Searching For Puppy Love?

Looking for “the right one” is not easy, and that applies for both human and pooch partners! Potential paw-rents in the U.S. can now look forward to finding the perfect match through an online “dating” website that matches their personality with rescue dogs, helping in the process of adoption and re-homing.

Pets Team 01 December 2015

(Image credit: pawslikeme.com)

Online dating is not new, and it has helped many people find their soul mates. By taking the same tried-and-tested concept into the doggy world, PawsLikeMe.com is a platform for humans to find their best friend for life! Branding themselves as “the eHarmony for pets and people”, the U.S.-based website matches users to their furry Mr Right through a personality assessment.

The assessment is very detailed: It requires users to describe themselves, choosing from choices like “caring” or “logical”, and “impatient” or “easy-going”. Users will also have to agree or disagree with statements such as “I prefer a quiet evening at home to a social outing with friends”. According to the website, their matching system has been proven to be over 90 percent accurate, based upon four core personality traits that affect human-dog relations, namely energy, focus, confidence and independence. Now, if only dating websites for humans were this spot on too!

Not only does this website help pet shelters quicken the adoption process and ensure that the new owners are the right fit, those who have to leave their precious furkids for various circumstances can use the website to “date”, to find their pets the paw-fect new owner. PawsLikeMe allows users to re-home their dogs, which is a much-needed comfort especially considering the shocking statistic that 50% of all pets that enter U.S. shelters are euthanised. It is no doubt that all of us would want our precious furkid to brighten up the home of someone who can love and care for them the same way we have.

While it sounds like a dream, a website like PawsLikeMe could give potential paw-rents too high an expectation. The website gives the impression that Fido would immediately live up to all their needs and wants, but it’s wise for users to keep in mind that that is not always the case. Adopting a pet—especially one that has had a previous owner—requires consistent effort to establish a connection and build trust.

Still, PawsLikeMe definitely brings us one step closer to alleviating pet abandonment and animal euthanasia issues. At the moment, the services offered only cater to dogs, but feline-matching is on its way! Did we also mention that the assessment is free for all to take? So yes - for all those of you who are not able to care for a furry friend as of yet, you can still hop over to the website and catch a glimpse of your dream puppy!