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  • 1.  Community handouts/ education

    Posted 07-01-2025 09:32 AM

    Does anyone have any flyers/handouts they can share?  We were invited to attend a Park Day in an area that has lots of lost dogs, dogs at large, and other issues with pet ownership.  We were asked to bring handouts for adults (I have a ton of stuff geared toward kids). 

    Thanks, 

    Amber


    #EducationandTraining

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    amber francisco
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  • 2.  RE: Community handouts/ education

    Posted 07-01-2025 11:21 AM

    A lot of our handouts are very location-specific. We give out things about spay/neuter clinics (especially free ones) in our area, microchip clinics, that sort of thing.



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    Lucretia Worster
    Foster Mentor/Treasurer
    Action 4 Animals Hawaii
    HI
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  • 3.  RE: Community handouts/ education

    Posted 8 days ago

    Going on the premise there are no dumb questions...

    How did you find all this info for your community? I'd love to put something like this together.  Our sanctuary aims to educate our community since there's a lot of issues here.



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    Bre Hoffman (they/m)
    Special Little Whiskers Sanctuary Decatur IL
    SpecialLittleWhiskersKittenRescue.com
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  • 4.  RE: Community handouts/ education

    Posted 9 days ago

    I have similiar questions. There are a bunch of edcuational flyers you can find on fb that certain people create for any topic. for example, plants that are poisonous to cats. I have approached a couple of these individuals to see if we can share as education on our social media for an animal rescue. so i would search on fb for community cat education for example. Chatgpt can help to create educational pages for yourself. Lastly, I would search in here on maddies forum for materials. that is my next step. Good luck.



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    Christine Fredericks
    Volunteer
    Hope for All Pets, Inc
    Richmond
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  • 5.  RE: Community handouts/ education

    Posted 8 days ago

    A good resource for owners  looking for a lost cat:   https://www.lostcatfinder.com/lost-cat-resources



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    Kim Freeman
    Lost Cat Finder
    LOST CAT FINDERS
    Atlanta GA
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  • 6.  RE: Community handouts/ education

    Posted yesterday

    This is the exact problem we're trying to solve, so I'll share what we're building in case it's useful to any of you.

    Everyone here is describing the same scramble. Good handouts exist, but they're scattered across Facebook, buried in old forum threads, or locked in one org's Google Drive, and every group ends up rebuilding the same flyer from scratch. Lucretia's right that a lot of it has to be location-specific, the free spay/neuter clinic near you, the microchip event, the local low-cost vet, but the framework of a good handout doesn't have to be reinvented every time.

    We run a prevention-first nonprofit in Central Alabama, and we're building a shared Resource Library inside our partner network so any organization plugged in can pull vetted handouts, guides, and local resource lists instead of starting over. The idea is simple. Collect it once, vet it, tag it so it's searchable, and let everyone share it. Kim's lost cat resource is a great example of the kind of thing that belongs in a library like that, one solid resource that any group can hand a worried owner.

    Amber, for an adult crowd at a park day with lots of loose and lost dogs, the handouts that tend to land are the practical, no-shame ones. What to do the first 24 hours your dog goes missing, how to reunite a found dog with its owner before assuming it's a stray, why microchipping and a collar tag matter and where to get it done cheap locally, and a simple list of low-cost spay/neuter and vet help in your area. Adults take the flyer that solves a problem they might actually have, not the one that lectures them.

    Happy to compare notes with anyone building the same kind of library. No sense all of us collecting the same resources separately.



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    Join The Shift To Prevention.

    BJ Adkins
    Founder/Director
    Animal-Angels Foundation
    Pinson, AL
    calendy.com/animal-angels
    bjadkins@animal-angels.org
    animal-angelsfoundation.org
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  • 7.  RE: Community handouts/ education

    Posted 14 hours ago

    Hi. Do you have handouts for cats? Or do you focus on dogs?



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    Bre Hoffman (they/m)
    Special Little Whiskers Sanctuary Decatur IL
    SpecialLittleWhiskersKittenRescue.com
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  • 8.  RE: Community handouts/ education

    Posted 11 hours ago

    Bre, good question, and I want to be straight with you. What we are building is a shared resource library for our partner network, and it is species-agnostic by design, dogs and cats both, because the problems that put a pet at risk do not care which one it is. That said, I will be honest, a lot of what exists out there skews dog-heavy, and cat-specific community education is thinner than it should be. So we are actively collecting the good cat resources, not treating them as an afterthought.

    For your world specifically, the cat pieces worth having in any library are the community cat and TNR basics, what to do if you find kittens (the leave them or take them decision that people get wrong constantly), indoor enrichment for keeping cats happy inside, and lost cat recovery, which is its own skill because cats hide instead of run. If it helps, Kim who commented above runs Lost Cat Finder and has solid free cat recovery material, that is exactly the kind of thing we pull into a library so every partner can hand it out instead of hunting for it.

    Since you are a kitten rescue, you probably have or could make cat education others need. That is the whole point of a shared library, you contribute what you know, you pull what you do not have. Happy to compare notes.



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    Join The Shift To Prevention.

    BJ Adkins
    Founder/Director
    Animal-Angels Foundation
    Pinson, AL
    calendy.com/animal-angels
    bjadkins@animal-angels.org
    animal-angelsfoundation.org
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  • 9.  RE: Community handouts/ education

    Posted 11 hours ago

    I couldn't have said it better. I'm headed to your websites now. can we use materials providing we give you credit and don't modify them?

    Thank You



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    [Christine] [Fredericks]
    [Volunteer]
    [Hope for All Pets, Inc.]
    [Bronston] [KY]
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  • 10.  RE: Community handouts/ education

    Posted 10 hours ago

    We have a lot of resources we're starting to add to our Resource Library in our partner app - Animal Welfare Resource Network (AWRN) so that partners who join (free btw) have a vetted AI searchable resource library. Not just our resources. If there's any in particular you're looking for I'd be happy to se if we have them. and I'll be happy to send them to you. Any of ours you are free to use as long as you give us credit etc



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    Join The Shift To Prevention.

    BJ Adkins
    Founder/Director
    Animal-Angels Foundation
    Pinson, AL
    calendy.com/animal-angels
    bjadkins@animal-angels.org
    animal-angelsfoundation.org
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