Who is checking out your pets? For the week of December 8 – 14, we tracked the following statistics on Google Analytics: 1,761,014 people visited Petfinder During their visit to Petfinder.com, they looked at 32,200,455 pages of pet profiles and information about adopting and living with pets. On average, these visitors spent more than 8 minutes looking at over 11 adoptable pets!

When you work in sheltering and rescue, it’s not at all unusual to run into shy or insecure dogs. We want these dogs to come around to be happy and comfortable so they can be adopted into loving homes. Your staff and volunteers should set the tone for the organization as a whole, being positive all the way around, but taking …