Duplicate from meganariley/shelter-dogs

Co-authored-by: Megan Riley <meganariley@users.noreply.huggingface.co>

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+---
+license: mit
+task_categories:
+  - text-classification
+  - sentence-similarity
+language:
+  - en
+tags:
+  - dogs
+  - adoption
+  - shelter
+  - petfinder
+  - animals
+  - pets
+size_categories:
+  - 10K<n<100K
+pretty_name: US Shelter Dogs (PetFinder Snapshot)
+---
+
+# 🐾 US Shelter Dogs — PetFinder Adoption Dataset
+
+A cleaned and enriched dataset of **49,036 real adoptable dogs** from US shelters and rescues, originally collected from the PetFinder API on September 20, 2019.
+
+## Dataset Description
+
+Each row represents a single adoptable dog with:
+- **Rich text descriptions** written by shelters/rescues (median 708 characters)
+- **Breed information** (216 unique breeds, primary + secondary + mixed flag)
+- **Demographics**: age class, sex, size, coat type
+- **Compatibility flags**: good with children, dogs, cats
+- **Training/needs**: house trained, special needs, vaccination status
+- **Location**: city and state
+- **PetFinder URL**: direct link to the dog's original listing
+
+### `match_text` Column
+A pre-built combined text field that merges the dog's structured metadata (name, breed, age, size, compatibility, training status) with their free-text description. Designed for semantic similarity matching with sentence-transformers.
+
+## Source
+
+Originally collected by [Amber Thomas](https://pudding.cool/author/amber-thomas/) for The Pudding's essay ["Finding Forever Homes"](https://pudding.cool/2019/10/shelters/) (October 2019). Raw data from [the-pudding/data](https://github.com/the-pudding/data/tree/master/dog-shelters).
+
+Data was collected via PetFinder's V2 API (`get-animals`) for all US states + DC. Descriptions were obtained via the V1 API. This dataset represents a single-day snapshot of all adoptable dogs on PetFinder.
+
+## Cleaning Applied
+
+1. Removed dogs without descriptions (8,705 rows) and very short descriptions < 30 chars (439 rows)
+2. Dropped administrative columns (`declawed`, `stateQ`, `accessed`, `type.x`, `type.y`, `org_id`, `contact_zip`, `contact_country`, `status`, `species`)
+3. Created `match_text` combining structured metadata + description for embedding
+4. Standardized boolean and compatibility columns
+
+## Column Reference
+
+| Column | Type | Description |
+|--------|------|-------------|
+| `id` | int | Unique PetFinder ID |
+| `url` | string | PetFinder listing URL |
+| `name` | string | Dog's name |
+| `breed_primary` | string | Primary breed (216 unique) |
+| `breed_secondary` | string | Secondary breed (if mixed) |
+| `breed_mixed` | bool | Whether mixed breed |
+| `age` | string | Baby, Young, Adult, Senior |
+| `sex` | string | Male, Female, Unknown |
+| `size` | string | Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large |
+| `coat` | string | Short, Medium, Long, Wire, Curly, Hairless |
+| `env_children` | string | yes / no / unknown |
+| `env_dogs` | string | yes / no / unknown |
+| `env_cats` | string | yes / no / unknown |
+| `house_trained` | bool | House trained status |
+| `special_needs` | bool | Has special needs |
+| `description` | string | Full shelter-written description |
+| `match_text` | string | Combined metadata + description for embedding |
+| `contact_city` | string | Shelter city |
+| `contact_state` | string | Shelter state |
+
+## Usage
+
+Used by the [Shelter Dog Personality Matcher](https://huggingface.co/spaces/meganariley/shelter-dog-matcher) Gradio Space — a quiz-based app that matches users to adoptable dogs using sentence-transformer semantic similarity.
+
+## Statistics
+
+- **49,036** dogs with descriptions
+- **216** unique primary breeds
+- **Age**: Adult (57%), Young (33%), Baby (19%), Senior (9%)
+- **Size**: Medium (61%), Large (32%), Small (24%), Extra Large (2%)
+- **Top breeds**: Pit Bull Terrier, Labrador Retriever, Chihuahua, Mixed Breed, Terrier
+- **All 50 US states + DC** represented
+
+## License
+
+The original data was collected from the publicly available PetFinder API. Released under MIT license for research and educational purposes.

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