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The internet, in all its vastness, can be pretty wonderful sometimes. Even, it seems, for shelter pets! If you troll the internet regularly, you may have heard of something called 'chat roulette'. For anyone who doesn't know...it seems to be the latest invention in randomized chatting. It's as simple as going to a website and clicking a button. From there you can be connected, by keyboard or web-cam, to a random other user somewhere in the world who just so happened to click that button the same time you did. If you don't like who you're talking to...simply click next. This concept has since become tremendously popular throughout the world.

You're wondering what exactly this has to do with shelter pets...right? The connection lies with Michael Ayalon, of PetWebDesigner.com. He came up with the idea when faced with a frustrating problem, the current shelter adoption process. No matter how many wonderful pets the shelters of America house, it is difficult to not be distracted by the many crying, whining, barking faces, so desperate for love and attention. It's also a poor depiction of the home setting you will bring your new family member into.
When chat roulette was applied to the Kent Animal Shelter in Long Island, New York...it became 'animal roulette'. A program was developed by Ayalon so that potential pet adopters could, from the comfort of their own home, sit on a web-cam in front of an adoptable pet who is also in front of a web-cam. Viewers can interact with the shelter staff and ask questions about the pet they're viewing. As well, if they aren't interested in the pet on screen...they can simply click next and will be taken to a different video chat with a different adoptable pet. The program is more versatile and invites viewers to see pets in a more comfortable setting. It is, as well...on it's way to success.

While currently only available on Saturdays, many animals have been already adopted through this program. When it was first launched it was only available to dogs, but...on it's very first day, 15 were adopted from the shelter. Imagine the lives that could be saved if programs like this were implemented across the country. Even if a shelter only has the time to give a few hours to a dozen pets once a week, if all those pets found loving homes, it would be well worth the effort. Cheap innovation is what shelters already strapped for cash desperately need, and this provides it. Perhaps this is one way they all can become no-kill shelters.

To learn more visit http://www.animalroulette.com/. 

Liane Thixton
(yes...daughter of Susan Thixton)

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