Pawfect Match (AI Beta)

Every pet deserves a loving home, and every home deserves a pawfect pet. This AI-powered pet matchmaking tool ensures residents are connected to their ideal canine companions available at Miami-Dade County’s Animal Shelter.

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Ready to meet your match?

Start by telling us about your ideal canine companion, and let's find your Paw-fect Match today!

For example, "I am looking for a large, black dog that is active to fit my lifestyle."

Getting Started

- Tell Us About Your Dream Dog: Share your ideal dog's attributes, such as age, size, color and activity level.
- Let AI Do Its Magic: Our AI sifts through a database of adorable shelter dogs waiting for a forever home suited to their needs.
- Meet Your Matches: Obtain a curated list of available furry companions that match your criteria.
- Prepare Before You Adopt: This is a new way to identify desirable and available shelter dogs before making a visit to the shelter.
- Tailored Matches: Aligns available pups with your needs. See our pets by color, size, activity level, lifestyle, behavioral attributes and more.
- Support Miami-Dade County’s Animal Shelter: Every pet featured in Pawfect Match is ready for a loving home and with its advanced features, it will help minimize overcrowding in County shelters by properly matching pets with the owners of their dreams.
- Minimize Return Rates: Returning an adopted dog, you thought was ideal can be devastating, and Pawfect Match helps minimize the return rates by aligning residents with pets beyond their loveable physical features.
- I am looking for a large, black dog that is active to fit my lifestyle.
- I am looking for a small brown dog.
- I am looking for a dog that is not too active and under 3 years old.
- What is the youngest age of a dog available for adoption?

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