You can make people fall in love with animals, so much so that they adopt them.
That was the theme of the part 2 of "Building a No-Kill Community" workshop, presented Sunday morning by Bonney Brown, executive director of the Nevada Humane Society.
She emphasized making it easy on the adopter by making it a pleasant experience. She also suggested that by lowering adoption fees, you can save more lives. Some rescue groups believe impulse adoptions aren't good things. She asked attendees, "How many of you have impulse rescued?" Nearly everyone in the room raised their hands. "Impulse adoptions aren't bad," she said. "Impulses can be noble and good."
I couldn't agree more. Ten years ago, I went to a PetsMart in Las Vegas to buy cat food. Instead, I went home with a puppy -- a Best Friends' puppy. I had no intentions of adopting, but I'm one of those people Bonney described who, on impulse, decide to adopt a pet when they aren't planning.
Great advice, Bonney.
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