Animal Welfare Professionals

We are a relatively small volunteer-run group but part of our program is TNR. We have volunteers who do trapping but also store traps to lend to community members. We use ShelterLuv and I feel like there must be a way to use SL to track who has the traps--both our regular TNR volunteers and when we lend them to community members. Our regular volunteers are already in our system but I am thinking of creating a form in SL for community members to submit a request that also has an agreement so they end up in SL as well. If anyone has done something similar in ShelterLuv can you share any tips/suggestions/what not to do, etc.? We would love to learn from all of you rather than recreating the wheel. Much appreciated!

#CommunityCatManagement

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Melody Karle
Cat Coordinator
Houston Cares Animal Rescue
TX
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You can add the traps to your shopping cart, and when someone signs them out you can add the trap to their cart.  

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Steve Marrero
Liberty County Animal Services
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Yes! Came here to say the same thing that Steve did. We add the person to Shelterluv and then keep a cart open with the traps in it. When they return the traps you can always go to your cart manager and take them out of the cart. There may be a better way to do it than that but that's how we've done it. TBF we don't lend out traps often so this may be a little annoying for higher volume.

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Hannah Soboleski
Executive Director
Binx's Home for Black Cats
Asheville, NC
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Hey Melody-Besides the method listed by the other commenters, you can also track traps with attributes, memos, or activities on the Field and Community Programs side of Shelterluv. You can read more about those options in the Help Center article linked here. (You have to be logged into your Shelterluv account to view the article) 

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Heather Duncan
Growth manager
Shelterluv
OH
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