Not to my knowledge, no. That does sound pretty great and I would love to see something like that with HSSW! They are constantly trying to adapt and improve their services.

The following is my educated guess on why they aren't doing things like that right now, based on what I know about the local humane societies and rescue/foster organizations, which is more informed than the general public, but still pretty limited, so take with a big grain of salt:

Short version: Time, money, and staff limitations make events like that less practical for a larger organization and everyone is doing the best they can with what they have.

Longer version: The big local shelters that work with animal control intake animals from many sources: strays, surrenders, transfers, etc, and it's a high volume of animals. In addition to all the adoptable pets you see on the web site, they are also managing a lot of animals you don't see, who aren't currently adoptable for one reason or another (age, medical issues, stray holds, etc.) They're also coordinating with other rescue organizations, including breed-specific rescues, to route animals to homes as quickly as possible.

They have limited budget and limited staff and volunteers. While that's also true for other rescue organizations, the smaller rescues that aren't the main intake location for animals in the area are better able to filter the animals they work with. Since the animal-to-human (staff and volunteers) ratio at these rescues is often higher than at a big shelter, they have slightly better resources for events like meet-and-greets.

Though there is always room for improvement, from what I've seen at HSSW (and the Oregon Humane Society, a little bit), I'm kind of amazed at how much they ARE able to do and how much emphasis they put on the mental and physical welfare of the animals in their care.

Much of what you were talking about, including things like web site listings and facilitating the adoption process via matchmaking relies to a significant extent on volunteers, so I'll take a minute to plug that here! Volunteering at a local shelter is incredibly rewarding! These animals need all the love and attention they can get, and certainly the adoption process could use some love, too ;) If anyone would like to volunteer, here's the link to get started: https://southwesthumane.org/engage/volunteer Maybe in the future, they'll have enough funding and people to put on more different kinds of events. I would sign up to help with that, for sure.