Animal Welfare Professionals

Hi! Up until a few years ago, we did not have air conditioning in our K9 area. It would get miserably hot for both the dogs and the staff. All of our dog kennels do have a small outside area. We can open the guillotine doors on nice days so that they can go in and out as they please. During a particularly ... See More

Hi! Our shelter is fortunate enough to have a small medical staff, so they usually do all of the medicating. If for some reason they cannot do it themselves, there is a small handful of the animal care staff that are trained/trusted to administer medications. ------------------------------ Erin ... See More

I think those are great goals - and I think you might get more interest simply by expanding your volunteers' involvement so they can interact with the pets and help at events! That's typically why people want to help at an animal shelter, in my opinion. If they can't actually walk dogs or play with cats, ... See More

We also spay for most pregnancies. If the animal is an owner-surrender (or an outdoor cat with a caretaker for our TNR program), we do let them have a say... but it's basically "can you foster and care for this family until the kittens or puppies are 8 weeks old?" and if the answer is "no," we are going ... See More

Does anyone have organisational risk built into there euthanasia policy's or procedures. its becoming more of a topic of conversation for us as falls separate to behavioural euthanasia but we don't have a risk matrix for org risk yet ------------------------------ Tom Candy behaviour and welfare ... See More

I know this might be a crazy question, but what did organizations do before social media? How did you advertise and fundraise? I'm asking seriously because I need to take a break from social media and obviously nonprofits existed long before social media was even an idea, long before the internet ... See More

What Cole said is absolutely spot on! Totally agree with every single point. The higher adoption fee IS gatekeeping those dogs for people who are more affluent and it reinforces the idea that they are more special or they matter more than other dogs. Reinforcement of that idea is what keeps breeders ... See More

Hello Zach, Until recently, I lived in the Phoenix area and volunteered with Desert Labrador Retriever Rescue so I know Heidi's Village very well! Great place! And you have that wonderful indoor space where you could add scent training to give the dogs an indoor activity. Here is a short clip ... See More

Thanks, Aaron ,for showing us the raffle set up. We are just about to roll out our new website. :o One of the biggies was choosing a platform and with so many people pretty ticked off when restaurants, etc are passing on/charging the credit fee that companies used to pay it's nice to have that as an ... See More