We surveyed shelters and rescue organizations to: assess overall levels of engagement, investigate potential drivers which may contribute to engagement or disengagement and provide resources to enable organizations to improve engagement.
Not exact matches
In a recent national
survey, Pet finder, the respected national
organization where we post our dogs available for adoption, animal
shelter and rescue groups reported that most pets are listed for about 3 months, whereas, black dogs
and senior or special needs dogs average 12 months on the Pet finder adoption site.
We are asking administrators, staff members
and volunteers of U. S. animal
shelters and rescue groups to take a brief
survey about their
organization's care of orphaned kittens.
The bad news, according to a
survey * released recently by Best Friends Animal Society, is that more than 40 percent of Americans are unaware that virtually all pet stores obtain dogs from puppy mills
and nearly one in five people still chose to purchase a new dog at a local pet shop rather than adopt from a
shelter or
rescue organization.
In 2014, the
Shelter Pet Project, an Ad Council public service advertising campaign promoting pet adoption
and funded by Maddie's Fund ®
and the Humane Society of the United States, conducted a research
survey of 1,402 people to understand how to increase the number of pets acquired from animal
shelters and rescue organizations.