Millions of cats that enter US animal shelters every year are euthanized. Currently, there is little scientific information about how to best match up individual cats with prospective adopters, meaning that adoptions either never occur or they fail (the cat is returned to the shelter). Combining research on human and feline personality, we aim to create a compatibility assessment tool that will allow cats to be placed in homes where they have the best chance for long term success.
I love that efforts are being made to improve cat adoptions. I hope a lot of good can come of this.
Our Bengal, TC, was returned to the shelter twice that we know of, and I think if people had known ahead of time how high maintenance, needy, annoying, and wonderful he is, he may have found the right home sooner. Although it worked out since we’re the right home for him.
Thanks for posting, @firemonkey! As usual, interesting and important information.
I’ve done more than my share in keeping these 9 kitties out of the shelter… now there’s 13, this isn’t all of them in the picture. Unfortunately we just discovered yesterday the mama kitty here (far left kitty) was found one street over and flat.
We also have 6 more indoor only cats. I go through a 44lb bag (of dry food) for the outside cats and a 24lb bag for the inside cats, every 2-3 weeks. Maybe I should start a Go Fund Me account, hehe.
