Animal Welfare Professionals

On Thursday, November 7, 2024, join Maddie's® Monthly Foster Connection at 12pm PT/3pm ET, Finnegan Dowling, Shelter Program and Engagement Manager, will be discussing your favorite long stay pets to identify strategies for marketing them to fosters and adopters. 

Register for the session so that you can receive notifications about upcoming webcasts and participate in discussions after the webcast.  
 
Webcast Description: 
With every shelter stuffed to bursting, finding fosters and adopters is crucial. For some pets this is simple, but others are harder to place. In this workshop, we'll discuss your favorite long stay pets to identify strategies for marketing them to fosters and adopters. This workshop is not just for foster staff– it's open to anyone who is interested in marketing pets who are harder to place! 

 Make sure to bring information about your own favorite or most challenging long stay. We'll choose several and work through them together, discussing what works, what doesn't work and some innovative new ways that can get extra attention and help them find the right home. We'll discuss how we talk about behavioral and health challenges in bios and social media and discuss the optimal ways to be frank about issues while also not deterring potential adopters. We'll look at different social media channels and how to optimize content about those pets for those channels to get the message across and help these pets put their best paw forward. Be prepared for a fun, frank and useful webinar with a lot of workshopping and participation! 

To submit a question for our presenter or a long stay pet you'd like to discuss during the workshop, please fill out this form: 

https://forms.gle/Ap8Nm84fiM4PKbqR8 

About Finnegan Dowling: 

@Finnegan Dowling has been in animal welfare for more than 25 years and has worked in shelters in Washington, Colorado, California, and Nicaragua. Prior to working for Mutual Rescue, she was the social-media manager for HSSV where her work was honored with Shorty and Communicator Awards. Finnegan's writing has been published in The Bark, Bay Woof, and Huffington Post. In her current role she works with shelters around the country to help them start day foster programs. She often presents on day fostering and marketing at animal welfare conferences. She has spoken at Best Friends, Virginia Federation of Humane Societies, New Mexico Humane Conference and many others. She lives in coastal Texas with an opinionated dog and her husband. 

On Thursday, November 7, 2024, join Maddie's® Monthly Foster Connection at 12pm PT/3pm ET, Finnegan Dowling, Shelter Program and Engagement Manager, will be discussing your favorite long stay pets to identify strategies for marketing them to fosters and adopters. 

Register for the session so that you can receive notifications about upcoming webcasts and participate in discussions after the webcast.  
 
Webcast Description: 
With every shelter stuffed to bursting, finding fosters and adopters is crucial. For some pets this is simple, but others are harder to place. In this workshop, we'll discuss your favorite long stay pets to identify strategies for marketing them to fosters and adopters. This workshop is not just for foster staff– it's open to anyone who is interested in marketing pets who are harder to place! 

 Make sure to bring information about your own favorite or most challenging long stay. We'll choose several and work through them together, discussing what works, what doesn't work and some innovative new ways that can get extra attention and help them find the right home. We'll discuss how we talk about behavioral and health challenges in bios and social media and discuss the optimal ways to be frank about issues while also not deterring potential adopters. We'll look at different social media channels and how to optimize content about those pets for those channels to get the message across and help these pets put their best paw forward. Be prepared for a fun, frank and useful webinar with a lot of workshopping and participation! 

To submit a question for our presenter or a long stay pet you'd like to discuss during the workshop, please fill out this form: 

https://forms.gle/Ap8Nm84fiM4PKbqR8 

About Finnegan Dowling: 

@Finnegan Dowling has been in animal welfare for more than 25 years and has worked in shelters in Washington, Colorado, California, and Nicaragua. Prior to working for Mutual Rescue, she was the social-media manager for HSSV where her work was honored with Shorty and Communicator Awards. Finnegan's writing has been published in The Bark, Bay Woof, and Huffington Post. In her current role she works with shelters around the country to help them start day foster programs. She often presents on day fostering and marketing at animal welfare conferences. She has spoken at Best Friends, Virginia Federation of Humane Societies, New Mexico Humane Conference and many others. She lives in coastal Texas with an opinionated dog and her husband. 

Thank you so much to Finnegan and everyone who joined us today! I'll post our recording shortly.

Resources from today's presentation:

Long Stay Pet Marketing Checklist: https://bit.ly/LSPMC  

Resources for Separating Marketing & Adoption Counseling: https://bit.ly/SepMarAC  

Long Stay Pet Marketing Tracker: https://bit.ly/LSPMarketingTracker 

Social Media Groups and Pages for Marketing/Crossposting Adoptable Pets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GTiHlAkH5Q-DVPM4cuRgpaQzh0t43lgn/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107118349994460096903&rtpof=true&sd=true  

Power Point Slides: https://forum.maddiesfund.org/viewdocument/long-stay-pet-marketing-presentatio?CommunityKey=afce7f7a-fd5a-431e-9f2a-aaedc46a03d6  

On Thursday, November 7, 2024, join Maddie's® Monthly Foster Connection at 12pm PT/3pm ET, Finnegan Dowling, Shelter Program and Engagement Manager, will be discussing your favorite long stay pets to identify strategies for marketing them to fosters and adopters. 

Register for the session so that you can receive notifications about upcoming webcasts and participate in discussions after the webcast.  
 
Webcast Description: 
With every shelter stuffed to bursting, finding fosters and adopters is crucial. For some pets this is simple, but others are harder to place. In this workshop, we'll discuss your favorite long stay pets to identify strategies for marketing them to fosters and adopters. This workshop is not just for foster staff– it's open to anyone who is interested in marketing pets who are harder to place! 

 Make sure to bring information about your own favorite or most challenging long stay. We'll choose several and work through them together, discussing what works, what doesn't work and some innovative new ways that can get extra attention and help them find the right home. We'll discuss how we talk about behavioral and health challenges in bios and social media and discuss the optimal ways to be frank about issues while also not deterring potential adopters. We'll look at different social media channels and how to optimize content about those pets for those channels to get the message across and help these pets put their best paw forward. Be prepared for a fun, frank and useful webinar with a lot of workshopping and participation! 

To submit a question for our presenter or a long stay pet you'd like to discuss during the workshop, please fill out this form: 

https://forms.gle/Ap8Nm84fiM4PKbqR8 

About Finnegan Dowling: 

@Finnegan Dowling has been in animal welfare for more than 25 years and has worked in shelters in Washington, Colorado, California, and Nicaragua. Prior to working for Mutual Rescue, she was the social-media manager for HSSV where her work was honored with Shorty and Communicator Awards. Finnegan's writing has been published in The Bark, Bay Woof, and Huffington Post. In her current role she works with shelters around the country to help them start day foster programs. She often presents on day fostering and marketing at animal welfare conferences. She has spoken at Best Friends, Virginia Federation of Humane Societies, New Mexico Humane Conference and many others. She lives in coastal Texas with an opinionated dog and her husband. 

Thank you so much to Finnegan and everyone who joined us today! I'll post our recording shortly.

Resources from today's presentation:

Long Stay Pet Marketing Checklist: https://bit.ly/LSPMC  

Resources for Separating Marketing & Adoption Counseling: https://bit.ly/SepMarAC  

Long Stay Pet Marketing Tracker: https://bit.ly/LSPMarketingTracker 

Social Media Groups and Pages for Marketing/Crossposting Adoptable Pets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GTiHlAkH5Q-DVPM4cuRgpaQzh0t43lgn/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107118349994460096903&rtpof=true&sd=true  

Power Point Slides: https://forum.maddiesfund.org/viewdocument/long-stay-pet-marketing-presentatio?CommunityKey=afce7f7a-fd5a-431e-9f2a-aaedc46a03d6  

On Thursday, November 7, 2024, join Maddie's® Monthly Foster Connection at 12pm PT/3pm ET, Finnegan Dowling, Shelter Program and Engagement Manager, will be discussing your favorite long stay pets to identify strategies for marketing them to fosters and adopters. 

Register for the session so that you can receive notifications about upcoming webcasts and participate in discussions after the webcast.  
 
Webcast Description: 
With every shelter stuffed to bursting, finding fosters and adopters is crucial. For some pets this is simple, but others are harder to place. In this workshop, we'll discuss your favorite long stay pets to identify strategies for marketing them to fosters and adopters. This workshop is not just for foster staff– it's open to anyone who is interested in marketing pets who are harder to place! 

 Make sure to bring information about your own favorite or most challenging long stay. We'll choose several and work through them together, discussing what works, what doesn't work and some innovative new ways that can get extra attention and help them find the right home. We'll discuss how we talk about behavioral and health challenges in bios and social media and discuss the optimal ways to be frank about issues while also not deterring potential adopters. We'll look at different social media channels and how to optimize content about those pets for those channels to get the message across and help these pets put their best paw forward. Be prepared for a fun, frank and useful webinar with a lot of workshopping and participation! 

To submit a question for our presenter or a long stay pet you'd like to discuss during the workshop, please fill out this form: 

https://forms.gle/Ap8Nm84fiM4PKbqR8 

About Finnegan Dowling: 

@Finnegan Dowling has been in animal welfare for more than 25 years and has worked in shelters in Washington, Colorado, California, and Nicaragua. Prior to working for Mutual Rescue, she was the social-media manager for HSSV where her work was honored with Shorty and Communicator Awards. Finnegan's writing has been published in The Bark, Bay Woof, and Huffington Post. In her current role she works with shelters around the country to help them start day foster programs. She often presents on day fostering and marketing at animal welfare conferences. She has spoken at Best Friends, Virginia Federation of Humane Societies, New Mexico Humane Conference and many others. She lives in coastal Texas with an opinionated dog and her husband. 

Thank you so much to Finnegan and everyone who joined us today! I'll post our recording shortly.

Resources from today's presentation:

Long Stay Pet Marketing Checklist: https://bit.ly/LSPMC  

Resources for Separating Marketing & Adoption Counseling: https://bit.ly/SepMarAC  

Long Stay Pet Marketing Tracker: https://bit.ly/LSPMarketingTracker 

Social Media Groups and Pages for Marketing/Crossposting Adoptable Pets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GTiHlAkH5Q-DVPM4cuRgpaQzh0t43lgn/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107118349994460096903&rtpof=true&sd=true  

Power Point Slides: https://forum.maddiesfund.org/viewdocument/long-stay-pet-marketing-presentatio?CommunityKey=afce7f7a-fd5a-431e-9f2a-aaedc46a03d6  

On Thursday, November 7, 2024, join Maddie's® Monthly Foster Connection at 12pm PT/3pm ET, Finnegan Dowling, Shelter Program and Engagement Manager, will be discussing your favorite long stay pets to identify strategies for marketing them to fosters and adopters. 

Register for the session so that you can receive notifications about upcoming webcasts and participate in discussions after the webcast.  
 
Webcast Description: 
With every shelter stuffed to bursting, finding fosters and adopters is crucial. For some pets this is simple, but others are harder to place. In this workshop, we'll discuss your favorite long stay pets to identify strategies for marketing them to fosters and adopters. This workshop is not just for foster staff– it's open to anyone who is interested in marketing pets who are harder to place! 

 Make sure to bring information about your own favorite or most challenging long stay. We'll choose several and work through them together, discussing what works, what doesn't work and some innovative new ways that can get extra attention and help them find the right home. We'll discuss how we talk about behavioral and health challenges in bios and social media and discuss the optimal ways to be frank about issues while also not deterring potential adopters. We'll look at different social media channels and how to optimize content about those pets for those channels to get the message across and help these pets put their best paw forward. Be prepared for a fun, frank and useful webinar with a lot of workshopping and participation! 

To submit a question for our presenter or a long stay pet you'd like to discuss during the workshop, please fill out this form: 

https://forms.gle/Ap8Nm84fiM4PKbqR8 

About Finnegan Dowling: 

@Finnegan Dowling has been in animal welfare for more than 25 years and has worked in shelters in Washington, Colorado, California, and Nicaragua. Prior to working for Mutual Rescue, she was the social-media manager for HSSV where her work was honored with Shorty and Communicator Awards. Finnegan's writing has been published in The Bark, Bay Woof, and Huffington Post. In her current role she works with shelters around the country to help them start day foster programs. She often presents on day fostering and marketing at animal welfare conferences. She has spoken at Best Friends, Virginia Federation of Humane Societies, New Mexico Humane Conference and many others. She lives in coastal Texas with an opinionated dog and her husband. 

Thank you so much to Finnegan and everyone who joined us today! I'll post our recording shortly.

Resources from today's presentation:

Long Stay Pet Marketing Checklist: https://bit.ly/LSPMC  

Resources for Separating Marketing & Adoption Counseling: https://bit.ly/SepMarAC  

Long Stay Pet Marketing Tracker: https://bit.ly/LSPMarketingTracker 

Social Media Groups and Pages for Marketing/Crossposting Adoptable Pets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GTiHlAkH5Q-DVPM4cuRgpaQzh0t43lgn/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107118349994460096903&rtpof=true&sd=true  

Power Point Slides: https://forum.maddiesfund.org/viewdocument/long-stay-pet-marketing-presentatio?CommunityKey=afce7f7a-fd5a-431e-9f2a-aaedc46a03d6  

On Thursday, November 7, 2024, join Maddie's® Monthly Foster Connection at 12pm PT/3pm ET, Finnegan Dowling, Shelter Program and Engagement Manager, will be discussing your favorite long stay pets to identify strategies for marketing them to fosters and adopters. 

Register for the session so that you can receive notifications about upcoming webcasts and participate in discussions after the webcast.  
 
Webcast Description: 
With every shelter stuffed to bursting, finding fosters and adopters is crucial. For some pets this is simple, but others are harder to place. In this workshop, we'll discuss your favorite long stay pets to identify strategies for marketing them to fosters and adopters. This workshop is not just for foster staff– it's open to anyone who is interested in marketing pets who are harder to place! 

 Make sure to bring information about your own favorite or most challenging long stay. We'll choose several and work through them together, discussing what works, what doesn't work and some innovative new ways that can get extra attention and help them find the right home. We'll discuss how we talk about behavioral and health challenges in bios and social media and discuss the optimal ways to be frank about issues while also not deterring potential adopters. We'll look at different social media channels and how to optimize content about those pets for those channels to get the message across and help these pets put their best paw forward. Be prepared for a fun, frank and useful webinar with a lot of workshopping and participation! 

To submit a question for our presenter or a long stay pet you'd like to discuss during the workshop, please fill out this form: 

https://forms.gle/Ap8Nm84fiM4PKbqR8 

About Finnegan Dowling: 

@Finnegan Dowling has been in animal welfare for more than 25 years and has worked in shelters in Washington, Colorado, California, and Nicaragua. Prior to working for Mutual Rescue, she was the social-media manager for HSSV where her work was honored with Shorty and Communicator Awards. Finnegan's writing has been published in The Bark, Bay Woof, and Huffington Post. In her current role she works with shelters around the country to help them start day foster programs. She often presents on day fostering and marketing at animal welfare conferences. She has spoken at Best Friends, Virginia Federation of Humane Societies, New Mexico Humane Conference and many others. She lives in coastal Texas with an opinionated dog and her husband. 

Thank you so much to Finnegan and everyone who joined us today! I'll post our recording shortly.

Resources from today's presentation:

Long Stay Pet Marketing Checklist: https://bit.ly/LSPMC  

Resources for Separating Marketing & Adoption Counseling: https://bit.ly/SepMarAC  

Long Stay Pet Marketing Tracker: https://bit.ly/LSPMarketingTracker 

Social Media Groups and Pages for Marketing/Crossposting Adoptable Pets: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GTiHlAkH5Q-DVPM4cuRgpaQzh0t43lgn/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107118349994460096903&rtpof=true&sd=true  

Power Point Slides: https://forum.maddiesfund.org/viewdocument/long-stay-pet-marketing-presentatio?CommunityKey=afce7f7a-fd5a-431e-9f2a-aaedc46a03d6  

On Thursday, November 7, 2024, join Maddie's® Monthly Foster Connection at 12pm PT/3pm ET, Finnegan Dowling, Shelter Program and Engagement Manager, will be discussing your favorite long stay pets to identify strategies for marketing them to fosters and adopters. 

Register for the session so that you can receive notifications about upcoming webcasts and participate in discussions after the webcast.  
 
Webcast Description: 
With every shelter stuffed to bursting, finding fosters and adopters is crucial. For some pets this is simple, but others are harder to place. In this workshop, we'll discuss your favorite long stay pets to identify strategies for marketing them to fosters and adopters. This workshop is not just for foster staff– it's open to anyone who is interested in marketing pets who are harder to place! 

 Make sure to bring information about your own favorite or most challenging long stay. We'll choose several and work through them together, discussing what works, what doesn't work and some innovative new ways that can get extra attention and help them find the right home. We'll discuss how we talk about behavioral and health challenges in bios and social media and discuss the optimal ways to be frank about issues while also not deterring potential adopters. We'll look at different social media channels and how to optimize content about those pets for those channels to get the message across and help these pets put their best paw forward. Be prepared for a fun, frank and useful webinar with a lot of workshopping and participation! 

To submit a question for our presenter or a long stay pet you'd like to discuss during the workshop, please fill out this form: 

https://forms.gle/Ap8Nm84fiM4PKbqR8 

About Finnegan Dowling: 

@Finnegan Dowling has been in animal welfare for more than 25 years and has worked in shelters in Washington, Colorado, California, and Nicaragua. Prior to working for Mutual Rescue, she was the social-media manager for HSSV where her work was honored with Shorty and Communicator Awards. Finnegan's writing has been published in The Bark, Bay Woof, and Huffington Post. In her current role she works with shelters around the country to help them start day foster programs. She often presents on day fostering and marketing at animal welfare conferences. She has spoken at Best Friends, Virginia Federation of Humane Societies, New Mexico Humane Conference and many others. She lives in coastal Texas with an opinionated dog and her husband. 

 
Webcast Description: 
With every shelter stuffed to bursting, finding fosters and adopters is crucial. For some pets this is simple, but others are harder to place. In this workshop, we'll discuss your favorite long stay pets to identify strategies for marketing them to fosters and adopters. This workshop is not just for foster staff– it's open to anyone who is interested in marketing pets who are harder to place! 

 Make sure to bring information about your own favorite or most challenging long stay. We'll choose several and work through them together, discussing what works, what doesn't work and some innovative new ways that can get extra attention and help them find the right home. We'll discuss how we talk about behavioral and health challenges in bios and social media and discuss the optimal ways to be frank about issues while also not deterring potential adopters. We'll look at different social media channels and how to optimize content about those pets for those channels to get the message across and help these pets put their best paw forward. Be prepared for a fun, frank and useful webinar with a lot of workshopping and participation! 

To submit a question for our presenter or a long stay pet you'd like to discuss during the workshop, please fill out this form: 

https://forms.gle/Ap8Nm84fiM4PKbqR8 

About Finnegan Dowling: 

@Finnegan Dowling has been in animal welfare for more than 25 years and has worked in shelters in Washington, Colorado, California, and Nicaragua. Prior to working for Mutual Rescue, she was the social-media manager for HSSV where her work was honored with Shorty and Communicator Awards. Finnegan's writing has been published in The Bark, Bay Woof, and Huffington Post. In her current role she works with shelters around the country to help them start day foster programs. She often presents on day fostering and marketing at animal welfare conferences. She has spoken at Best Friends, Virginia Federation of Humane Societies, New Mexico Humane Conference and many others. She lives in coastal Texas with an opinionated dog and her husband. 

 
Webcast Description: 
With every shelter stuffed to bursting, finding fosters and adopters is crucial. For some pets this is simple, but others are harder to place. In this workshop, we'll discuss your favorite long stay pets to identify strategies for marketing them to fosters and adopters. This workshop is not just for foster staff– it's open to anyone who is interested in marketing pets who are harder to place! 

 Make sure to bring information about your own favorite or most challenging long stay. We'll choose several and work through them together, discussing what works, what doesn't work and some innovative new ways that can get extra attention and help them find the right home. We'll discuss how we talk about behavioral and health challenges in bios and social media and discuss the optimal ways to be frank about issues while also not deterring potential adopters. We'll look at different social media channels and how to optimize content about those pets for those channels to get the message across and help these pets put their best paw forward. Be prepared for a fun, frank and useful webinar with a lot of workshopping and participation! 

To submit a question for our presenter or a long stay pet you'd like to discuss during the workshop, please fill out this form: 

https://forms.gle/Ap8Nm84fiM4PKbqR8 

About Finnegan Dowling: 

@Finnegan Dowling has been in animal welfare for more than 25 years and has worked in shelters in Washington, Colorado, California, and Nicaragua. Prior to working for Mutual Rescue, she was the social-media manager for HSSV where her work was honored with Shorty and Communicator Awards. Finnegan's writing has been published in The Bark, Bay Woof, and Huffington Post. In her current role she works with shelters around the country to help them start day foster programs. She often presents on day fostering and marketing at animal welfare conferences. She has spoken at Best Friends, Virginia Federation of Humane Societies, New Mexico Humane Conference and many others. She lives in coastal Texas with an opinionated dog and her husband.