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ONE DAY ONLY! Saturday, January 20th @ Prairie Paws Animal Shelter 11am - 4pm LOYD BUILDERS WANTS YOU TO MEET YOUR NEW BEST FRIEND! ONE DAY ONLY! ALL ADOPTION FEES FOR AVAILABLE PRAIRIE PAWS ANIMAL SHELTER HOMELESS PETS ARE BEING SPONSORED BY LOYD BUILDERS! Check out Loyd Builders, Inc.'s Facebook page! About: At Loyd Builders, Inc. they provide General Construction, Construction Management, Design-Build, and Pre-construction Services for a variety of project types. Loyd Builders, Inc. PO Box 266 2126 S. Elm Ottawa, KS 66067 (785) 242-1213 - main (785) 242-1246 - fax Email: info@loydbuildersks.com What a huge opportunity for our homeless pets! We are so thankful for Loyd Builder's huge hearts! How awesome are sponsored fees? You can spend the money you would have spent on their adoption fee for toys, food and supplies. Woot! Everyone loves a deal, regardless of income. There have been many studies and reports that prove reduced-fee and low-fee adoptions work. Maddie’s Fund did a post-adoption survey of its sponsored adoption event in San Francisco in 2011, which offered free adoption fees. The upshot? Six to 12 months after the event, 95 percent of dogs and 93 percent of cats were still in their original forever homes. That means the return rate was actually less than average for most shelters and rescue groups. With a good, conversation-based adoption process in place, along with a short application, people who want animals for less-than-honorable purposes are not likely to try and adopt because they don’t want their actions to be documented by virtual or paper trails. That means, no matter what the adoption fee, as long as you have an effective adoption process, you can attract quality adopters. The ability of adopters to pay high adoption fees does not guarantee the quality of their homes or their future ability to support adopted pets. It also doesn’t ensure that pets will not be returned or given to another person. According to a study published in the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, people who adopted cats with waived fees had the same degree of attachment as those who paid fees. Additionally, the study found that eliminating fees did not devalue the cats in the eyes of the adopters. The longer animals stay in a shelter, the more likely it is that they may develop health and behavioral problems, which costs money to treat. That means reduced and no-fee adoptions may save us money because, the faster we find pets homes, the less we will spend on their care. Plus, the faster we help animals find homes, the happier and healthier they’ll be and more lives will be saved.