Fun Fact: Potential adopters can still see your email address, so using this form is optional, however most adopters choose to use the form if available.
What are the benefits of using the Adoption Inquiry Form for our organization?
With your Adoption Inquiry Form turned ON, emails you receive from the public via the form automatically include a link to the pet's listing, the pet's name and ID#, and the public is prompted to include their phone number, email address, and city/state.
When a potential adopter fills out the form, our system will send you an email, and you can reply directly to the adopter. In the future, you'll be able to add custom fields to this form as well!
Pro Tip: For the Adoption Inquiry Form to work, be sure to check either "Email Address Only" or "Phone Number AND Email Address" under "Show Public". If "Phone Number Only" is checked, the Adoption Inquiry Form will not work.
As you can see from below, the form has checkboxes asking if inquirers want to opt-in to receive additional helpful communications from Adopt a Pet and our sponsors relating to pet adoption. We send people who ask about pets via the form a one-time follow-up email to find out if they've adopted yet. It asks "Have you adopted Fluffy" for instance and has a YES or NO button. Based on their answer we know if it would be appropriate to send them information about caring for a new pet or to invite them to tell us why they didn't adopt and encourage them to keep looking for a pet to adopt. This use of our site visitors' information and your shelter or rescue information is covered in more detail in our our Privacy Policy.