"However, I had my retail space and thought, 'What better opportunity is there than to have friendly,
adoptable cats greet my customers at my store?'"
The impetus for the project was a recognition that that two important goals could be achieved simultaneously; these two goals included providing opportunities for students to develop a better understanding of operant principles by using them in a handson manner, and helping to make unwanted shelter dogs more readily
adoptable. During that semester, psychology of learning students were offered an opportunity to earn supplementary course credit (i.e., "extra credit") for attending a training session and then working for six hours training dogs at local Humane Society shelter.
The greatest demand among all races is for the infants and toddlers who make up only 4 percent of all
adoptable children.
Participating no-kill rescue groups and shelters (including Animal Oasis, CAWS and Wasatch Humane) find homes for
adoptable animals through regularly scheduled weekend adoption days at area PETsMARTs and Furburbia (a pet adoption center at Salt Lake City's Cottonwood Mall), on specially scheduled Super Adoptions, and by posting photos and descriptions on NMHP's online adoption database, www.utahpets.org.
Featuring guest appearances by Merrin Dungey (Big Little Lies, Alias), Gale Harold (Queer as Folk, Secret Circle), Eddie Jemison (Chicago Med, iZombie), and Julia Duffy (Newhart, Designing Women), Season One of
Adoptable! is produced by ScoLo, Inc.
The pair met the program's hard-working volunteers and shared pictures and video of the
adoptable dogs with fans on social media.
Some of the Haven's
adoptable pets will also be in attendance.
For around 12 weeks work will be done to bring the footways and carriageway of New Street and West Street up to an
adoptable standard.
If you've been called a "Dog Whisperer," then perhaps you can teach unruly pups basic obedience skills, which in turn, will make them more
adoptable. If you're really ambitious, you might consider fostering a dog or a litter of puppies in your home.
Cats and dogs of all kinds were the real winners when the ARC (which works to end the killing of
adoptable animals) presented the HairBall at the Hyatt Sarasota.
A bid to scrap a Teesside council's plans to bring 19 private roads up to
adoptable standard has failed.