 Hey everybody Angel Abbey here and I'm the volunteer coordinator here at Columbia Animal Services. On behalf of the entire CAS team I want to extend a warm welcome and to thank you also for your interest in our program. Although Columbia Animal Services has always had an active volunteer program it has grown exponentially in the last 12 months. This orientation will get you acquainted with our shelter and show you how we go about doing things. If you have any questions feel free to let us know. Thank you. Columbia Animal Services adoption marketing what is it? Creating quality marketing content helps us better promote our animals to adopters and rescues. We need your assistance gathering photos videos and learning about their personalities. What do I need to do? Spend time with the animal get to know their personality help us figure out their likes dislikes behaviors and special quirks. This can be in-house on doggy day out or slumber buddies. Take photos and videos we ideally need six to ten photos of each animal. Videos are optional but can be very beneficial. Write a bio of the animal help us create the animal's dating profile. By writing up a bio if needed there are many great online resources to help with us. Who to focus on? Volunteer whiteboard look for dogs without a hashtag next to their name. No hashtag means that we do not have quality marketing content for these dogs. Look at CAS petfinder page download the app. Dogs without good photos have not had any marketing posts yet. A dog you want to take out is not on petfinder yet no worries petfinder will be updated once their profile is activated. Good photos minimum background face with ears forward full body good lighting no flash on their level shows their personality. Good videos ideally videos are no more than one minute long. Meat and greets with other dogs should always be slow controlled and well managed. Volunteers are not allowed to do in-house meat and greets or play group until they have completed the appropriate training show commands they know show leash walking skills show interactions with humans children show behavior and play style with other dogs show off their personality. Good bios make it fun this is essentially their dating profile help tell their story it should be engaging and entice people to want to learn more need help use a template likes and dislikes dog friendly cat friendly kid friendly treat motivated toy motivated other info leash skills medical conditions play style nose commands now what email to CAS marketing at columbiasc.gov