WHAT. AN. AMAZING. YEAR. Let’s whiz through some of the highlights from an epic year that saw some truly great outcomes for at-risk pets.
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Pets listed in 2018 racked up an eye-watering 33,199,672 views!
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We sent 7.5 million PetRescue Alert emails to potential adopters (nearly double what we sent in 2017!)
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A mahoosive milestone was reached - half a million pets adopted!
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We celebrated $10m of freebies for members in three years
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We were a Silver Rescue Supporter of the inaugural Companion Animal Rescue Awards, with our very own Vix as a judge - and we were SO impressed with all the winners, finalists and entrants
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We launched a new Listings API, allowing members that use Animal Shelter Manager (and other platforms) to push pet listings directly to PetRescue
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The pet listings donation button was launched, allowing members of the public to donate directly to rescue groups from PetRescue
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A record number of pets were transported on free flights via the PetRescue and Jetpets free flights program
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170,000 enquiries about pets were sent via PetRescue
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We rebuilt the entire search functionality on the site, adding new search filters and consolidating search into our existing dev stack
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Adopter Profiles launched, serving up the important info right from the get-go
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The Shy Cats & Senior Citizens program helped some hard-to-rehome shy cats finally find loving homes!
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We brought together PEDIGREE and Woolworths for a major project that brought rescue pets into the national spotlight and delivered $1 million of pet food for at-risk pets
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We organised our first-ever bird food donation... and got to legitimately use an image of a rubber duckie in lederhosen!
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We made 1,845 commits to the PetRescue website codebase
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The May 2018 food donation was the biggest in the program's history, with $1.3 million of food distributed to 256 of our members
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We partnered with the University of Sydney to recruit respondents for their PAWS pilot study
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We partnered with the Australian Pet Welfare Foundation and industry leaders for first-ever urban cat desexing research trial
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We buddied up with Moose Toys to promote compassion for rescue pets to the next generation of animal advocates
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We launched the Member News Alert email system, allowing us to quickly fire off message alerts to all members, so you’ll never miss an opportunity
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We launched an automated inactive group pathway to help ensure pet listings and Rescue Directory listings are up to date
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We added confetti whenever a pet is marked as adopted, because although we know rescue is serious business, every adoption deserves a celebration, and we want you to feel good about the good stuff!
Phew, that about covers most of the highlights! Now, do you have an awesome idea for 2019? We’d love to hear it. You can send your feedback, your dev wishlist and your other big hairy ideas to members@petrescue.org.au.