Status

Description

Available for Adoption

The animal is available for adoption and will appear on the Animal List and Animal Browse web pages or be exported according to your organization’s service configuration.

Available for Sponsorship

The animal can be sponsored. You can learn more about sponsorships in the Sponsorships section of this User Guide.  These pets are not exported.

Adopted

The animal will appear on the Successes web page (if you have the Website Service) and will be listed on the adopted pets lists on the adoption listing web sites (as appropriate for your organization’s settings).

Hold and Pending

The hold and pending statuses do not appear to the public on the RescueGroups.org Web Site service.

Deleted

The animal information is no longer needed and is ready to be removed from the RescueGroups.org system (including pictures and all other related information).  Deleted information will appear on the Data Recovery page for 30 days when it will be purged from the database.

All Other Statuses

The animal is hidden from the public, and viewable only by your volunteers.

Status

Description

Available for Adoption

This status goes to the adoption listing websites as "Available" or "Adoptable," depending on their configuration.

Adopted

Adopted pets within the past six months export to Petfinder by default -- you can disable that option under Export Settings.  Adopt-a-Pet.com does not support FTP upload of adopted pets.  Adopted pets are also available via the RescueGroups.org API.

Hold and Pending

Animals with a status of Hold or Pending are not exported to Petfinder or Adopt-a-Pet.com.  We stopped exporting these statuses to Petfinder due to security concerns, as described in the following blog post:  http://www.rescuegroups.org/important-change-to-petfinder-and-sync-app-exports/

All Other Statuses

No other statuses are exported to the adoption listing websites.