Animal Welfare Professionals

This is a thorough SOP from Santa Barbara County Animal Services about how they address their urgent dogs' needs. ------------------------------ Rachel Jones Shelter Consultant www.rachelattheshelter.com ------------------------------ See More

Yes! I combing through all the great resources on Maddie's now. I do think we want to conduct some level of survey. I think our concern may be that if you are not an active foster but you were previously, you are not likely to respond to a survey. What audience did you target? The links in ... See More

Maddie's has a lot of great resources about foster recruitment if growth is your focus. As far as assessing how well your program is functioning as is, foster and staff feedback surveys are very easy/quick to implement and SO HELPFUL for providing a sense of direction and priority areas of improvement. ... See More

Registration is now open for the Best Friends National Conference happening July 11-13 in Orlando, FL. If you register by May 10 you'll receive $100 off the cost of registration. This year, we'll have 90+ informative sessions focused on how to reach or maintain no-kill status. In addition, we'll ... See More

We are entering into our strategic planning time and one of the things we are considering is how to conduct an assessment of our foster program network to improve the number of active foster homes. Has anyone out there already done this type of research? Where could I find published data on the information ... See More

This message was posted by a user wishing to remain anonymous Would anyone be able to share their SOP for concrete steps to take when we notice kennel stress in dogs? We don't currently have a protocol so when we notice those signs of stress, actions aren't taken quickly to try to mitigate it (ie that ... See More

Hello! My name is Tanner Tait, and I run Marketing for ASAP Cats, a cat-only shelter in sunny Santa Barbara, California. It's a pleasure to connect! Our cat shelter is looking for some advice regarding our intake process, specifically relating to laptops and wall mounts. In our New Arrivals suite, ... See More

Thank you for your reply. There's more to the story than I initially divulged.... We give her pet food every 2 months (50 lb bags) and have helped her on 4 separate occasions within a 1 year period for veterinary care we have also paid for her dog's seizure medication for at least 2 months. ... See More

Hey Gail! We use radios as well and have three separate buildings so our codes are super important to not confuse our citizens as they pass through. Here's what our Leadership team created (we also made stickers and put them on the back of the radios for our new team): Code 100 -Loose Animal ... See More