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  • 1.  How does this finding align with your shelter's adoption policies?

    Posted 05-03-2023 07:51 AM

    Check out this paper on adoption policies! How does this align with your shelter and community?

    Taken from abstract: "This study examined the quality of care and attachment in two groups of adopters, a group that adopted while policy based adoptions were in place and a group that adopted when policies were eliminated. There were no substantial differences between the two groups. This important finding indicates that those that adopt through conversation based adoptions (policy-free) provide similar high quality care and are just as likely to be highly bonded to their pet as those that adopt through policy based adoptions."

    https://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50847&#abstract 


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    Heather Kalman (she/her), CPDT-KA, SBA, ABCDT
    Research and Development Data Coordinator
    American Pets Alive!, Human Animal Support Services
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  • 2.  RE: How does this finding align with your shelter's adoption policies?

    Posted 05-04-2023 06:22 AM

    Heather:

    Thanks for sharing! Very interesting read!

    Jenny



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    Jennifer Webber
    The Humane Society of Hobart, Inc.
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  • 3.  RE: How does this finding align with your shelter's adoption policies?

    Posted 05-05-2023 12:24 PM

    I think the issue is that most shelters don't have time to do conversations base type adoption.  I'm with a small rescue and I do the conversation screenings, a lot of people don't like talking on the phone and it does take a certain skill set to talk to the potential adopter as well as training someone to conduct these screenings. We have an extremely low rate of return because of these video or voice screenings.
    Glad that there is a paper that proves it!



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    Heron Ceron
    Foster coordinator
    Welcome Home Sanctuary
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