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Shelter Exchange and Adopt-a-Pet.com Partner to Help Homeless Animals

Posted by Claire Bokor
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Animals Entered into Shelter Exchange Now Automatically Uploaded to Adopt-a-Pet.com, Saving Time and Saving Lives

January 30th 2012, Raleigh, NC – A new partnership was announced this week in the animal welfare community between Shelter Exchange and Adopt-a-Pet.com (formerly 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com.) This new collaboration between these two organizations provides the ability to help the growing number of homeless animals in the USA to find adoptive families through extensive outreach to shelters, rescues and the general public.

Shelter Exchange, a non-profit organization that provides a life saving web application to shelters and rescue groups at no cost, saw this partnership as a perfect match. ‘We are thrilled to have partnered with Adopt-a-Pet.com,” said Claire Bokor, Founder of Shelter Exchange. “Every adoptable animal entered into Shelter Exchange can now be automatically uploaded to Adopt-a-Pet.com. This provides a huge time savings for shelters and rescues groups, and the animals are gaining so much more exposure on additional adoption websites.”

Shelter Exchange burst onto the animal welfare scene in September 2011 armed with a free web-based solution that every shelter and rescue group in the USA can use. In just four months, more than 200 shelters and rescue groups have started using Shelter Exchange’s solution, enabling over 300 adoptions of homeless animals.

 

About Shelter Exchange

Shelter Exchange was founded in October 2010 as a 501c3 non-profit organization to effect positive and lasting change to the challenging issue of animal euthanasia in shelters across the country. The Shelter Exchange software application enables a more complete approach, offering shelters and rescue organization a no-cost centralized resource aimed at reducing the volume of animal euthanasia and creating the best possible opportunities for rescue and adoption. To learn more about Shelter Exchange visit www.shelterexchange.org, http://www.facebook.com/shelterexchange or follow them on Twitter @shelterexchange

 

About Adopt-a-Pet.com

Adopt-a-Pet.com (formerly 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com) is North America’s largest non-profit pet adoption website with over 10,000 public and private animal shelters and humane societies posting their pets for adoption. Over 1,500,000 unique visitors search each month by zip code and other preferences to see photos and descriptions of pets for adoption in their area. Adopt-a-Pet.com helps shelters; humane societies, SPCAs, pet rescue groups, and pet adoption agencies advertise their homeless pets to adopters for free. Their adoption website also provides the ability to post on other large high trafficked sites such as, Marthastewart.com, Dog.com, Purina One and Pet Smart Charities site peoplesavingpets.org. To learn more about Adopt-a-Pet.com visit www.adoptapet.com/, http://www.facebook.com/Adoptapetcom or follow them on Twitter @TweetACritter

 

Contact:

Claire Bokor
Shelter Exchange
claire.bokor@shelterexchange.org

Jennifer Warner Jacobsen
Adopt-a-Pet.com
jennifer@adoptapet.com

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Claire Bokor

Founder of Shelter Exchange

 

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  1. Joni, February 7, 2012
    "Every adoptable animal entered into Shelter Exchange can now be automatically uploaded to Adopt-a-Pet.com." -- will this also work in the reverse -- animal data entered into Adopt-a-Pet going to Shelter Exchange? Reply
    • Claire Bokor, February 8, 2012
      Hi Joni! Shelter Exchange built the code to automatically push/upload animals to Adopt-a-Pet.com as many of our shelters and rescues were asking for this feature. So for the reverse to happen, meaning Adopt-a-pet.com pushes/uploads to Shelter Exchange, they would have to implement the same kind of feature on their side. I would believe that if enough shelters and rescues provide feedback to Adopt-a-Pet.com then if could become a consideration in the future for them. Right now, animals need to be entered into Shelter Exchange and pushed to Adopt-a-Pet.com. Thanks! Reply
  2. Wayne, March 8, 2012
    Claire, I work with a no-kill non profit shelter with a focus on elderly and medically compromised animals, although there are plenty of others, too. Volunteers staff it and there is hesitancy to use new software because of the learning curve. A couple questions: 1) Objectively, how user-friendly is this software to use and learn and is it loaded up with bells and whistles or did you take a narrower functional approach? 2) Can you envision a way this software could be utilized at a distance from the shelter by non-local volunteers or would that just involve entering the data a second time after passing it along from the facility? We're trying to split up the considerable amount of work that needs to be done, and the admin side of things can be handled remotely if we could figure out a process. Could you also email your reply to my supplied address?Thanks for your dedication to these issues! Reply

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