London, 15th November 2022 – Developed by experts in the fields of animal welfare, dog behaviour, training, and education specialists, the “Shelter Adoption Academy” offers knowledge to support a range of practical skills that will help rescue centre staff and volunteers overcome the most common obstacles to adoption and increase the number of their animals finding new forever homes. 

This programme comes at a time where rescue centres across the world are seeing a rise in the number of pets coming through their doors. Reasons behind the animals being handed over vary from economic factors, including the wake of the global pandemic, to the war in Ukraine. A global cost-of-living crisis and rise in energy prices, has meant thousands of pets have become too expensive to care for, meaning they are often heart-breakingly relinquished to rescue centres. 

Its global release follows a successful pilot with a public dog shelter in Ukraine which resulted in a 70% increase in pets being adopted. 

At present, the UK is home to around 1000 rescue centres, which see an estimated 2.7 million animals come through their doors each year. 

Companion animals find themselves at shelters for a plethora of reasons and through no fault of their own, confused, scared and alone. This training course supports already knowledgeable staff in caring for them during this time and ensuring they can match families with the perfect dog for their way of living. 

The Shelter Adoption Academy will be available online in November 2022 in English and in Ukrainian.