Meet Your Match

Have you heard about this innovative new method for matching cats and dogs with potential adopters? The program's Adopter Survey and Canine-ality™, Puppy-ality™, or Feline-ality™ Assessment™ and fun color-coding system fit together like the pieces of a puzzle, creating picture-perfect adoptions for shelter animals and their new owners.

It’s fun and it’s got serious science behind it. Developed by the ASPCA and Emily Weiss, Ph.D., C.A.A.B., the program uses proven behavior assessments to predict how a shelter dog, puppy, or cat may behave in his or her new home for the first several weeks. The assessments are used with innovative adopter surveys to match adopters with appropriate animals.

It’s also highly effective. Shelters using the ASPCA’s Meet Your Match™ report reduced return rates, better customer service and increased adoptions; and the use of this science-based methodology also helps them to better highlight the animals they have available for adoption.

Since its first implementation in shelters in 1999-2000, the SAFER™ Assessment, also developed by Dr. Weiss, has helped animal welfare professionals all over the country identify potential aggression and opportunities for behavior modification. The ASPCA acquired the SAFER™ Assessment in 2007, which has given us opportunities to save far more lives through the ASPCA’s national reach. 

Meet Your Match Feline-ality

Download our Cat Adoptor Survey

Meet Your Match Canine-ality

Download our Dog Adoptor Survey

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