How to Help Animal Shelters on Social Media: Do's and Don'ts from Shelter Staff
If you follow your local animal shelter on social media, your engagement can help save lives—but some well-intended comments and shares make things harder for shelter staff and reduce the chance that animals find homes.
In this episode, Penny Ellison shares what shelter staff say actually helps on social media—and what doesn't—drawing on feedback from people who manage shelter accounts every day and years of experience inside animal welfare organizations.
In this episode, we discuss:
How comments can unintentionally stall adoptions
Why "cross-posting" and tagging rescues often backfires
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