How Can We Help People To Choose The Right Shelter Dog?

INTRODUCTION
Key to the successful rehoming and adoption of shelter dogs is for the shelter and the potential adopters to take their responsibility. To adopt the right dog both have to invest maximal effort in contributing to create a match with the highest likelihood to develop a satisfying human-animal relationship in a living environment in which all can have a good quality of life.
The matching process should be based on developing an adequate profile of the dog to home or adopt. Developing an adequate profile of potential adopters and adequate matching of the dogs and adopters based on realistic and rational decision making of both the shelter staff and potential adopters, followed by individually tailored coaching or counselling after adoption.