Hi everyone,
I've recently become involved with the local SPCA, mainly through their pet therapy program, but i am now going to start helping with sattelite adoptions. This is where we bring pets from the shelter to local PetSmarts and can adopt them out from here, or atleast get people interested.
Generally there are about 6-8 cat cages and the cats stay a week at a time, and as a general rule get adopted out and never come back to the shelter (we are in a very good area for adoptions). Dogs however we bring down 2 at a time for the day, and they don't leave the petsmart, interested individuals can come back at the end of the day to the SPCA and adopt the dog.
Basically we give out surveys and based on the answer will lead our discussion with individuals to see if they are suitable owners. Some immediate redflags are people looking for hunting/guard dogs. People who will cage/leave their dog outside/in the garage and for this we can reccomend a home inspection before they adopt which they generally fail. Other indicators are how much they plan to spend a year - on average we say $1000/year.
For the cats they can be adopted out on the spot, and apparently you have to have a REALLY good reason to say no. You can discourage, but not outwardly deny. However again there are some tells, for instance its illegal for people to keep cats outside here, you can be charged $500...... However we can't have an opinion on declawing, although I will inform people of possible reprocussions......
Any advice on what to look for? What to ask? how to encourage or discourage?? anything woul dbe appreciated, thanks!
I've recently become involved with the local SPCA, mainly through their pet therapy program, but i am now going to start helping with sattelite adoptions. This is where we bring pets from the shelter to local PetSmarts and can adopt them out from here, or atleast get people interested.
Generally there are about 6-8 cat cages and the cats stay a week at a time, and as a general rule get adopted out and never come back to the shelter (we are in a very good area for adoptions). Dogs however we bring down 2 at a time for the day, and they don't leave the petsmart, interested individuals can come back at the end of the day to the SPCA and adopt the dog.
Basically we give out surveys and based on the answer will lead our discussion with individuals to see if they are suitable owners. Some immediate redflags are people looking for hunting/guard dogs. People who will cage/leave their dog outside/in the garage and for this we can reccomend a home inspection before they adopt which they generally fail. Other indicators are how much they plan to spend a year - on average we say $1000/year.
For the cats they can be adopted out on the spot, and apparently you have to have a REALLY good reason to say no. You can discourage, but not outwardly deny. However again there are some tells, for instance its illegal for people to keep cats outside here, you can be charged $500...... However we can't have an opinion on declawing, although I will inform people of possible reprocussions......
Any advice on what to look for? What to ask? how to encourage or discourage?? anything woul dbe appreciated, thanks!