Adoption Events: Skills, Ethics, and Best Practices

Abstract

Getting cats and dogs through the shelter and onto the next stage of their lives is understandably the main thing shelter staff and volunteers are focused on, and adoption events are one way to make this happen. However, adoption events are complex and can be challenging, This article introduces ways to solve common problems using interviews with people who have, and who have chosen not to, run adoption events with their shelter or rescue group.