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Sarah, this is exactly the kind of failure I was hoping people would be honest about, so thank you. We hit the same wall, hard. We call it Finder-to-Foster, and early on we did it on a handshake, the See More

Hi, You can find it here Handout: Spectrum of FAS for Cats along with FAS scale for dogs and other resources You can also find body language resources including identifying pain in cats at See More

Hello, I am struggling to find the print out for the FAS meter. Where could I find this? I want to suggest use of it at the shelter I work at. ------------------------------ Tisha Adams Rescue Coordinator See More

All of Revival kitten formulas are out of stock and when called, were told they are being refomulated and won't be available until October. Is there a recall on the kitten formula? People have been complaining See More

We partner closely with our local animal shelter, and their intake appointments are currently scheduled through the end of July. As you can imagine, they are receiving significant pushback from community See More

Its not necessarily a program, however we have tried "finder fosters" or "owner fosters" - where we agree to take on the animal(s) if the person with them now continues to foster them until adoption. See More

Dogs often face sudden accidents, wounds, fractures, and other life-threatening injuries that require immediate attention to prevent serious complications or death. Knowing emergency treatment for injured See More

What an amazing story, thank you so much for sharing, and I'm so incredibly happy that Willa and her person were reunited. I believe in this profession, it's so easy to lose hope that there's somebody See More

Hi Sophia, Our shelter currently uses ShelterLuv, and while I'm not as familiar with Shelterbuddy and Adopets, I can confidently say that ShelterLuv is the correct choice for our shelter. With ShelterLuv, See More

Hi Laurie, don't hesitate to reach out if you ever want to chat more about using data to help identify and track needs and successes. My email is cameron.moore@ufl.edu and I love talking about data! See More

We don't have a nursery, we're all foster-based and take in about 1,000 neonates a year. Mostly looking for their updated medical protocols. We based ours on theirs and have heard that there are updates, See More

Hi BJ, I appreciate your response as a whole, as I do get waved off a lot in this space. I worked as a veterinary nurse in ER and ICU for 6 years and also specialized in oncology. After leaving the See More

Maria, this is the most useful pushback in the thread, and you are not wrong, so I want to engage it honestly rather than wave it off. What you are describing is real. You see the downstream data almost See More

Katheryn, you are not guessing, you are right, and there is research that backs you to the letter, which matters for you as a grant writer. On dropping the vet and landlord checks, that is not just a See More

Hi Katheryn, Our foundation supports economically disadvantaged families through emergency veterinary care grants and wraparound services to empower economic mobility for owners. Our team specializes See More

If I could change on thing about our shelter, it would be a few of the adoption and foster policies, we have in place. Specifically, I would lower our 21 and up age policy to allowing people 18 and older See More

One of our biggest ways that we have been able to increase volunteer retention is by helping to foster and build relationships among the volunteers. We had a buddy/mentor system with our volunteers that See More

Following! ------------------------------ Kendra Brady Educator/Volunteer Coordinator Hitchcock Road Animal Services CA ------------------------------

Hi Laurie,We are so happy to found the session helpful. I can promise you that Cameron and I have learned so much doing consults and think so differently now about a lot of things. As you can see, we are See More

Hi Mandy, This is something that National Kitten College is working closely with the Shelter Medicine Programs to put together. We recently launched this guidebook that is a living library so will be See More

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At this month's Shelter Med LIVE: When that 70-pound dog won't stop spinning and snapping, or the senior cat wants to lash out from the crate, is your team prepared to respond in a way that won't cause See More

Thank you for such an informative session. Many of the points you shared really resonate with what we experience at our rescue. From the challenges of dogs being abandoned to the overwhelming pace that See More

We use simple SOP-style training guides for consistency. For dog meet & greets, it's all about controlled introductions and reading body language early. Disease prevention focuses on strict hygiene, PPE, See More

What an incredibly moving story - I'm so glad Willa made it back home after such a long journey. It really shows how important community effort, persistence, and shelters working together can be in reuniting See More

We keep circling the same gap in these threads, the field underinvests in its own people, and then wonders why management and retention are hard. So here is the part worth saying out loud: the education See More

BJ, now you just made my day too!! Yes, please connect me with Sara and I will ad Sunny into any exchange as well. I am not the children person, but she is. What I 'got into' is simply a very close seat See More

Thank you! ------------------------------ Tonya Smith Founder LC'S Foundation Michigan ------------------------------

Pilu, this made my day. You picked up exactly the thread I was hoping someone would. You and I land in the same place on this. The system changes through the kids, and the adults follow them. There is See More

This was just beautiful intel discovered in time. One of our longterm fosters from another foster based rescue will be looking now into childrens animal welfare education here on the Reservations in See More

Tami, I am going to give you the honest version instead of the cheerleading version, because you are an evaluator and you will see through the cheerleading anyway. Our own humane education work is just See More

Susan, first, I cannot fix the Arizona heat, so you are on your own there. Everything else you said, I can meet you on, because the program you described already has a name and we are building it. A mobile, See More

Beverly, your two answers are in tension, and the second one is the stronger bet. A new building with an in-house vet is the expensive, fixed answer. It is also the one the families in underserved counties See More

Janet, you are already running the model most of this thread is only describing. A food pantry and a free spay/neuter program in a poor east Tennessee county is the upstream work, and you are naming the See More

Reply to Rachel: Rachel, the humility in your post is exactly why your read is worth listening to. You are not guessing from a desk, you are seeing it from inside the kennels. On pay, you are naming See More

Kallie, the cat tax is real, and you can read it straight off the outcomes. In the rural county I am working right now, dogs leave the shelter alive about 87 percent of the time. Cats, 55 percent for the See More

Audrey, this is exactly the kind of response I was hoping the thread would pull out, because you are living the thing I can only see from the outside. You named the two hard edges better than I did. First, See More

I am very fortunate to work for a wonderful senior dog sanctuary, and I can't think of anything I would change (except maybe the heat in Arizona)! I wish we could help more dogs, but I don't know if it's See More

Hi Destiny, Thank you for using technology to help shelters save lives, especially kitten lives. I hope you'll share the incubator article with any organizations you work with that you think would be helped See More

Hi, Thanks for posting! I've been looking at research on this lately, as we have some relevant findings from our 2024 National Foster Survey that we're hoping to publish (basically, the more requirements See More

I want to share a story from a recent event that took place at our shelter. I think positive social media experiences let alone positive shelter experiences are far and few between. Luckily this is one See More

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That is amazing! We love hearing about younger people being so dedicated to animal welfare. We are on social media. be sure to search our page for kangaroos, we had a mob of kangaroos, wallaby and wallaroo See More