Furry Friday
2011-Mar-04, Friday 01:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerI can't even remember the last time I did a Furry Friday post. I have two reasons for that oversight. First, the bad reason is that I've been burned out (see other recent posts). Second, however, the very good reason is because animals have been adopted so quickly that I simply haven't had time to get to know them before they find homes! At a recent employee meeting, they shared with us some year-to-year comparisons for the month. Last year, the average cat spent a whole month under our roof before finding a home. This year, that average time is already down to just one week. The improvement has really been that dramatic.
We've reduced prices to help get more potential adopters matched up with new pets. We've gone to intake only by appointment to help keep animals in homes before coming here. We've changed to doing initial health and behavior exams during the intake appointment, so animals can be immediately approved for placement on the adoption floor rather than waiting in stressful crowded cages for their turn.
All of these changes have reduced both length-of-stay and also euthanasia rates by large amounts. It's all very good for the animals. It means that our cat rooms are no longer filled with animals waiting long times for a new home. It means that my initial reason for spotlighting some lingering animals is now gone. That's a good thing. :)
(Totally unrelated, but a patch to one of our databases didn't go well tonight. A few minutes ago, I filed an urgent bug report with the developers so we can get a quick fix made. I can't remember right now if previous patches ever went bad. Here's hoping that it's not something I did wrong. Argh! Time for some sleep before getting up at dawn to face another day.)
We've reduced prices to help get more potential adopters matched up with new pets. We've gone to intake only by appointment to help keep animals in homes before coming here. We've changed to doing initial health and behavior exams during the intake appointment, so animals can be immediately approved for placement on the adoption floor rather than waiting in stressful crowded cages for their turn.
All of these changes have reduced both length-of-stay and also euthanasia rates by large amounts. It's all very good for the animals. It means that our cat rooms are no longer filled with animals waiting long times for a new home. It means that my initial reason for spotlighting some lingering animals is now gone. That's a good thing. :)
(Totally unrelated, but a patch to one of our databases didn't go well tonight. A few minutes ago, I filed an urgent bug report with the developers so we can get a quick fix made. I can't remember right now if previous patches ever went bad. Here's hoping that it's not something I did wrong. Argh! Time for some sleep before getting up at dawn to face another day.)