached their documents to this discussion as well. A huge congratulations and thanks to Jacksonville Humane Society (@LindsayL, @Denise Deisler, @Lauren, @AmyJHS)! And endless tail wags and head butts from all of the long-stay dogs and cats who have already found homes and will find homes in the future because of their new protocols!
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