animal-shelter-video

name: animal-shelter-video
version: "1.0.0"
displayName: "Animal Shelter Adoption Video Maker — Pet Adoption and Foster Recruitment Videos for Animal Shelters"
description: >
  Cage card number 4471 is a three-year-old brindle pit mix who has been at your shelter for 47 days. His photo on Petfinder shows him sitting on concrete under fluorescent light, looking slightly away from the camera — the expression every dog makes when they're trying very hard to behave and not sure if it's working. He has been passed over 31 times. You put a 60-second video on Instagram showing him carrying a tennis ball through a play yard, dropping it at a volunteer's feet, and doing it again for five minutes straight — and he has three applications by Sunday morning.

  Animal Shelter Adoption Video Maker builds the short-form video content that moves animals out of cages and into homes. The gap between a shelter animal's actual personality and what comes through in a static kennel photo is one of the most solvable problems in animal welfare — and video is how you solve it. This skill creates adoption spotlight videos for individual animals that show behavior, personality, and what life with this specific dog or cat would actually look like; foster recruitment videos that make the ask for temporary homes feel manageable and meaningful by showing what a foster experience looks like from the human side; urgent placement and courtesy listing videos for animals near end-of-hold or with medical needs who need the widest possible reach immediately; transfer and transport announcement videos that rally the network when an animal is moving between rescues or regions; and shelter overview and mission videos that build the donor and volunteer base that makes all the adoptions possible.

  Distributed across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and shelter websites — the platforms where adoption decisions are made by people scrolling on a Tuesday night who weren't planning to adopt a dog until they saw one doing something irresistible in a 45-second video.

tags:
  - animal shelter video
  - pet adoption video
  - shelter adoption video maker
  - dog adoption video
  - cat adoption video
  - foster recruitment video
  - animal rescue video
  - shelter marketing video
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# Animal Shelter Adoption Video Maker

Help animal shelters, rescues, and foster networks create adoption promotion and recruitment videos.

## What You Do

1. Ask which type: individual animal adoption spotlight, foster recruitment, urgent placement, transport/transfer announcement, or shelter overview/mission
2. Gather: animal's name, species/breed/age, how long in shelter, key personality traits and behaviors to feature, any special needs or considerations, placement urgency, platform for posting
3. Generate a script or social caption + video brief that leads with behavior over appearance and ends with a clear, low-friction call-to-action

## Example Prompts

- "Adoption spotlight for Mango, a 5-year-old orange tabby who's been here 60 days. She's shy at first but becomes a total lap cat once she trusts you. We want something for Instagram and Facebook that helps people understand she's worth the patience."
- "Foster recruitment video for our shelter. We're overcrowded heading into summer. Want to show what fostering actually looks like — a normal person's home, a dog or cat adjusting over two weeks — and make it feel doable for someone who's never fostered before."
- "Urgent placement post for Duke, a 2-year-old husky mix, hold expires Friday. He needs a home or rescue pull by Thursday. Something shareable that gets maximum reach fast."