| Canine Match Making Service – A Howling Success |
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Leading animal welfare organisation, Animal Aid, has successfully matched more than 500 dogs with compatible adopters through its innovative match making service called Meet Your Match® Canine-alityTM Adoption Program, implemented just over 12 months ago. The dog personality assessment program is designed to match dogs with compatible potential owners and is based on a detailed evaluation of the stray or abandoned dog which predicts how a dog is likely to behave in its new environment. Through the process, the budding adopter ascertains what they are wishing for with their possible new pet and the sort of dog that would enjoy their home. Animal Aid has used the ASPCA produced colour-coded system for the new adoption program to easily categorise the dogs, potentially bringing harmonious matches together. Orange coded dogs are often slightly lower maintenance pooches who still love interaction. Sub categories in the orange group are ‘goofball', ‘wallflower' and ‘busy bee'. Purple types are dogs that love a more relaxed lifestyle and are seen as a constant companion, couch potato or teacher's pet. According to Animal Aid General Manager, Nell Thompson, the Canine-alityTM Adoption Program is a simple, yet effective way to determine how successful an adoption will be between the person and the dog. "At Animal Aid, we are determined to reduce the high numbers of dogs being returned to our centre, because the dog and its owner were simply not well-matched as well as increase the number of animals adopted," she said. "The beauty of this new program is that despite the simplicity of the colour-coded system, we have taken great lengths to provide subcategories for potential adopters to examine and evaluate if the dog would be a suitable companion for the new owner. "At Animal Aid, we are constantly striving to find ways to create healthy and permanent relationships between people and pets. I think we have achieved this by the number of successful matches we have created so far in the program." |
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