Best Friends Animal Society’s Post

In case you missed the April 19th Dogs and Data call hosted by Shelter Animals Count and Pedigree Foundation, here are the key learnings for the first quarter of 2024: 🐶 Dog adoptions accounted for 53% of dog intakes in 2024, compared to 52% in 2019. 🐶 Dog return-to-owner outcomes have declined each year since 2019, from a high of 21% of total intakes in 2019 to 18% in 2024. 🐶 Dog transfer outcomes have decreased three percentage points, from 16% of total intakes to 13% of total intakes in 2024. 🐶 Dog non-live outcomes decreased from 9% of total intakes in 2019 to 6% of total intakes in 2021, and have been increasing since 2021, reaching the highest level in 2024, with 11% of total intakes resulting in a non-live outcome. Watch the recording and/or download the slide deck below. ⬇️

If you care for pets on a stray hold, pre-adoption helps you make sure you're not missing out on interested adopters during the holding period. You might assume that only small, highly desirable dogs get pre-adopted, and they do! But Memphis Animal Services started pre-adoptions in 2019 and found that most of the dogs getting pre-adopted were actually medium dogs over 6 months old - the exact population most in need at their shelter. Are you interested in starting pre-adoptions at your org? Here's a step-by-step how-to for getting started!

If you ever find yourself in the unfortunate situation of losing your dog or cat, preparation can make all the difference in reuniting with your furry friend. Here’s how to prepare and what to do: ✅Check your yard for places they can escape. ✅Make a list of local animal shelters and their contact info. ✅Join local social media groups about lost pets or your neighborhood Facebook group. ✅ Make sure they are microchipped, the contact info is up to date and you have the paperwork handy. ✅ Ensure your pet has a collar with your contact information on it. Taking these steps in advance ensures you’re ready to act swiftly and effectively if your cat ever goes missing. Preparation is key to bringing your beloved pet back home safely! #LostCat #LostDog #PetSafety #AnimalCommunication #AskYourAnimals

My apologies for not posting this yesterday, but I had to save a stray fur baby from being put down at Fulton County Animal Shelter. Now, let's dive into how new commission requirements are affecting real estate buyers and sellers. #realestate #realty #Coldwellbankerrealty #Atlantarealestate #RHHomesllc #luxuryrealestate #Coldwellbanker #realtor

A unified approach. Helping to keep pets in their homes.

Safety is no Accident

Shelter professionals: Submit your questions for our panelists to answer live in our ASPCA Shelter Behavior Roundtable: Changing How We Talk About Behavior Dogs and Cats. March 28. How we talk about the pets in our care matters. Whether counseling an adopter about the sassy cat they are interested in or talking with staff about the reactive behavior they observed in a new dog, the words we use will affect the pathway for that animal. Join our panel of experts as they dig into the issue of how we talk and think about some of our more challenging shelter animals. Panelists will share examples and tools with attendees that can be implemented quickly into daily operations.  #shelterbehavior #animalwelfare #animalwellbeing #dogbehavior #dogtraining #catbehavior #feline #animalshelter

“48% of (shelter) intake in the US were strays, and only 9% were returned to their owners” - those are heartbreaking stats. When a pet becomes lost, the best outcome is to get that animal back home, fast! The finder-to-foster program model works to do just this; keeping animals out of the shelter. And it’s had great success in the U.S.! Some shelters have doubled or even tripled return-to-home rates with the program, plus increased adoptions to boot. Jenifer Reed and Heather Kalman, who are with Human Animal Support Services at Austin Pets Alive! shared strategies with #ICAM2024 to successfully implement this type of program in your shelter. Watch Day 4 https://lnkd.in/eJAXzcFY 

So rescues work with certain shelters…some only take small or breed specific. Some don’t take behavior dogs or sick dogs listed for pre euthanasia, but if they seem perfectly healthy try anyway. Holds are being shortened. If you don’t agree then sign petitions and get involved. Nobody wants to see a healthy dog euthanized, and it’s shocking that it’s happening. Fosters don’t happen out of thin air, reach out to your company, and Highschools and active senior facilities and anyone who can help. When a shelter is in a no man’s land? Create a lifeline. DogsWithoutBorders O kills is the goal!!! Love you dog lovers and rescuers and vets and fosters.

Dogs and Best Friends Animal Society supporters and staff filled the Hall of Governors Tuesday to celebrate Gov. Spencer Cox declaring 2024 as no-kill shelter year in Utah. “Whereas, achieving no-kill for all of Utah’s animal shelters is within reach, and would make Utah the largest no-kill state and the first no-kill state in the West,” Cox wrote, “Now, therefore, I, Spencer J. Cox, governor of the state of Utah, do hereby declare 2024 as no-kill shelter year in Utah.” The declaration encourages animal shelters to change policies to save pets’ lives. A no-kill state means that the shelters within the state save the lives of pets they house. According to data from Best Friends, 47 out of 60 shelters across the state are no-kill. So far, 45,538 furry friends have been saved. The total save rate is 87.8%, while 1,700 cats and dogs have been killed. This data was formulated from shelters’ most recent data (in years 2021, 2022 or 2023). Read more: bit.ly/4bXuWKo ✏️: Hanna Seariac, Deseret News 📸: Jeffrey D. Allred, Deseret News #animalwelfare #animalshelter #utah