Animal Welfare Professionals Community

Thank you so much!! Will definitely post an update with our results once our survey closes! :) ------------------------------ Sophia (Zoë) D'Agostino Researcher Colorado State University ------------------------------

Did any of the dogs adopted have "Not house trained" in their bio? My first thought would be that it wasn't actually that they were marked as not house trained but rather because they are large adults, which is typically a less adopted population and adoption rates are so low right now. I think it's great that you highlight personalities in bios and don't use adoption barrier icons. I think a big reason people don't want to adopt large adult dogs is because they are worried about how they would be read more

Done - Thank you so much for sharing! Would LOVE to stay updated on your findings! :) ------------------------------ Heather Kalman (she/her), CPDT-KA, SBA, ABCDT Embedded Data Coordinator American Pets Alive!, Human Animal Support Services ------------------------------

Hello friends! My name is Zoë D'Agostino; Dr. Jennie Willis and I are researching dog-adopter preferences based on canine behavior and medical needs to help shelters better understand adopters as well as help more dogs get adopted! It would mean the world to me if you would be willing to help us reach our research goals by taking our very short, 2-minutes survey: https://forms.gle/TwdmduLHFajNbDJh9 Just TWO minutes of time to help all the dogs!! This survey will shed light on the preferences read more

Has anybody had problems with adopt-a-pet and potentially shelter buddy? We do not upload our behavior evals into shelter buddy, instead print out a separate form that goes in the pet's hard file. We do not utilize any of the icons (biter, no kids, cat friendly, etc.) instead we highlight personality in their bios and will mention any hard stops on there. We had a successful adoption event this weekend. HOWEVER, though we had large dogs on "sale" we didn't get very many adoptions of our long stay read more