Cute Photo Booth Sessions Help Shelter Dogs Get Adopted In Utah, Increasing Adoption Rates To 93.26 Percent

The Humane Society of Utah got some help from pet photographer Guinnevere Shuster to help showcase the true personalities of the dogs in their care. The dogs are placed in a photo booth while photos are snapped. The result is adorable and has skyrocketed adoption rates at the shelter. In fact, adoption rates for pets who are photographed in the photo booth is 93.26 percent!

Bored Panda points out that the goal of the photo booth session is to showcase what the dogs are really like.

“[The Humane Society of Utah] aims to show these dogs the way they’d really look if you allowed them into your life – out from behind the metal bars that contain them at the shelters they live in.”

The Human Society of Utah is proud of their new program and Shuster says that it is a huge success. Shuster claims that almost all the dogs who are photographed in the photo booth are adopted within a couple days with some dogs causing doors to be flooded with potential adopters upon opening.

“It helps a great deal, almost all of these dogs have been adopted within a couple days of being posted, some even have people lining up at the front door before we open”.

So what is so special about the photo booth photos? Take a look at a few of the dogs below to see for yourself.

Shuster told DIY Photography that she is only able to photograph about two dogs per week in the photo booth due to time restrictions, but has already photographed 70 dogs with a 93.26 percent adoption rate. Shuster says she focuses her efforts on dogs that won’t do as well in a shelter environment and ones that would have a more difficult time being adopted.

You can check out all the latest photo booth session on the Humane Society of Utah Facebook page.

Shuster isn’t the first photographer to put dogs in a photo booth. In fact, one photographer used a photo booth to challenge the way the public perceived pit bulls.

[Image Credit: Human Society of Utah]