Animal Shelter Partnerships
Adopting Wild Tunes at your shelter offers a unique enrichment opportunity for your animals that also creates a soothing and welcoming environment. Use the power of music to reduce stress and help pets form stronger connections with people.
By partnering with Wild Tunes, your shelter can stand out as an innovative leader in animal welfare, while improving outcomes for the animals in your care. And, since we know you are already busy, we’ve prepared a comprehensive toolkit to give you everything needed to start and run your turnkey program.
Benefits for an Animal Shelter
As a Wild Tunes partner, your shelter can expect a seamless, hassle-free program designed to enrich the lives of your animals and enhance their adoptability—all at no cost to you.
Volunteers will bring live music directly to your shelter, creating a calming atmosphere for pets and a welcoming environment for potential adopters and fosters. Our team works closely with you to ensure the program fits effortlessly into your operations, making it an easy and impactful way to support your animals and engage your community.
Build Goodwill
Strengthen community connections by showing your commitment to innovative and compassionate care for shelter animals.
Broaden Outreach
Attract music-loving volunteers and visitors who may become fosters, adopters, or volunteers.
Create Community
Bring joy and connection to visitors, staff, and volunteers through live music.
Enhance Enrichment
Offer pets meaningful activity and human interaction without any cost or additional strain on staff resources.
How to Get Started
Reach Out
Set up a short introductory call to learn about the program, benefits, and the tools available to make your program a success.
Sign Up
When you enroll, Wild Tunes will provide an orientation packet with templates and best practices to support your program.
Schedule
Use your existing shelter volunteer software or processes to seamlessly add Wild Tunes shifts to your schedule.
PROGRAM GUIDELINES
Shelter Staff Intervention:
The program is designed to take minimal time for the shelter staff and fit seamlessly into your volunteer program, including participation in your standard volunteer orientation and check in/check out procedures. Ideally, the volunteers will be self-sufficient and able to set up wherever staff deems it appropriate.
Volunteer Training:
All volunteers must undergo the respective volunteer training required by your shelter. While the intention is to provide a positive and enjoyable experience for the animals, the interactions between the volunteers and animals are the sole responsibility of the participating animal shelters and their authorized representatives. Wild Tunes acts as a facilitator to connect shelters and volunteers but is not directly involved in overseeing the interactions.
Program Frequency:
The program will work best if there are shifts available several times a week allowing a steady stream of volunteers to play music for the animals at designated times.
Safety Measures:
Animal shelters are expected to implement appropriate safety measures to ensure the well-being of all animals and volunteers, such as providing . guidelines for the duration of sessions, appropriate types of music, and volume levels. The Wild Tunes experience does not include animal handling. Any such activity would be done as a shelter volunteer under your program.
Parental/Guardian Consent:
If the volunteers are minors, parental or legal guardian consent is required for their participation. Also, parental supervision is necessary during the volunteer sessions in accordance with your shelter’s requirements.
Support from Wild Tunes:
When a shelter enrolls in the Wild Tunes program, we will provide a welcome kit with all required information to implement the program.
For additional information about the Wild Tunes program contact its director, Priyanka Agarwal, at priyanka@wildtunes.org.