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  • 1.  Friendly Signage for Available Animals on Bite Quarantine?

    Posted 08-20-2024 10:13 AM

    Hi All,

    I'm looking for less terrifying kennel signage for animals that are available for adoption or foster, but are on bite quarantine.

    Does anyone have an example you've used or seen and liked?

    Thank you!


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    Amber Freiwald
    Director of Foster and Volunteers
    Humane Rescue Alliance
    DC
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  • 2.  RE: Friendly Signage for Available Animals on Bite Quarantine?

    Posted 08-20-2024 10:08 PM

    Our animals on bite quarantine aren't available during their quarantine time. But, for animals that tend to bite or be scared we make signs not to stick fingers in kennels as the animals are shy and still warming up to people. 



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    Stefanie Schmidt
    Animal Welfare Specialist
    Hearts Alive Village
    NV
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  • 3.  RE: Friendly Signage for Available Animals on Bite Quarantine?

    Posted 08-21-2024 06:46 AM

    Changing your adoption process to a conversation based program that doesn't allow adopters to walk thru the kennels will also solve this.  This would also allow the  adoption consultant to match an adopter with a dog on bite quarantine (although the reasons a dog is actually adoptable  with a bite history is so limited) and explain the circumstances of the bite and reason the shelter still feels it is an adoptable dog.



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    Cheri Jenkins
    board member
    Williston Animal Group
    FL
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  • 4.  RE: Friendly Signage for Available Animals on Bite Quarantine?

    Posted 08-21-2024 06:49 AM

    Our bite quarantine animals are removed from public areas and typically removed from our available listings on our website while in quarantine. If we decide to keep them online, we'd simply say they'll be available for meetings after whatever date the bite quarantine ends. But protocols are pretty strict in who handles and interacts with bite cases and there's no way we'd be able to keep them out where the general public could put fingers in cages.



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    Sam Maurice
    Humane Society of Jefferson County
    Jefferson WI
    https://hsjc-wis.com
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  • 5.  RE: Friendly Signage for Available Animals on Bite Quarantine?

    Posted 08-21-2024 06:22 PM

    Refer to your own local laws on whether or not animals can be listed for adoption while on a bite quarantine, because it can vary. The ones who can be listed are a very specific thing.

    In our area the bite quarantine animals are removed from adoption - and public adoption spaces - and at our shelter we use a "Staff Only" sign to avoid any issues with onsite volunteers with varying levels of training. If the animal is temporarily waiting to go to foster (and not being removed from the adoption floor) we place "Currently Not Available for Adoption" and Staff Only. I have also seen color coding used with each enclosure marked with a color: green for friendly and anyone can handle, red or orange for staff only, etc. You can create your own designations that work for your shelter. This way everyone on site knows what this means but the public will not. This can also help everyone on site know what to expect from each particular animal and approach accordingly.  It's a great behavioral tool, because you can move an animal from red to yellow to green as they calm down or their behavior shifts over time.

    Also, a conversation-based adoptions process can facilitate visits with particular animals and reduce risk of interaction between the public and any animals that have special needs or challenges.



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    Michelle Flowers
    Foster Specialist
    Seattle Area Feline Rescue
    UW-AAB
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