Pre-Registering Saves Time

As pet industry leaders, you all have more in common than your love of animals; you need more time in the day---twenty-four hours just doesn't seem to be enough time to get everything done. Using AnimalTRACS™ and other PetLynx offerings will help you decrease the time spent on lost and found episodes, and will also help reduce both admission and adoption times if you encourage the public to do the work. By getting your clients to pre-load themselves in the system, you've decreased the time it takes to complete an adoption by half. Likewise, if you require the public to complete a found report prior to the intake of a new animal, you can transfer those found reports and decrease the amount of time your intake procedure requires. Not only are these process changes saving time but they are also encouraging your clients to use PetLynx thereby ensuring that the next time they experience a lost or found episode for an animal, they will go directly to PetLynx first. We all know we can't add hours to the day but we can use others to help lighten the workload.

Statistically Speaking

Statistics are a large part of how shelter, rescue, and animal control organizations measure performance in their community. Statistics help us find and increase funding for various animal wellness programs and also help us identify where we need to do a better job. "Return to Shelter" may be the most helpful statistic we can track. Knowing that we're matching the right pet with the right pet family means we've satisfied our goal of re-homing an animal to an appropriate environment. ShelterLynx enables users to track how many animals have been returned to the facility and the reasons for this return through intake types. By choosing "Return to Shelter" as the intake type instead of using the "Undo Adoption" function, organizations can effectively track these statistics. With statistics in hand, Adoption Coordinators can assess how they choose the right pet family for a pet and what tools they are using to evaluate pets before they reach the adoption area. Positive adoptions are the best referrals that any organization can have and statistics are a great tool to increase your positive adoption rates!