How does the shelter prescreen the cats for health and personality?
All shelters and rescues will have their own system for prescreening the cat for health and
adoptability. This is one of the questions that you should be armed with when you are
making your shelter visits to really determine what kind of background the organizations
are gathering on the cats. Also whether they have in-house veterinarian or they are using
a veterinarian in the community to do the health checks. Many shelters do have preset
assessment programs that are starting to sprout up. These programs come from national
organizations like the ASPCA, the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. They
have a wonderful blanketing program called Meet Your Match that we are utilizing here
in Washington. That actually gives shelter staff a guideline to perform internal
assessments to really again come up with these personalities that are inheriting each and
every animal including cats. So you do want to find out what kind of program maybe the
shelter has employed to determine again adaptability and health of any of these animals
that are in their care and to see if that is a good match for you when you are embarking on
this process.
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